Dell 6.2 Configuring Local WMS Settings, Managing the WMS Database

Parameter Description
StationAgeout Interval Theam ount of time, in minutes, that a cl ient is unseen by any probes
beforeit is deleted from the database. Enter 0 to disable ageout.
Default:30 minutes
Enable StatisticsUpdate in DB Enablesor di sablesstatistics update in the database.
Default:enabled
Collect Stat Enablescol lection of statistics(up to 25,000entries) on the master
controller for monitored APs and clients. This only appl ies when MMS is
notconfigured.
Default:disabled
LearnSystem Wired Mac Enable or disable “learning” of wired MACs at thecontroll er.
Default:disabled
PropogateWi red Mac Enables the propagation ofthe gateway wired MAC i nformation.
Default:enabled
MarkNeighbor APsas Persistent Neighbor
APs
Enablesor di sablesAPs that are marked as neighbor from being aged out.
Default:enabled
LearnAPs Enablesor disablesAP learning. Learning affects thew ay APs are
classified.
Default:disabled
In the CLI
Use the followingco mmandsto c onfigureWMS via the CLI. The parameters in this command are described in
detail in Table 109.
wms general
adhoc-ap-ageout-interval <minutes> |ap-ageout-interval <minutes> | collect-stats
{disable|enable} | learn-ap {enable|disable} | learn-system-wired-macs |
persistent-neighbor {enable|disable} | poll-interval <milliseconds> |
poll-retries <number> | propagate-wired-macs {enable|disable} | sta-ageout-interval
<minutes> | stat-update {enable|disable}
Configuring Local WMS Settings
You can also uset heCLI to define local WMS system settings for the maximum numberof APs and client stati ons.
NOTE:Use this command wi thcaution. Increasingthe li mit will cause an increase in usage in the memory by WMS. In general,
eachentry wil l consume about 500bytes of memory. If the settingi sbum ped up by2000, then it will cause an increase in W MS
memory usage by 1MB
(host) (config) #wms-local system max-threshold <max-threshold>
Managing the WMS Database
The WMSprocess i nteracts with all the air monitor (AM) processes in the network. When WMSreceives an event
message froman AM, the WMS process will save the event information along with the BSSID of the AP that
generatedthe event in the WMS database. Use the following commands in Enable mode to manage theWMS
database.
The wms export-db command exportst hespeci fiedfi leas an ASCII text file into the WMS database.
(host) #wms export-db database <file>
The wms import-db commandi mports the specified filei nto the WMSdatabase:
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