Cisco Systems 2700

Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance Deployment Guide

OL-8478-01

Deployment and Design Requirements

Step14 Enter the building’s name, contact information, number of floors and basements, and dimension

information. Click OK. WCS is returned to the Monitor > Maps window.

Step15 Click the hyperlink associated with the newly created building.

Step16 On the Monitor > Maps > [Campus Name] > [Building Name] window, go to the drop-down menu and

choose New Floor Area. Click Go.

Step17 Input a name for the floor, a contact, a floor number, floor type, and height at which the access points

are installed and the path of the floor image. Click Next.

Note The Floor Type (RF Model) field allows for the characterization of the type of environment on that

specific floor. This RF Model is essentially an indication of the amount of RF signal attenuation likely

to be present on that floor. If the available models do not properly characterize a floor's makeup, details

on how to create RF models specific to a floor's attenuation characteristics are available in Creating and

Applying Calibration Models, page17.

Step18 If the floor area is a different dimension than the building, adjust floor dimensions by either making

numerical changes to the text fields under the Dimensions heading or by holding the Ctrl key and

clicking and dragging the blue box around the floor image. If the floor's location is offset from the upper

left corner of the building, change the placement of the floor within the building by either clicking and

dragging the blue box to the desired location or by altering the numerical values under the Coordinates

of top left corner heading (see Figure14). Afte r making changes to any numerical values, click Place.

Figure14 Repositioning Using Numerical Value Fields

Step19 To adjust the floor’s characteristics with WCS’s map editor, select the check box next to Launch Map

Editor after floor creation. An explanation of the map editor feature is outside the scope of this

document.

Step20 Click OK to accept the input floor characteristics.