5/26/05 Configuring Location Appliances
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Editing Location Appliance Polling ParametersEditing Location Appliance Polling Parameters
After adding a Cisco 2700 Series Location Appliance (location appliance) to the Cisco WCS database,
you can modify the independent Client, Rogue Access Point, Asset Tag, and Statistics polling periods
that the location appliance uses to poll its associated Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers. Note that this is
independent of the number of times Cisco WCS users may request a data refresh from the location
appliance.
1. In the Cisco WCS interface, select LOCATE to display the All Location Appliances page.
2. Click the desired Server Name to have Cisco WCS display the Location Appliance > General
Properties > <LocAppliance Name> page.
3. In the left navigation bar, click Polling Parameters to have Cisco WCS display the Location
Appliance > Polling Parameters > <LocAppliance Name> page.
4. Set the following:
-Retry Count: Enter the number of times to retry a polling cycle between 1 and 99999,
default = 3. The Retry Count generally does not need to be changed from the default.
-Timeout: Enter the number of seconds for a polling timeout between 1 and 99999,
default = 5 seconds. The Timeout generally does not need to be changed from the
default.
-Client Station Polling and Interval: Select the check box to turn Polling on, and
enter the number of seconds between Client polling attempts between 1 and 99999,
default = Polling disabled and a 300 second interval. You may want to leave Client
Polling off, and you may want to change the Polling Interval to a shorter or longer value
for more or less granular data collection, respectively.
Note that the Polling Interval is the period between the end of a preceding polling cycle
and the beginning of the next polling cycle. That is, if the polling cycles take five
minutes to complete, and the Polling Interval is ten minutes, the time between the start
of polling cycles is fifteen minutes.
-Rogue AP Polling and Interval: Select the check box to turn Polling on, and enter
the number of seconds between rogue access point polling attempts between 1 and
99999, default = disabled and a 600 second interval. You may want to leave rogue
access point Polling off, and you may want to change the Polling Interval to a shorter or
longer value for more or less granular data collection, respectively.
Note that the Polling Interval is the period between the end of a preceding polling cycle
and the beginning of the next polling cycle. That is, if the polling cycles take five
minutes to complete, and the Polling Interval is ten minutes, the time between the start
of polling cycles is fifteen minutes.
-Asset Tag Polling and Interval: Select the check box to turn Polling on, and enter
the number of seconds between Asset Tag polling attempts between 1 and 99999,
default = disabled and a 600 second interval. You may want to leave Asset Tag Polling
off, and you may want to change the Polling Interval to a shorter or longer value for
more or less granular data collection, respectively.
Note that the Polling Interval is the period between the end of a preceding polling cycle
and the beginning of the next polling cycle. That is, if the polling cycles take five
minutes to complete, and the Polling Interval is ten minutes, the time between the start
of polling cycles is fifteen minutes.
Note: Before the location appliance can collect any data, it must be associated with
one or more Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers as described in Assigning Controllers to
Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers.