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ProSafe 5 AP Wireless
Management Software
WMS105
User Manual
350 East Plumeria Drive
San Jose, CA 95134
USA
May 2010
202-10662-01
v1.0
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ProSafe 5 AP Wireless Management Software WMS105 © 2010 NETGEAR, Inc.© 2010 by NETGEAR, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form or by any means without the written permission of NETGEAR, Inc. P/N: Part Number TBD v1.0 Technical Support When you register your product at http://www.netgear.com/register, we can provide you with faster expert technical support and t
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Table of Contents Chapter 1 Getting Started Installing the Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Logging In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 System Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 General Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Time Settings. . . .
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ProSafe 5 AP Wireless Management Software WMS105 Maintenance Chapter 6 Changing Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30 Reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31 SNMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31 Remote Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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1. Getting Started 1 The ProSafe 5 AP Wireless Management Software is a Wireless Management Software that allows you to manage up to 5 NETGEAR wireless access points on a LAN. You can use the Wireless Management Software to: • Discover NETGEAR access points on the LAN. • Optimize wireless access point performance with centralized RF management. • Streamline security configuration tasks. • Perform maintenance tasks including remote management and firmware updates for NETGEAR
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ProSafe 5 AP Wireless Management Software WMS105 Logging In 1. To log in to the Wireless Management Software, double-click the application, or right-click it and select Open WMS105 from System tray. A login prompt displays: 2. If you are logging in for the first time, use the default user name admin and password (password). NETGEAR recommends that you change the password to a new, more secure password and record it in a secure location. The user interface opens with the Configuration tab sel
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ProSafe 5 AP Wireless Management Software WMS105 • Country/Region: This field displays the region of operation for the Wireless Management Software and the access points managed by the Wireless Management Software. In the United States, the country is preset and cannot be changed on the access points. If the Country/Region is not set up correctly, it could result in the access points being inaccessible by the Wireless Management Software. For products sold outside the United States, you
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ProSafe 5 AP Wireless Management Software WMS105 Syslog Settings This page lets you configure the settings to connect to a Syslog server, if you have one configured in your network. Click the Config tab and select System > Advanced. • Enable Syslog: Enable the Syslog settings, if you have a Syslog server on your network. • Syslog Server IP Address: Enter the IP address to which the Wireless Management Software and managed access points send all SysLogs, if the SysLog option is enabled
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2. Access Point Discovery 2 You can discover supported NETGEAR access points on the LAN that can be managed by the Wireless Management Software. See Appendix A for a list of compatible access points. The Wireless Management Software supports Auto Discovery and IP Discovery. • Auto Discovery: Use this feature if the Wireless Management Software and all access points on the LAN are in the same IP subnet. This is a Layer 2 discovery method. • IP Discovery: If the Wireless Management So
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ProSafe 5 AP Wireless Management Software WMS105 To use Auto Discovery: 1. On the Configuration tab select Access Point Discovery. 2. Click Search. • The Wireless Management Software searches for NETGEAR products on the LAN based on MAC address, and identifies which are access points. • The access points located through discovery are displayed on the screen. 3. Check the discovery results to make sure that all the access points are listed. See “Discovery Results” on page 11. 4. Add th
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ProSafe 5 AP Wireless Management Software WMS105 To use IP Discovery: 1. On the Configuration tab, select Access Point Discovery, and then click the IP Discovery tab: 2. To specify the range of IP addresses, fill in the Start IP and End IP fields. 3. Click Search. • The Wireless Management Software locates devices on the LAN within the range of IP addresses that you specified. • The devices are displayed in a list. 4. Check the discovery results to make sure that all the access point
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ProSafe 5 AP Wireless Management Software WMS105 For a list of compatible access point models and their supported firmware, see "Access Point Supported Firmware Versions " in Appendix A. • If a new NETGEAR access point is not discovered, it might have a MAC address that the Wireless Management Software does not recognize, though this is not common. See “Using Discovery OUI” 36. on page Adding Access Points After the Wireless Management Software discovers the access points, add them so t
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3. Wireless Configuration 3 You can configure centralized RF management and specify wireless settings in the Basic RF Management page. If you use access point groups, you can use the Advanced Wireless Settings page to customize wireless settings for each group. Configuring Centralized RF Management In this screen you can specify RF Management settings. RF Management, when run, optimizes the channel allocation for access points based on clients, user data traffic, and observed nearby RF envi
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ProSafe 5 AP Wireless Management Software WMS105 experiences interference on a channel, the Wireless Management Software allocates a different channel to that access point. • Client aware RF Management: If this Enable radio button is selected, the Wireless Management Software will not modify the channel for an access point with associated clients that would be impacted by the channel change. The Wireless Management Software will wait for the next scheduled channel allocation to adjust t
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ProSafe 5 AP Wireless Management Software WMS105 Advanced Wireless Settings This page is for advanced users who wish to control the WLAN settings of the access points manually. On the Configuration tab, select Wireless > Advanced. To manually specify the WLAN parameters for access points: 1. Disable the Central RF Management feature from the Basic > RF Management page. This prevents the Wireless Management Software from automatically using RF management and adjusting power and channel setti
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ProSafe 5 AP Wireless Management Software WMS105 Table 1. Advanced Wireless Settings (Continued) Field or Setting Description Channel Width (11n only) Select the available channel width of the access point. A wider channel improves the performance, but some legacy devices can only operate on either 20 MHz or 40 MHz. Guard Interval (11n only) Select the value that protects transmissions from interference. A shorter guard interval improves performance, but some legacy devices can only opera
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ProSafe 5 AP Wireless Management Software WMS105 Configuring QoS You can use QoS to enable WMM for both upstream traffic from the station to the access point and downstream traffic from the access point to the client station.You can use Basic QoS settings for access points or Advanced QoS Settings for access point groups These settings are applied only to NETGEAR ProSafe access points that support QoS. WMM defines the following four queues in decreasing order of priority: • Voice: The h
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4. Security Configuration 4 Security Profiles List Details of each wireless network are contained in a security profile. This page lets you edit up to eight Security Profiles per managed access point, depending on the number of profiles each access point supports. Separate profiles are applied to 802.11 b/bg/ng and 802.11a/na mode radios. To view or change security profiles: 1. On the Configuration tab, select Security > Basic > Profile Settings. 2. Each Security Profile specifies: • Nam
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ProSafe 5 AP Wireless Management Software WMS105 3. Select the Enable checkbox to enable (or disable) the corresponding profile. 4. To change the settings of a security profile, select the profile and click the Edit button. Editing a Security Profile This lets you change the Security Profile settings of the profile that you selected on the Profile Settings page. • Name: A unique name for the Security Profile, up to 32 alphanumeric characters. Use meaningful names instead of the default na
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ProSafe 5 AP Wireless Management Software WMS105 The following table shows the data encryption options based on network authentication. Table 2. Network Authentication and Data Encryption Network Authentication Data Encryption Description Open None No encryption. WEP Shared Key WEP • 64-bit WEP encryption uses 40/64 bit encryption. • 128-bit WEP encryption uses 104/128 bit encryption. • 152-bit WEP is a proprietary mode that will only work with other wireless devices that support this
