When roaming throughout a wireless network environment with your
CP 1515 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
main CP 1515 Manager window. This will display the window pictured in
Figure 15 Site Monitor
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wireless network (see
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networks and select such networks for monitoring (see
(page
86)).
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monitor logging options (see
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names for easy identification of Access Points RLMs in the Site Monitor
window (see
i
The Site Monitor option only works in combination with Access
Points RLMs. When you select this option in a Peer-to-Peer
workgroup environment
1. Independent networks never include Access Points RLMs (see also chapter
Configurations)
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window.
tab - the primary tab to monitor the performance of your
Site Monitor Tab (page
tab - enables you to scan for neighboring SIMATIC NET IWL
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tab - allows you to enable, disable or configure the site
tab - allows you to create user-defined Access Point RLM
AP Names Tab (page
Industrial Ethernet Wireless LAN RLM Manager, CP 1515 Manager
in the
Logging Measurement Data (page
90)).
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, the Site Monitor window will not start
menu in the
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Selection Tab
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