Roaming Assist Policy

This chapter summarizes the Roaming Assist Policy commands in the CLI command structure.

By constantly monitoring a client's packets and the RSSI (received signal strength indicator) of a given client by a group of access points, decision can be made on the optimal access point to which the client needs to roam. Then forcefully direct the client to the optimal access point.

The threshold intervals are configurable and can be adjusted based on the client load.

Use the (config) instance to configure a roaming assist policy. To navigate to the roaming assist policy configuration instance, use the following commands:

<DEVICE> (config) roaming-assist-policy <ROAMING-ASSIST-POLICY-NAME>

nx9500-6C8809(config)roaming-assist-policy test
nx9500-6C8809(config-roaming-assist-policy-test)#?
Roaming Assist Mode commands:
  action               Configure action - action is deauth / log /
                       assisted-roam
  aggressiveness       Configure the roaming aggressiveness for a wireless
                       client
  detection-threshold  Configure the detection threshold - when exceeded,
                       client monitoring starts
  disassoc-time        Configure the disassociation time - time after which a
                       disassociation is sent
  handoff-count        Configure the handoff count - number of times client
                       can exceed handoff threshold
  handoff-threshold    Configure the handoff threshold - when exceeds an
                       action is taken.
  monitoring-interval  Configure the monitoring interval - interval at which
                       client monitoring occurs
  no                   Negate a command or set its defaults
  sampling-interval    Configure the sampling interval - interval at which
                       client rssi values are checked

  clrscr               Clears the display screen
  commit               Commit all changes made in this session
  end                  End current mode and change to EXEC mode
  exit                 End current mode and down to previous mode
  help                 Description of the interactive help system
  revert               Revert changes
  service              Service Commands
  show                 Show running system information
  write                Write running configuration to memory or terminal

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