Motorola Series Switch WS5100 - Manual (Page 21)

Overview 1-11
• Self Healing Actions — When an AP fails, actions are taken on the neighbor APs to do
self-healing.
Detector APs
Configure an AP in either – Data mode (the regular mode) or Detector mode.
In Detector mode, the AP scans all channels at a configurable rate and forwards received beacons the switch.
The switch uses the received information to establish a receive signal strength baseline over a period of time
and initiates self-healing procedures (if necessary).
Neighbor Configuration
Neighbor detect is a mechanism allowing an AP to detect its neighbors and their signal strength. This
enables you to verify your installation and configure it for self-healing when an AP fails.
Self Healing Actions
This mechanism allows you to assign a self healing action to an AP's neighbors, on a per-AP basis. If AP1
detects AP2 and AP3 as its neighbors, you can assign failure actions to AP2 and AP3 whenever AP1 fails.
You can assign four self healing actions:
• No action
• Decrease supported rates
• Increase Tx power
• Both 2 and 3.
You can also specify the Detector AP (AP2 or AP3) to stop detecting and adopt the RF settings of the failed
AP. For more information on configuring self healing, see Configuring Self Healing on page 5-46.
1.2.2.8 Wireless Capacity
Wireless capacity specifies the maximum numbers of MUs, access ports and wireless networks usable by a
given switch. Wireless capacity is largely independent of performance. Aggregate switch performance is
divided among the switch clients (MUs and access ports) to find the performance experienced by a given
user. Each switch platform is targeted at specific market segments, so the capacity of each platform is
chosen appropriately. Wireless switch capacity is measured by:
• Maximum number of WLANs per switch
• Maximum number of access ports per switch
• Maximum number of MUs per switch
• Maximum number of MUs per access port.
Up to 48 access ports are supported by the switch. The actual number of access ports adoptable by a switch
is defined on a per platform basis and will typically be lower than 48.
1.2.2.9 AP and MU Load Balancing
Fine tune a network to evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. The following
2 topics explain load balancing:
• MU Balancing Across Multiple APs
• AP Balancing Across Multiple Switches