Netgear WC7500-Wireless User Manual - Page 88

ProSAFE Wireless Controller View the Heat Map for a Deployed Floor Plan For an RF plan, you can assign access points and antennas to a building and floor. However, these access points and antennas are used only for the purpose of planning and are not actual access points and antennas. Access points display on the floor map of a deployed floor plan only if you assign them to the building and floor. For information about assigning access point to a building and floor, see Assign Access Points to Buildings, Floors, and Advanced Profile Groups on page 174. A heat map lets you view in real time, by WiFi frequency band, the signal strength and WiFi coverage for a floor of a building. The heat map shows the actual signal strengths that each access point is detecting from neighbor access points. IMPORTANT: For the heat map to provide realistic information, do the following: 1. Scale the floor plan accurately. 2. Place the different types of obstacles accurately on the floor map. 3. Move each virtual access point to the virtual location on the floor map that matches the actual physical location of the physical access point on the floor as closely as possible. The heat map displays the following information: • Signal strength and WiFi coverage, including weak coverage areas and coverage holes, indicated by color • Access points that are managed by the wireless controller • For each access point, the following real-time information: - Status in relation to the wireless controller (for example, Connected) - IP address - MAC address - For each WiFi band, the number of connected clients - For each WiFi band, the active channel - For each WiFi band, the transmission (output) power • Information for each antenna RF Planning and Deployment 88