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Alcatel-Lucent AOS-W 6.5.3.x - Verifying Your Mesh Network

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628| Secure Enterprise Mesh AOS-W 6.5.3.x| User Guide
use the Provisioning window in the WebUI.) To provision a remote mesh portal, see Configuring Remote Mesh
Portals (RMPs).
In the WebUI
1. Navigate to the Configuration > Wireless > AP Installation > Provisioning window. Select the AP to
provision for mesh and click Provision.
2. In the Master Discovery section, set the Master IP address as the switch IP address.
3. In the IP settings section, select Obtain IP Address Using DHCP.
4. In the AP List section, do the following:
n Configure the Mesh Role:
n To configure the AP as the mesh portal, select Mesh Portal.
n To configure the AP as a mesh point, select Mesh Point.
n Configure the Outdoor Parameters, if needed. The following parameters are available only if configuring
an outdoor AP:
n Latitude coordinates (degrees, minutes, seconds, north or south)
n Longitude coordinates (degrees, minutes, seconds, east or west)
n Altitude (in meters)
n Antenna bearing (horizontal coverage)
n Antenna tilt angle (optimum coverage)
The above parameters apply to all outdoor APs, not just outdoor APs configured for mesh.
5. Click Apply and Reboot. After the switch reboots, mesh cluster profiles are extracted from the AP group
and the AP name.
In the CLI
When you use the command-line interface to reprovision a mesh node, you may also provision other AP
settings.
Access the CLI in config mode and issue the following commands:
(host)(config) #provision-ap
read-bootinfo ap-name <name>
mesh-role {mesh-point|mesh-portal}
reprovision ap-name <name>
If you are provisioning an outdoor AP, you can also configure the following parameters:
(host)(config) #provision-ap
read-bootinfo ap-name <name>
mesh-role {mesh-point|mesh-portal}
a-ant-bearing <bearing>
a-ant-tilt-angle <angle>
g-ant-bearing <bearing>
g-ant-tilt-angle <angle>
altitude <altitude>
latitude <location>
longitude <location>
reprovision ap-name <name>
Verifying Your Mesh Network
To view a list of your Mesh APs via the WebUI, navigate to the one of the following windows:

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