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82 Industrial Ethernet Wireless LAN RLM Manager, CP 1515 Manager
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When roaming throughout a wireless network environment with your
CP1515 Manager station, you will be able to identify areas that may not
have adequate coverage, or that suffer from in-band interference from other
(wireless) equipment such as security gates, microwave ovens or photo
copiers.
To start the site monitor, select 6LWH0RQLWRU in the $GYDQFHG menu in the
main CP1515 Manager window. This will display the window pictured in
Figure 15Site Monitor window.
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•6LWH0RQLWRU tab - the primary tab to monitor the performance of your
wireless network (see Site Monitor Tab (page 83)).
•6HOHFWLRQ tab - enables you to scan for neighboring SIMATIC NET IWL
networks and select such networks for monitoring (see Selection Tab
(page 86)).
•/RJ6HWWLQJV tab - allows you to enable, disable or configure the site
monitor logging options (see Logging Measurement Data (page 92)).
��$3QDPHV tab - allows you to create user-defined Access Point RLM
names for easy identification of Access Points RLMs in the Site Monitor
window (see AP Names Tab (page 90)).
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The Site Monitor option only works in combination with Access
Points RLMs. When you select this option in a Peer-to-Peer
workgroup environment1
, the Site Monitor window will not start
1. Independent networks never include Access Points RLMs (see also chapter 2W ireless
Configurations)