I don't think you need to reboot the SM's. When you shut off the omni,
they will rescan.
At step 5, Add the new color code as primary color code, and the current
one as a secondary, then reboot SM.
At step 6 reboot all AP's at the same time, but again no need to reboot
the SM's.
On 3/21/2016 4:23 PM, Darren Shea wrote:
It’s been a while, but I remember my steps (going from one omni to
multiple sectors) being like this:
1.Put up new sectors, but don’t turn on transmit
2.Set all new APs to the same color code as the omni. Grab a snapshot
of all connected SMs from the omni
3.Reboot all SM’s (Perl script using SNMP and proxy IP), while at the
same time turning on the transmit on the new sectors, and off on the omni
4.Make sure (after a reasonable time) that each SM has registered
(with a good signal level, of course), if so…
5.Under the assumption that each SM has chosen the best AP available,
program the appropriate new color code into each of the SMs connected
to each sector (another perl script using SNMP and the proxy IP).
6.After double-checking everything, set the new sector color codes and
reboot all simultaneously
7.Verify all SMs are registered, and you’re done!
*From:*Af [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Sterling Jacobson
*Sent:* Saturday, March 19, 2016 2:14 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Canopy moving from 1 color code per tower to 1
color code per AP
I think you could add secondary and tertiary color codes to the AP’s,
then just go through the SM’s and change their CC to whatever works
best for them.
I seem to recall doing that often years ago, but not sure if there is
an easier way other than manually.
I know JAB had written a very nice platform to do something like this
with Canopy, again, years ago.
*From:*Af [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Sean Heskett
*Sent:* Saturday, March 19, 2016 1:05 PM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>; [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* [AFMUG] Canopy moving from 1 color code per tower to 1
color code per AP
Hi Gang,
due to historical reasons that are no longer valid we currently have 1
color code assigned to all APs per tower. I'd like to move to 1 color
code per AP. However, this would require first gathering all the data
from the SMs as to which AP is their best, which is second best and
which is third best (we often have multiple APs aimed in almost the
same direction). We have hundreds of APs and thousands of SMs so
having a monkey log into each SM and log this data would probably take
a couple lifetimes haha.
Before I go hire someone to write some scripts and create a database
to get this project going, I was wondering if any of you have already
done this and if you have any software tools you'd be willing to
share/sell.
Also if anyone else is thinking of doing this would you want to go in
on the development together? (if no one else has accomplished this)
thanks,
-Sean
