Dell PowerConnect W-Airwave Manual

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16 | AirWave and Dell PowerConnect W-Series Integration Strategies Dell PowerConnect W-AirWave 7.5 | Best Practices GuideExample Use CasesThe following are example use cases of integration strategies:When to Use Enable StatsYou want to pilot AMWS and doesn't want to make major configuration changes to their infrastructure ormanage configuration from AirWave.See “Enable Stats Utilizing AirWave” on page 17.When to Use WMS Offload You have older Dell PowerConnect W-Series infrastructure in a master/local environment and their mastercontroller is fully taxed. Offloading WMS will increase the capacity of the master controller by offloadingstatistic gathering requirements and device classification coordination to AirWave. You want to use AirWave to distribute client and rogue device classification amongst multiple mastercontrollers in a master/local environment or in an All-Masters environment. See the following topics: “WMS Offload with AirWave” on page 18 “Understanding WMS Offload Impact on Dell PowerConnect W-Series Infrastructure” on page 22 “WMS Offload Details” on page 37When to Use RTLS A hospital wants to achieve very precise location accuracy (5 -15 feet) for their medical devices which areassociating to the WLAN. You want to locate items utilizing WiFi Tags. See “Leveraging RTLS to Increase Accuracy” on page 39.When to Define AirWave as a Trap Host You want to track IDS events within the AirWave UI. You are in the process of converting their older third-party WLAN devices to Dell PowerConnect W-Seriesdevices and want a unified IDS dashboard for all WLAN infrastructure. You want to relate Auth failures to a client device, AP, Group of APs, and controller. AirWave provides thisunique correlation capability. See “Define AirWave as a Trap Host using ArubaOS CLI” on page 18.When to use Channel Utilization You have a minimum version of ArubaOS 6.1.0.0 and AP-105 or AP-135.NOTE: Enable Stats still pushes a small subset of commands to the controllers via SSH.NOTE: RTLS can negatively impact your AirWave server's performance.