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Viewing Network Information

The Network link displays a page for viewing campuses, buildings, and floors within a network. You can click the Map link to view the site map. Click the List link to view the list of sites.

To view more information, perform the following actions:

  • To view the details of a network within a campus, select a campus, and click on a building within the selected campus.
  • To view the floor plan, select a floor. The floor plan displays the APs and associated clients on that floor.
  • To view information about the devices, select an AP or client.

Customizing the Floor Plan View

To customize your floor plan view, click the View tab on the right sliding panel. The View tab displays the list of campuses and the devices.

To increase the icon size of campus, click the arrow next to Campuses.

Viewing Campus, Sites, Buildings, and Floors

The VisualRF navigation menu on the right pane consists of the Properties, View, and Edit tabs. The following table describes the menu options available for network locations such as campus, building, and floor.

Table 1: VisualRF—Network Menu Options

Networks Property Tab

View Tab

Edit Tab

Displays the total number of APs, buildings, clients, and floors

Displays the following menu options:

  • Campuses
    • Displays the complete list of campus sites within your network. Click the links to view details of the campus sites.
    • Enables or disables the campus icons on the map.
    • Allows you to decrease or increase campus icon size on the map.
  • Labels—Shows or hides the labels assigned to campus sites.

Displays the following menu options:

  • Select All—Selects all campus sites. You can perform the following actions when the campus sites are selected:
    • Remove—Removes the selected sites.
    • Bill of Materials—Enables showing or hiding heatmap, speed, sensor coverage, wired range and other details.
    • Auto match planned devices—Automatically matches the devices that are planned for deployment and reloads the page.
  • Undo—Cancels the previous action.
  • New Floorplan—Allows you to create a new floor plan
  • Set Background—Allows you set a background image. You can upload a custom image or set a specific location from the world map as a background.
  • New Campus—Allows you create a new campus.
  • Auto-arrange Campuses—Arranges campus icons on the map.

Table 2: VisualRF—Campus Menu Options

Campus Property Tab

View Tab

Edit Tab

Displays the name of campus and the total number of APs in the campus site.

Displays the following menu options:

  • Buildings
    • Displays the complete list of buildings within the campus. Click the links to view the details of the buildings in the campus site.
    • Enables or disables the building icons on the map.
    • Allows you to decrease or increase the building icon size on the map
  • Labels—Shows or hides the labels assigned to buildings.

Displays the following menu options:

  • Select All—Selects all buildings. You can perform the following actions when buildings are selected:
    • Remove—Removes the selected buildings.
    • Navigate—Navigates to the building.
    • Bill of Materials—Enables showing or hiding heatmap, speed, sensor coverage, wired range and other details.
    • Auto match planned devices—Automatically matches the devices that are planned for deployment and reloads the page.
  • Export Floor Plans—Exports the floor plan of a specific floor.
  • Undo—Cancels the previous action
  • New Floorplan—Allows you to create a new floor plan.
  • Set Background—Allows you set a background image. You can upload a custom image or set a specific location from the world map as a background.
  • New Building—Allows you to create a new building.
  • Auto-arrange Buildings—Arranges building cons on the map.

Table 3: VisualRF—Building Menu Options

Building Property Tab

View Tab

Edit Tab

Displays the name and location details of the building, and the total number of floors and APs in the building.

Displays the complete list of floors in the building. Click the links to view the floor plan of the floors in the building.

 

Displays the following menu options:

  • Select All—Selects all floors. You can perform the following actions when floors are selected:
    • Remove—Removes the selected buildings.
    • Navigate—Navigates to the building.
    • Bill of Materials—Enables showing or hiding heatmap, speed, sensor coverage, wired range and other details.
    • Auto match planned devices—Automatically matches the devices that are planned for deployment and reloads the page.
    • Duplicate—Creates a duplicate of the selected floor.
  • Export Floor Plans—Exports the floor plan of a specific floor.
  • Undo—Cancels the previous action.
  • New Floorplan—Allows you to create a new floor plan.

Table 4: VisualRF—Floor Menu Options

Property Tab

View Tab

Edit Tab

Displays the floor details, total number of APs on the floor, and clients..

The Advanced option allows you to set the values to indicate if the environment is related to an office space, cubicles, offices, or concrete.

 

Displays the following menu options:

  • Devices—Displays APs, and Clients devices detected on the floor.
  • AP Overlay—Shows the heatmap for the current and adjacent floors.
    • Floor Plan Features—Displays the following details:
    • Grid Lines—Allows you to change the grid size and color.
    • Labels—Shows or hides the labels tagged to the devices on the floor.
    • Origin—To ensure that multi-floor heatmaps display properly, ensure that your floor plans are vertically aligned. VisualRF uses the origination point for this alignment. By default, the origin appears in the upper left corner of the floor plan. You can drag and drop the origin point to the correct position.
    • Regions—Displays the regions defined within a floor plan. For example, you can define two small regions of high density clients within a larger floor plan with lower client density.
    • Walls—Displays walls drawn on the floor.

Displays the following menu options:

  • Drawing—Allows you to draw a region or wall for the floor.
  • Devices—Allows you to add and delete the already deployed or planned devices.
  • Actions—Displays the following options:
    • Select All—Selects all floors.
    • Export Floor Plans—Exports the floor plan of a specific floor.
    • Undo—Cancels the previous action.
    • New Floorplan—Allows you to create a new floor plan.
    • Auto Match Planned Devices—Automatically matches the devices that are planned for deployment and reloads the page.
    • Refresh—Refreshes the page.

Viewing AP Overlay Information

The AP Heatmap overlay displays information for adjacent floors to determine how the bleed through from adjacent floors affects the viewed floor. Besides the current floor, you can view all floors, or data from APs located on the floor above or below.

The AP Overlay > Heatmap option allows you to view details of signal cutoff, and for each radio bandBand refers to a specified range of frequencies of electromagnetic radiation. and floors. The Heatmap option also allows you to change the overlay display to grid.

Viewing Client Devices

VisualRF displays only associated client devices. To view the client devices on a floor plan, navigate to the floor plan and click the Devices > Clients in the View tab. Clicking on Clients shows or hides the client icons on the floor plan. The client device presence is marked with symbol of a mobile phone. The floor plan also shows the Instant AP to which the client device is associated.