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Copyright © smartBridges Pte Ltd. All Rights Reserved. u n w i r i n g o u r w o r l d T M airClient™ Nexus PRO TOT AL sB3412 User Guid e Version 1.
Page 2 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide TABLE OF CONTENTS About This Document .................................................................................... .....................
Page 3 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide 8.1.3 NTP Time Ser ver Setup ...................................................................................... 6 4 8.2 P ROFILE M ANAGER ..
Page 4 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide About This Document This User Gu ide is for th e networ king professional who configures and m anages the smartBridge s’ Intelligent Nexus Platform of wireless client device, the airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL (sB3412).
Page 5 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide Technical Supp ort Center Comprehensive technical sup port b y dedicated smar tBridges e ngineers is a vailable t o all customers through t he smartB ridges s upport c enter website.
Page 6 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide 1. Intr oduction This User Guide provides information on how to set-up and deploy the airClient Nexus PRO TOTAL unit. A web-based management tool is provided to assist the user to configure the aCNPT.
Page 7 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide 1.2. Checklists Pre-Installation Check list for airClient Nexus PR O TOTAL Organization Name/.
Page 8 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide No Parameters Units Site A Site B 21 Type of external cable type LMR 400/LMR600/ 22 Length of.
Page 9 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide Post-Installation Check list for aCNPT Organization Name/Site Name Address City State Zip Cod.
Page 10 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide Checklist No Parameters Units Site A S ite B 1 Check the crimping of the Ethernet cable at b.
Page 11 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide 2. aCNPT Configuration The airClient Nexus PRO TOTAL ca n work in one of three modes: Brid ge, Router and NAT. The procedures for configuring the various parameters in each mode are outlined in this chapter.
Page 12 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide Figure 2-2 License Agreement Page Figure 2-3 aCNPT Summary Information Page.
Page 13 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide The page information descriptions are provided in the table below: Table 2-1 Description of Parameters 2.2. Web GUI Admi nistrator Passw ord Change By default the administrator password is smartBridges (case sensitive).
Page 14 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide 2.3. Using the Confi guration Pa ges The aCNPT Nexus configuration system c omprises several pages for configuring each parameter.
Page 15 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide Menu Item Menu Sub-items Description Bridge Configuration Displays the bridge address, generic bridge port table, spanning t ree port table for ports ETH A , ETH B, Radio A.
Page 16 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide Security Security: Allows user to set the WEP Keys and to choose between Open/Shared System m odes of authentication.
Page 17 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide Operational mode: Allows the User to s et the Radio Operational mode. Profile Manager Save Profile: Allows user to define and save up to three device operating profiles for easy device management.
Page 18 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide 2.4. Device Mode Con figuration The device operational mode is displayed at the top right hand corner of each page. The Dev ice Mode Configuration allows the user to configure the aCNPT in Bridge, Router and NAT.
Page 19 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide 2.5. aCNPT Route r/NAT to aC NPT Bridge Follow the steps below to change aCNPT Router/NAT mode to aCNPT Bridge Mode 1. Go to ‘Tools | System Configuration’ drop down menu.
Page 20 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide 2.6. aCNPT Bridge to aCNPT Rout er/NAT Follow the steps below to change aCNPT Bridge mode to aCNPT Router/NAT mode 1. Go to ‘Tools | System Configuration’ drop down menu.
Page 21 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide 2.7. aCNPT Bridge Configuration The aCNPT in B ridge mo de can associate only with a smartBridges airPoint access point in bridge mode (SB3210) as t hey both use WDS link implementation.
Page 22 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide 2.7.2. Wireless Configuration The wireless parameters need to be configured t o all ow the aCNPT in Bridge mode to as sociate with an airPoint™ (sB3210) in Bridge mode.
Page 23 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide Figure 2-11 Radio Main (Wireless Settings Page) - Associated Click on ‘ Status ’ to view the association link-status graph.
Page 24 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide 2.7.3. Bridge Co nfiguration In Brid ge mode the aC NPT u nit a cts as a transparent bridge between the Radio and the Ethernet interfaces. The figure below shows the bridge configuration and the table of bridge forwarding information.
Page 25 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide 2.7.5. STP Sett ings Configuration STP is disabled by default.
Page 26 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide Ethernet port (ETH B) priority 128 0-255 The preferenc e that STP gives to this port relative to the other ports for forwarding t raffic out of the spanning tree.
Page 27 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide 10. Enter the values of Ethernet Port Priority and/or Port Path Cost for ETHA. 11. Enter the values of Ethernet Port Priority and/or Port Path Cost for ETHB.
Page 28 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide 2.8. aCNPT Router/ NAT Configura tion The aCNPT unit can also be configured in Router or NAT mode which behaves like Infrastructure mode. The procedures for c onfiguring the parameters in Router/NAT mode are given below.
Page 29 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide 2.8.2. Wireless Configuration The wireless parameters need to be configured to allow t he aCNPT Router/NAT unit to associate with an airPoint or any third party access point.
Page 30 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide Figure 2-17 aCNPT Router Wireless Association Settings Click on ‘ Status ’ to view the association link-status graph.
Page 31 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide Figure 2-19 Link status Page Noise Floor is t he measure of the signal created from t he sum of all the nois e sources and unwanted signals within a measurement system.
Page 32 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide 6. Enter DNS Server IP address(es). 7. Click on the ’Apply Changes’ to change the settings. Note : The system will validate the input parameters and notif y users of invalid entries.
Page 33 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide 2.8.4. DHCP Re lay Configurations If the user has a DHCP Server, the aCNPT Router can be c onfigured as a DHCP Relay agent of the DHCP Server for IP address assignment.
Page 34 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide 2.8.5. Routing Ta ble The aCNPT Router web-interface pr ovides viewing of the routes and allo ws for adding and deleting of the static routes for the aCNPT Router mode only.
Page 35 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide Figure 2-24 Adding Static Route 2.8.6. Wireless Se ttings Management The Radio Configuration Main page c an be accessed from the Radio menu. The contents will be slightly different for each mode, Bridge, Router or NAT.
Page 36 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide 2.8.7. Wireless Settings The following table summarizes the information for the wireless settings. Table 2-4 Wireless Settings Page Items Descriptions SSID This is the current SSID.
Page 37 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide 2.8.8. Securit y The different types of Security that can be configured on a Remote Router/NAT are as follows: 1. WEP Only 2. WPA –RADIUS 3. WPA –PSK 4.
Page 38 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide 4. Choose a WEP Key Size (64 Bits or 128 Bits) from the pull-down list. WEP key length is 10 characters for 64 Bits and 26 characters for 128 Bits.
Page 39 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide Figure: 2-27 Configuring WPA-PSK Table 2-6 WPA Descriptions Page Items Descriptions WPA-PSK .
Page 40 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide 3. Enter the User id and the Password in the dialog box provided 4. In order to validate the certificates, click on the validate c ertificate radio button ( ).
Page 41 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide Figure 2-30 Authentications between the supplicant and the Authentication server The wireless client (laptop) is known as the Supplicant.
Page 42 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide 3. Pe rformance Parameters and Bandwid th Controller This c hapter gives instruct ions for editing the wireless radio protocol parameters to optimize radio performance and changing t he Bandwidth Controller.
Page 43 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide Throughput Optimizer The Throughput Optimizer is used to optimize the radio Link speed and performance. The Valid range is 0 to 10. The default value is 6.
Page 44 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide 3.2. Bandwidth Co ntroller Using t he Bandwidth Controller on the aCNPT, t he us er can limit the wireless link ban dwidth for the upload/download speed.
Page 45 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide Figure 3-3 Added list.
Page 46 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide 4. Qua lity of Service (QoS) The primary goal of QoS is t o provide priority f or certain ap.
Page 47 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide Figure 4-2: QoS front page In total, there are 9 different classes which can be configured. Note: Class 1 indicates the default value. In order to define the filters for a class, follow the steps below: 1.
Page 48 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide 3. Select whether the packet has to be filtered based on the IP or MAC. Figure 4-4: Selection Menu of IP/MAC based filter 4. Select whether the packet has to be filtered based on s ource add ress or the destination address.
Page 49 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide Figure 4-6: IP address dialog box. 5. Select the Port, either Destination or Source based and select the Port Number from the drop down menu. You can also select a customized the Port number.
Page 50 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide Figure 4-8: Selection menu of type of port (It can be customized by the user with the port number).
Page 51 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide Figure 4-10: Selected filter list window 8. After adding the desired filters to the list, c lick on the Apply Ch anges to save the configuration of the filters.
Page 52 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide Figure 4-12: Added filters 9. The filters added can be deleted by first s electing the added filters from the list and then clicking on “ Delete Selected filters “.
Page 53 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide 12. In order to enable a particular class, click on t he radio button.
Page 54 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide 5. Site Survey T ool To access the Site S urvey page, go to the ‘Tools’ | ‘ Site Sur vey ’ drop do wn menu. The following figure shows the list of SSID from the site survey.
Page 55 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide 6. Antenna Alignment Antenna alignment can b e used to opt imize the radio performanc e and check t he RSSI. To access the antenna alignment, go to the m enu bar under Tools and choose ‘ Antenna Alignment ’.
Page 56 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide Note : A jump in the audio frequency from low to high indicates that the RSSI is increasing and vice versa.
Page 57 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide 7. T raffic St atistics Wireless and Ethernet Traff ic Statistics can be displayed by clicking on t he ‘ Networking ’ | ‘ S tatistics ’ drop down menu.
Page 58 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide Transmitted error The number of unicast and multicast packets that could not be or were not successfully transmitted by the device.
Page 59 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide RTS Fail Total number of transmitted RTS frames for which no response CTS frame was received. RTS Success Total number of CTS frames received in response to the RTS frames.
Page 60 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide 8. T ools Here you will find the relevant information f or condu cting the different reset opti ons, using the Profile Manager and doing a Link Test as well as estimating the Link Budget.
Page 61 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide The following page summarizes the page contents of the System Configuration page. Table 8-1 System Configuration Page Items Page Item Descriptions.
Page 62 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide 8.1.1 SNMP Security The user can edit the SNMP Community String and SNMP Access filters. The SNMP community needs to match with th e SNMP monitoring software used.
Page 63 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide 8.1.2 Reset Options All reset options power cycles the device and restarts the whole system. Reset : To reset the device. The device will reboot with the current configuration/values.
Page 64 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide 8.1.3 NTP Time Serve r Setup The device time comes from the network time information source. The device needs access to a network timer (NTP time server) source.
Page 65 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide Figure 8-5 Profile Manager Table 8-3 Description of Commands Page Item Descriptions Save As: Select which profile name to save for the current configuration Profile Description: Specify a description for the profile to be saved.
Page 66 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide 8.2.1 Save Profile Follow the steps below to save the current configuration to a profile: 1. Select a profile name from ‘Save As’. 2. Enter a description of the profile.
Page 67 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide Figure 7-6 Scheduling a Profile Link Test The Link Test utility is available from the navigation menu bar in the ‘Tools | Link Test’ drop down menu.
Page 68 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide Figure 8-7 Ping Test Result When the aCNPT is associated with an airPoint Nexus, you can do a Throughput Test to test the speed of the link. Follow the steps below to do a Throughput Test: 1.
Page 69 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide Figure 8-8 Throughput Test Result 8.4 Link Budget Pl anning Link Budget Planning is a very useful to ol f or link budget estimation.
Page 70 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide Figure 8-9 Link Budget Planning Calculator GPS Calculator Once the distance is computed follow the steps below for the link budget calculations: 1.
Page 71 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide Figure 8-10 Link Budget Planning Calculator Link Budget.
Page 72 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide 9. Firmware Upgrade The latest firmware f or aCNPT Nexus is available for download from the smartBridges Support website at http://www.smartbridges.
Page 73 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide Figure 9-2 aCNPT Nexus Firmware Upgrade (Firmware transferred) Figure 9-3 Successful upgrade.
Page 74 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide Appendix A – SNMP T rap aCNPT Nexus generates a SNMP trap that can be forwarded to the SNMP Trap server. The SNMP Trap server IP address is set in section.
Page 75 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide Appendix B – Useful te rms and defi nitions Acronyms and Abbreviations MAC Media Access Co.
Page 76 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide WEP According to the IEEE 802.11 standard, Wired Equivalent Privacy ( WEP ) is intended t o .
Page 77 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide DHCP DHCP stands for ‘Dynamic Host Configuration P rotocol’ and is a means for networked com puters to get their TCP /IP networking s ettings from a central server.
Page 78 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airClient™ Nexus PRO TOTAL User Guide Appendix C – License aCNPT Nexus is Copyright © 2004-2005 by smartBridges.
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