D-Link DWS-3024 [58/266] Discovering access points and peer switches

D-Link Unified Access System Software User Manual

02/15/2011

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Table 6: AP VLAN Commands

DISCOVERING ACCESS POINTS AND PEER SWITCHES

The D-Link Unified Switch can discover, validate, authenticate, or monitor the following system devices:

• Peer Unified Switches

• D-Link Access Points

• Wireless clients

• Rogue APs

• Rogue wireless clients.

This section describes the procedures you use to discover D-Link Access Points and other D-Link Unified Switches. For

information about the discovery of wireless clients, see “” on page 142. For more information about discovering rogue

devices, see “Monitoring Rogue and RF Scan Access Points” on page 138.

In order for the Unified Switch to discover other WLAN devices and establish communication with them, the devices must

have their own IP address, must be able to find other WLAN devices, and must be compatible.

When the D-Link Unified Switch discovers and validates D-Link Access Points, the switch takes over the management of

the AP. The default AP Profile settings are listed in Appendix A “D-Link Unified Access System Default Settings”.

For information about how to change the AP Profile settings, see Chapter , <Link>“Configuring Access Point Settings” on

page 77.

Understanding the Discovery Methods

The Unified Switch and AP have multiple ways of discovering each other. The following examples describe different ways

the discovery can occur.

Table 7

Action Command

View management interface information,

including the VLAN ID

get management

Set the management VLAN ID set management vlan-id <1-4094>

View untagged VLAN information get untagged-vlan

Enable the untagged VLAN set untagged-vlan status up

Disable the untagged VLAN set untagged-vlan status down

Set the untagged VLAN ID set untagged-vlan vlan-id <1-4094>