Viewing Current Channel Assignments And Setting Locks; Viewing The Last Proposed Set Of Changes; Table 61: Channel Assignments; Table 62: Last Proposed Changes - D-Link DWL-3600AP Administrator's Manual

Unified Access Point Administrator's Guide
Viewing Current Channel Assignments and Setting Locks
The Current Channel Assignments section shows a list of all access points in the cluster by IP Address. The
display shows the band on which each AP is broadcasting (a/b/g/n), the current channel used by each AP, and
an option to lock an AP on its current radio channel so that it cannot be re‐assigned to another.
The following table provides details about Current Channel Assignments.
Field Description
IP Address Specifies the IP Address for the access point.
Radio Identifies the MAC address of the radio.
Band Indicates the band on which the access point is broadcasting.
Current Indicates the radio Channel on which this access point is currently broadcasting.
Status Shows whether the radio is up (on) or down (off).
Locked Click Locked to force the access point to remain on the current channel.
When Locked is selected (enabled) for an access point, automated channel management
plans will not re‐assign the AP to a different channel as a part of the optimization strategy.
Instead, APs with locked channels will be factored in as requirements for the plan.
If you click Apply, you will see that locked APs show the same channel for the Current
Channel and Proposed Channel fields. Locked APs will keep their current channels.
Viewing the Last Proposed Set of Changes
The Proposed Channel Assignments shows the last channel plan. The plan lists all access points in the cluster
by IP Address, and shows the current and proposed channels for each AP. Locked channels will not be re‐
assigned and the optimization of channel distribution among APs will take into account the fact that locked APs
must remain on their current channels. APs that are not locked may be assigned to different channels than they
were previously using, depending on the results of the plan.
Field Description
IP Address Specifies the IP Address for the access point.
Radio Indicates the radio channel on which this access point is currently broadcasting.
Proposed Channel Indicates the radio channel to which this access point would be re‐assigned if the
Channel Plan is executed.
D-Link
November 2011
Configuring and Viewing Channel Management Settings
Table 61: Channel Assignments
Table 62: Last Proposed Changes
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