Motorola PTP 200 (OFDM, PMP 100, PMP 400, PTP 100 (FSK) manual Region Code as, Test with MIR

Release 11.0 Release Notes and User Guide Supplement

Products	Description	Discussion and Recommendations
Affected
All	Managing module	The best security practice is to be aware a factory unit comes with root
	accounts and	and admin accounts, to plan your approach to accounts, and set
	passwords (none)	passwords for all accounts.
		A module that either is fresh from the factory or has been operator-reset to
		factory defaults has two user accounts: root and admin, both with
		ADMINISTRATOR level permissions.
		To secure a module, access the Account => Change Users Password tab
		and add a password to each of these accounts. Adding a password to only
		one account still leaves the other open. Furthermore, an account without a
		password will accept any password potentially giving the impression the
		unit is protected when it isn’t.
		Alternatively, an operator’s practices may be to delete the admin account
		or delete the root account and replace them with their own account(s). By
		default, Prizm, One Point Wireless Manager and CNUT use the root
		account to manage the module, so if you delete root accounts on
		modules you will need to make coordinated changes to Prizm, Wireless
		Manager, and CNUT to access them with your own accounts.
All	Use 16 or fewer	SNMP doesn’t do data-entry checking, so more than 16 characters may be
	alphanumeric	entered, but only 16 characters will be saved and displayed.
	characters in user
	account names,
	passwords, and
	Community
	Strings (7808)
AP and	Timed Spectrum	Values of Timed Spectrum Analyzer duration and Spectrum Analysis
SM	Analyzer settings	on Boot get saved by clicking any button on the page, not just when
	anomaly (7442)	clicking Save Changes or Start Time Spectrum Analysis (which is
		typical operation for other pages).
AP and	Best Practice is to	When an SM registers to an AP, it assumes the Region Code and
SM	set SM to same	associated parameters of the AP, disregarding any Region code set in the
	Region Code as	SM by you. However, the best practice is still for you to set a Region Code
	AP (none)	in the SM so that displayed options are consistent with the region.
All	Details on pinging	A ping size larger than 1494 bytes to a radio will time out and fail.
	Canopy modules	However, a ping of greater than 1494 bytes to a system that is behind a
	(4831)	radio typically succeeds. To gain an accurate view of latency, ping through
		the radio to a system beyond. Canopy transports ping traffic with the same
		priority as all transport traffic, but may handle a direct ping with lower
		priority when running under load.
SM	AP may be listed	To help during aiming, the SM’s Tools > AP Evaluation tab maintains AP
	twice in SM’s AP	entries for 15 minutes. If the frequency of an AP is changed, for 15
	Evaluation tab	minutes the AP is listed twice in the AP Evaluation tab, once with the
	(5298)	former frequency, and once with the new one.
AP and	When using Link	To see the effects of MIR capping, you can run a link test with MIR
SM	Test with MIR,	enabled. To get meaningful results, set Link Test with MIR to Enabled on
	need to set both	the Tools => Link Capacity Test tab in both the SM and the AP. When it is
	ends (4844, 2756)	enabled on only one end, results are misleading.
		After you run perform a link test with MIR capping enabled, consider
		immediately changing Link Test with MIR to Disabled in both the SM and
		the AP, to avoid mistakenly capping only one end of the link test.

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