Plan your Network

Use the Planning page under Manage to view and modify your network by adding locations, buildings, floors, and network zones. Place simulated devices to help determine where you might need to add or redistribute devices for the best wireless network capability. View heat map data and modify floor plans to include obstructions that can affect your wireless signal strength.

Note

Due to the complex factors that can affect radio signals in the real world, Extreme Networks cannot guarantee that actual radio coverage will match the estimated coverage results.

This page contains the following features:

• Search Maps helps you find a specific location in a large network. Enter the first few characters of a building or location name here to see a list of locations. The more characters you enter, the more precise the search results will be.
• Global View gives you an overall view all your network in the map. Beneath Global View, you will see the names of all locations, buildings, and floors. You can add multiple buildings to a location, and multiple floors to a building by importing floor plans or by drawing your own floor plan. For information about how to add locations, see Add a Location. For information about how to add buildings, see Add a Building. For information about how to add floors, see Add Floors.
• Location Maps: On the top-level map (the network location map) a building icon indicates your network location. The location map contains Import Map and Add Building buttons, an option to choose between map or satellite view, and a zoom option.
• Building Maps: Buildings maps display when you select a building in the hierarchy. A building map contains a floor plan of the building. Building maps contains Import Map and Add Floor buttons, an expand screen option, and a Details panel, which shows the number of devices, alarms, and active clients at this location. Select any blue text in the expanded Details panel to drill down for more specific network information. If there are multiple floors in a building, you can toggle between them to see floor plans and device deployment.
• Floor Maps: Floor maps display when you select the floor name in the hierarchy. A floor map should contain at least one floor perimeter and information about the types of walls and obstructions that appear on the floor. Floor map tabs let you plan and view your network deployments:
  • Edit Floor Plan: Upload a floor plan, and draw, change, or remove building parameters and walls. A details panel displays the number of devices installed on the floor.
  • Plan Devices: Manually or automatically add simulated and real devices, and change plan parameters for the floor.
  • View Heat Map: See coverage details for simulated and real devices on this floor. For more information, see View Heatmaps.
  • Zones: Create and name zones. Zones help you track roaming clients and enable you to identify groups of APs on floors where their locations must be clearly defined and differentiated from each other.
• Each item in the network hierarchy panel contains Delete, Move, Export, Clone, Edit, and Add tools.
• Use Network Summary to view the current status of each network hierarchy item.