Auto-Placement rules for APs and switches are applied when APs or switches are
manually added/imported into a system using the following conditions:
If a rule exists, the AP or
switch is moved into the predetermined scope level.
If no rule exists, the AP or
switch is moved into the Unplaced Devices folder.
Adopted APs discovered from a
controller but without an applicable auto-placement rule are placed in the same
folder as the controller.
If no Auto-Placement rules
criteria match the device, it will be placed in the Unplaced Devices
folder.
IP based placement uses a single
IP address for each device. The selected IP address for Auto-Placement is the
first available address on the following ordered list of IP addresses learned by
AirDefense.
The first IP address on
the list is the Devices Management IP Address. This is the IP address
that AirDefense
uses to communicate with the device. Due to the use of NAT in the
network, this IP address may be different than the actual configured IP
address of the device.
The second IP address is
the address that the switch provides to AirDefense for the AP. In
adaptive or adopted mode where the AP is discovered through the switch,
the system will use the IP address that the switch has provided for the
AP. This IP address is only used by AirDefense for this purpose
and is not saved by AirDefense. It is not used as
a configured or managed IP address for the device, and it will not be
displayed by AirDefense.
The switch's IP address
will be used for Auto-Placement of the AP if the previous two IP
addresses are not available. The switch's management address is the IP
address that is used by AirDefense to communicate with
the switch. It may NOT be the switch's configured IP address.
Note
Before you can define any
Auto-Placement rules, the network tree must already be configured.
