Alcatel-Lucent AOS-W 6.5.3.x - RF Management

558| Access Points AOS-W 6.5.3.x| User Guide
Support for BLE-based Asset Tracking
Starting with AOS-W 6.5.2.0, APs can monitor BLE asset tags to track the location of time-sensitive, high-value
assets embedded with BLE tags.
BLE tags are located through the following steps:
1. AP beacons scan the network for BLE tags.
2. When a tag is detected, the AP beacon sends information about the tag to the AP, including the MAC
address and RSSI of the tag. This data is maintained in a list by the BLE daemon process on the AP.
3. The list of tags is sent from the BLE daemon process on the AP to the BLE relay process on the switch.
4. The switch opens a secure websocket connection with the designated websocket endpoint on the
management server, such as the Meridian editor.
5. After receiving the list of tags from the switch, the management server calculates the location of each tag by
triangulating the tag’s RSSI data on a floor plan.
Each BLEtag must be heard by at least three APbeacons for triangulation.
In the CLI
Execute the following commands in the CLI to view the list of BLE tags discovered and reported by the AP.
(host) #show ap debug ble-table ap-name <ap_name> assettags
(host) #show ap debug ble-tag-report ap-name <ap-name>
Execute the following commands in the CLI to manage BLE tag reporting and logging.
(host) #ble_relay mgmt-server type ws <ws-endpoint>
(host) #ble_relay set-attr
tag-logging <tag-logging>
ws-connect <ws-connect>
ws-loglvl <ws-loglvl>
(host) #show ble_relay disp-attr all
Execute the following command in the CLI to view BLE tag data:
(host) #show ble_relay tag-report
RF Management
802.11a and 802.11g RF Management Profiles
The two 802.11a and 802.11g RF management profiles for an AP configure its 802.11a (5 Ghz) and 802.11b/g
(2.4 GHz) radio settings. You can either use the “default” version of each profile, or create a new 802.11a or
802.11g profile using the procedures below. Each RF management radio profile includes a reference to an
Adaptive Radio Management (ARM) profile. If you would like the ARM feature to dynamically select the best
channel and transmission power for the radio, verify that the RF management profile references an active and
enabled ARM profile. It can be useful to set the Max Tx EIRP parameter in the ARM profile to 127 (the
maximum power level permissible) until it determines the signal-to-noise radio on the links. If ARM is active, the
Max Tx EIRP can also be set to 127 to allow maximum power levels.
If you want to manually select a channel for each AP group, create separate 802.11a and 802.11g profiles for
each AP group and assign a different transmission channel for each profile. For example, one AP group could
have an 802.11a profile that uses channel 36 and an 802.11g profile that uses channel 11, and another AP
group could have an 802.11a profile that uses channel 40 and an 802.11g profile that uses channel 9.
With the implementation of the high-throughput 802.11n standard, 40 MHz channels were added in addition
to the existing 20 MHz channel options. Available 20 MHz and 40 MHz channels are dependent on the country