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Wireless Clients

Describing Cisco Aironet WLAN Client Adaptors

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Cisco ADU and ACAU Overview

Sensitivity: -94 dBm at 1Mb/s (802.11b), -87 dBm at 6 Mb/s (802.11a), power 100 mW max

802.11 a/b/g (not 802.11n)

Support 802.1X, including Cisco LEAP, EAP-FAST, PEAP-GTC, PEAP-MSCHAPv2), and EAP-TLS, WPA, WPA2, MFP, AES, TKIP

Best managed with the Cisco ADU and ACAU, tools dedicated to managing Cisco WLAN adapters

AIR-CB21AG-X-K9 AIR-PI21AG-X-K9

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Installing the Cisco ADUPlug and play install, three install options

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Installing Site Survey Utility

The Cisco Aironet Site

Survey Utility is an additional tool

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Using the Cisco ADU or a Third-Party Tool

Use the ADU or something else to manage your Cisco

WLAN adapter?

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Detecting the Adapter and Rebooting

Insert the adapter before or during install

Rebooting is recommended

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Cisco ADU Current Status Page

The ASTU shows basic information

Select to open the ADU GUI

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Advanced Information

Display can be changed

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Cisco ADU Profile Manager

To create a profile from a detected network, click Scan

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Cisco ADU: Creating Profiles

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Cisco ADU: Profile Security

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Cisco ADU: Advanced Parameters

Which radio

is this SSID on?

Are you in PSP or CAM mode?

Ad hoc or

infrastructure?

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Cisco ADU: Other Tools—Diagnostic

Diagnostic tab gives more detailedinformation on your adapter and

your connection. Also used for monitoring and troubleshooting.

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Cisco ADU: Other Tools—Diagnostic (Cont.)In the client managed test, thenetwork connectivity is tested fromthe WLAN adapter, starting fromthe driver installation up to network and authentication test, and through card insertion, enable,radio and association tests.

There is also a networkmanaged test, where the testis conducted from the WLC,

the client being passive. Thistests how the networks sees

you, rather than how you see it.

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Cisco Aironet Site Survey Utility

Action / options

The utility gives you dynamic representation of your connectionto the wireless network.It displays AP MAC address, channel,RSSI, noise level, SNR, speed ofyour connection.From this the connection quality is shown (green/excellent, yellow/good,orange/fair, red/poor).

From Action>Enable Proximity Beeper, get adetection beep when getting closer to the AP.From Action>Option, select what triggers the

proximity beeper.

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Cisco Aironet Site Survey Utility: Thresholds

From Threshold>Configure Thresholds, determine how you

want to log events detected by the utility. They can be changes in the association, connection (or loss) to

an URL, RSSI, noise, SNR, or speed thresholds. This allows you

to determine physical limits of your cells. To avoid too many entries in

the logs, you can configure the minimum duration of an event

worth noticing.

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Cisco Aironet Site Survey Utility: AP Scan List

The AP scan list reports all the APs detected by your adapter, not for you to pick one to associate to, but to analyze the APs around the adapters and determine their physical characteristics.

You can interrupt the scanning process to stay on one channel, log the list.

Accumulate writes all the detected APs over time, without deleting those not in

range anymore.

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Click AP Scanning>Configure to determine how often the AP list would

be logged automatically, and/or in which case a log entry should be

written.

Cisco Aironet Site Survey Utility: AP Scan List (Cont.)

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Cisco Aironet Configuration Administration Utility

ADU behaviour Profiles creation

The ACAU allows the network administrator to centrally create profiles to be deployed to clients’ ADUs, and to configure how the ADU should be installed and configured in automated deployments(global settings)

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Cisco Aironet Configuration Administration Utility: Profile Management

Creating a profile from the ACAU isvery similar to the same process on

the ADU, general, security, advancedtabs are the same.

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Setup settings

User settings

Profiles settings

ATSU settings

File >Save As

The global settings will affect the ADUbehavior on the client machine.

Profiles and global settings will be saved as CiscoAdminConfig.dat file, which, put in

the same directory as the ADU installer, willforce a specific install or repair of the

software.

Cisco ACAU: Global Settings

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Summary

The Cisco ADU is the tool to manage Cisco wireless cards.

Its installation is straightforward and requires a reboot.

The Cisco ADU main page shows the client IP address, and selecting the Advanced button displays advanced status information about the client.

Profiles define configuration and security parameters to connect to the different WLANs.

The advanced statistics screen is predominantly used for troubleshooting and provides transmit and receive statistics as well as encryption error information.

The Cisco ADU also launches a diagnostic tool.

The Site Survey Utility provides detailed information on the connection, along with troubleshooting features.

The Cisco ACAU is an administration tool for the Cisco ADU.

It is used to create and deploy profiles and Cisco ADU configurations.

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