Avaya 3600 - Manual (Page 41)

Avaya, Inc. Configuration and Administration—AVAYA 3616/3620/3626 WT
Avaya CCMS IP, Avaya Call Server, with Avaya 4612 IP Telephone Emulation
21-300352, Issue 2, July 2005 Page 41
10. Diagnostic Tools
Run Site Survey
,
Diagnostic Mode
and
Syslog Mode
are three diagnostic tools provided to assist the
WLAN administrator in evaluating the functioning of the WT and the system surrounding it.
Diagnostic Tools are enabled in the Admin menu.
10.1 Run Site Survey
Site Survey is used to evaluate the facility coverage before certifying that an installation is complete. It
can also be used at any time to evaluate coverage by testing signal strength, to gain information about
an AP, and to scan an area to look for all APs regardless of ESSID. The information available through
site survey includes:
• ESSID
• Beacon Interval
• Information regarding support of 802.11d, 802.11g, 802.11h, and other 802.11 amendment
standards as required.
• Current security configuration
Start the site survey by selecting
Run Site Survey
from the Admin menu. The mode starts immediately.
When the test is started, it is by default in “single ESSID” mode. When the
Any
soft key is pressed
(softkey A), all APs, regardless of ESSID are displayed, and the softkey changes to say
MyID
. Pressing
the
MyID
soft key will revert to the “single ESSID” mode and change the softkey back to
Any
.
The display would look like the following for the multiple AP mode.
1 1 1 1 1 1 - 2 2 3 3 4 4 4
1 1 1 1 1 1 - 2 2 3 3 4 4 4
1 1 1 1 1 1 - 2 2 3 3 4 4 4
1 1 1 1 1 1 - 2 2 3 3 4 4 4
A n y D e t l
Where:
• 111111 = The last three octets of the on-air MAC address for a discovered AP.
• 22 = The signal strength for the specified AP.
• 33 = The channel number of the specified AP.
• 444 = The beacon interval configured on the specified AP.
• Any/MyID = Softkey to toggle between “single ESSID” and “any ESSID” mode.
• Detl/Smry = Softkey to toggle between the multiple AP (summary) display, and the single
(detail) displays for each AP.
The following screen shows how the display would look when there are three APs configured with an
ESSID that matches that of the WT. The first has a signal strength of –28dbm, is configured on
channel 2, with a beacon interval of 100ms. The second has a signal strength of –48dbm, is configured
on channel 6, with a beacon interval of 200ms. The third has a signal strength of –56dbm, is
configured on channel 11 with a beacon interval of 100ms.