D-Link DWS-4026 [654/741] Checking the location of an ap or client

VisualizingtheWirelessNetwork

D-Link UnifiedWiredandWirelessAccessSystem

November2011 Page654

D‐LinkUWSUserManual

ManuallyGraphingtheComponents

YoumustmanuallyplaceeachUnifiedSwitchonthegraphbecausetheswitchdoesnotcontainanyradios.

ClicktheIPaddressoftheswitchintheSwitcheswindowforungraphedcomponentsanddragittoits

approximatelocationonthegraph.Whenyoureleasethemousebutton,aniconthatre

presentstheswitch

appearsonthegraph.

Figure422:GraphingaSwitch

ForManagedAPs,RFScanAPs,anddetectedclients,youcanmanuallydrag‐and‐dropeachdevicetoits

approximatelocationonthegraph,oryoucanusetheDeviceLocatorfeaturetodeterminetheprobable

location.

Toremoveaco

mponentfromthegraph,right‐clickthecomponentandselectEdit>Un‐Graph.Thecomponent

returnstotheappropriatewindowintheungraphedcomponentsarea.

CheckingtheLocationofanAPorClient

TotriggertheOn‐DemandLocationsearchforaspecificdevicethatislocatedonthegraph,right‐clickthe

deviceandselecttheCommand>CheckLocationoption.Tofindthelocationofanungrapheddevice,right‐

clicktheMACaddressofthedeviceandselecttheCommand>CheckLo

cationoption.Youcanalsousethe

Locate>TargetAccessPointorLocate>TargetClientmenuoptionstocheckthelocationofagraphedor

ungraphedAPorclient.

Afteryouspecifyadevicetolocate,theOn‐DemandLocationTriggerwindowappears.Ifyouright‐clickeda

deviceorMA

Caddress,thewindowisprepopulatedwiththeappropriateinformation,asshowninFigure423.

IfyouusedtheLocatemenu,selecttheMACaddressofthedevicefromtheavailablemenu.

Figure423:On‐DemandLocationSearchWindow