rf arm-profile

Name of this instance of the profile. The name must be 1-63 characters.

Default: default

The specified setting allows ARM to determine if 40 MHz mode of operation is allowed on the 5 GHz or 2.4 GHz frequency band only, on both frequency bands, or on neither frequency band.

Range: All/None/
a-only/g-only

Default: a-only

Allows 40 MHz channels on both the 5 GHZ (802.11a) and 2.4 GHZ (802.11b/g) frequency bands.

Disallows use of 40 MHz channels.

Allows use of 40 MHz channels on the 5 GHZ (802.11a) frequency band only.

Allows use of 40 MHz channels on the 2.4 GHZ (802.11b/g) frequency band only.

If enabled, 80 MHz channels can be used in the 5 GHz frequency band on APs that support 802.11ac.

Default: enabled

Specifies which 160 MHz mode to be assigned. This parameter does not apply to 2.4 GHz frequency band.

Allows automatic selection of contiguous frequency.

Allows to assign contiguous only 160 MHz channel bandwidth.

Allows to assign non-contiguous 160 MHz channel bandwidth.

This sub-parameter disallows assigning 160 MHz channel bandwidth.

The minimal coverage that the AP should try to achieve on its channel. The denser the AP deployment, the lower this value should be.

This setting applies to multi-band implementations only.

Range: 1-6

Default: 4

When active-scan is enabled, an AP initiates active scanning via probe request. This option elicits more information from nearby APs, but also creates additional management traffic on the network. This feature is disabled by default, and should not be enabled except under the direct supervision of HPE Aruba Networking Technical Support.

Default: disabled

When this feature is enabled, an AP radio with no clients will scan channels every second.

Default: enabled

Activates one of four ARM channel/power assignment modes.

Default: single-band (new installations only)

Disables ARM channel/power assignments.

Maintains existing channel assignments.

Computes ARM assignments for both 5 GHZ (802.11a) and 2.4 GHZ (802.11b/g) frequency bands.

Computes ARM assignments for a single band.

Time, in seconds, an AP backs off after requesting a new channel or power.

Range: 120-3600

Default: 240 sec

If enabled, ARM changes are based upon an internally calculated channel quality metric. When this feature is disabled, ARM initiates channel changes based on thresholds defined in this profile, and chooses the channel based on the calculated interference index value.

Default: disabled

Channel quality percentage below which ARM initiates a channel change.

Range: 0-100

Default: 70

If channel quality is below the specified channel quality threshold for this wait time period, ARM initiates a channel change.

Range: 1-3600

Default: 120

If the Client Aware option is enabled, the AP does not change channels if there is active client traffic on that AP. If Client Aware is disabled, the AP may change to a more optimal channel, but this change may also disrupt current client traffic.

Default: enabled

ClientMatch helps optimize network resources by balancing clients across channels, regardless of whether the AP or the controller is responding to the wireless client’s probe requests.

If enabled, the controller compares whether or not an AP has more clients than its neighboring APs on other channels. If an AP’s client load is at or over a predetermined threshold as compared to its immediate neighbors, or if a neighboring HPE Aruba Networking AP on another channel does not have any clients, load balancing will be enabled on that AP.

Default: enabled

Name of an existing ARM profile from which parameter values are copied.

Enable or disable Client Match band steers to 6GHz.

Minimum signal level required for the targeted A band radio in a Client Match band steer move (-dBm).

Range: 0-255 dbm

Default: 75

Maximum signal level of the G band radio that can trigger a Client Match band steer move (-dBm)

Range: 0-255 dbm

Default: 45

Client Match steers using 802.11v BSS Transition Management.

Default: enabled

Minimum signal required for the targeted HE move (-dbm).

Range: 0-255 dbm

Default: 55

Target radio should not have weaker signal strength than current source radio by the configured value.

Client match HE pooling SNR threshold (dB) at target radio

If an AP radio has fewer clients than the client match load balancing threshold defined by this parameter, the AP will not participate in load balancing.

Range: 0-100
clients

Default: 30

Controls how often client load balancing will be done (in minutes).

Set to 0 to disable Load Balancing.

Range: 0-255 minutes

Default: 5 minutes

Client match will not move a client to a new radio if the signal strength of the target AP is this dB value lower than the radio to which the client is currently associated. This parameter works differently than the cm-lb-snr-thresh value, which imposes a definite value on the target AP's signal-to-noise radio. the cm-lb-signal-delta imposes a relative constraint based upon the signal strength of the radio to which the client is currently associated.

Range: 0-20 dB

Default: 5 dB

Clients must detect a SNR from an underutilized AP radio at or above this threshold before ClientMatch considers load balancing a client to that radio.

Range: 0-100 dB

Default: 25

When ClientMatch is enabled, clients may be steered from a highly utilized channel on an AP to a channel with fewer clients. If a channel on an AP radio has this percentage fewer clients than another channel supported by the client, ClientMatch may move clients from the busier channel to the channel with fewer clients.

Range: 0-100%

Default: 20

The controller keeps track of the number of times ClientMatch failed to steer a client to a different radio, and the reason that each steer attempt was triggered. If ClientMatch attempts to steer a client to a new radio multiple consecutive times for the same reason but client steering fails each time, the controller notifies the AP to mark the client as unsteerable for that specific trigger.

This parameter defines the maximum allowed number of client match steering fails with the same trigger before the client is marked as unsteerable for that trigger.

Range: 0-100 failures

Default: 5

Total number of clients that can be associated to a radio, in which the radio can still be considered for multi-user (MU) steering.

Range: 0-255 dbm

Default: 15

Minimum SNR value of a client on the target radio, in which the radio can still be considered for multi-user (MU) steering.

Range: 0-255 dbm

Default: 30

This interval defines how often an AP sends an updated client probe report to the controller. Each client probe report contains a list of MAC addresses for clients that have been active in the last two minutes, and the AP radio SNR values seen by those clients.

Range: 0-255 secs

Default: 30

The controller can maintain client match data for the maximum number of supported clients for that controller platform, showing the detected SNR values for up to 16 candidate APs per client. This table is periodically updated as APs send client probe reports to the controller. This parameter defines the amount of time that the controller should retain client match data from each client probe report.

Different controller types support varying numbers of clients.

7005: 1024 client

7010: 2048 clients

7030: 4096 clients

7240: 32000 clients

7220: 24000 clients

7210: 16000 clients

Range: 0- 65535 seconds

Default: 120 seconds

Client Match will attempt one IOS steer at the configured backoff time interval.

When a client is steered from one AP to a more desirable AP, the steer timeout feature helps facilitate the move by defining the amount of time that any APs to which the client should NOT associate will not respond to the AP.

Range: 0-255
seconds

Frequency at which the AP checks for client's received SNR values. If the SNR value drops below the threshold defined by the cm-sticky-snr parameter for three consecutive check intervals, that client may be moved to an different AP.

Range: 0-255
seconds

Default: 3 seconds

A client triggered to move to a different AP may consider an AP radio a better match if the client detects that the signal from the candidate AP radio is at or higher than the minimum signal level defined by this parameterand the candidate radio has a higher signal strength than the radio to which the client is currently associated. (The required improvement in signal strength can be defined using the cm-sticky-snr-delta command.)

Range: 0-255
(-dB)

Default: 65

If the client's received signal strength indicator (RSSI) is above this signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) threshold, that client will be allowed to stay associated to its current AP. If the client's received signal strength is below this threshold, it may be moved to a different AP.

Range: 0-255 dB

A client triggered to move to a different AP may consider an AP radio a better match if the client detects that the signal from the AP radio is stronger than its current radio by the dB level defined by the cm-sticky-snr-thresh parameter, and the candidate radio also has a minimum signal level defined by the cm-sticky-min-signal parameter.

Range: 0-100 dB

Default: 10

The client entries in an unsteerable client list remain in effect for the interval defined by this parameter before they age out.

Default: 2 days

When client match and the client match unsteerable client ageout feature are enabled, the controller periodically sends APs that are not a desired AP match for a client in a list of unsteerable clients. These lists contain a list of MAC addresses for up to 128 clients that should not be steered to that AP.

The following controller types support a aggregate maximum of unsteerable clients for all APs associated to that controller.

7005: 256 unsteerable clients

7010: 512 unsteerable clients

7030: 1024 unsteerable clients

7240: 8000 unsteerable clients

7220: 6000 unsteerable clients

7210: 4000 unsteerable clients

Configures the ARM default-6 GHz profile. For more information, see rf arm-profile default-6ghz.

Issue the dynamic-bw parameter to enable the ARM dynamic bandwidth switch feature. When enabled ARM can detect 20MHz interferers that can impact an AP radio using an 80MHz channel and move the AP radio to another 80MHz channel. For more information, see 80 MHz Dynamic Bandwidth Switch on page 1

Default: disabled

The ARM dynamic bandwidth switch feature may trigger a change in the radio channel bandwidth if the number of failed beacons exceeds this value during the observation window.

Range: 1-500

Default: 30

The ARM dynamic bandwidth switch feature may trigger a change in the radio channel bandwidth if the clear channel asignment IBSS percentage drops below this value during the observation window.

Range: 1-100

Default: 10

The ARM dynamic bandwidth switch feature may trigger a change in the radio channel bandwidth if the clear channel assignment interference percentage exceeds this value during the observation window.

Range: 1-100

Default: 30

The ARM dynamic bandwidth switch feature returns the AP radio to 80MHz channel after this clear time period if there is no high volume of traffic.

Range: 1-300 seconds

Default: 30

Minimum time in seconds dynamic bandwidth switch indicators have to be true to trigger a 80MHz to 40MHz bandwidth change.

Range: 1-300 seconds

Default: 30

The percentage of errors in the channel that triggers a channel change. Recommended value is 50%. A value of 0% disables this feature.

Range: 0-100

Default: default-a: 70%, default-g: 70%

Time, in seconds, that the error rate has to be at least the error rate threshold to trigger a channel change.

Recommended values are 1-100.

Range: 1-2,147,483,647

Default: default-a: 90 seconds, default-g: 90 seconds

The difference in the interference index between the new channel and current channel must exceed this value for the AP to move to a new channel. The higher this value, the lower the chance an AP will move to the new channel.

Range: 0-100

Default: default-a: 40, default-g: 25

The duration, in minutes, for blacklisting/denylisting AirMatch Solver's channel after 2 consecutive high noise detections. Setting the value to 0 disables the backoff window.

Range: 0-3600

Default: 720 minutes (12 hours)

The coverage that the AP should try to achieve on its channel. The denser the AP deployment, the lower this value should be. Recommended value is 10.

Range: 2-20

Default: default-a: 6,

default-g: 6

Load aware ARM preserves network resources during periods of high traffic by temporarily halting ARM scanning if the load for the AP gets too high.

The Load Aware Scan Threshold is the traffic throughput level an AP must reach before it stops scanning. The supported range for this setting is 0-20000000 bytes/second. (Specify 0 to disable this feature.)

Default: 1250000 bytes/second

Maximum effective isotropic radiated power (EIRP) from 3 to 33 dBm in 3 dBm increments. You may also specify a special value of 127 dBm for regulatory maximum to disable power adjustments for environments such as outdoor mesh links. This value takes into account both radio transmit power and antenna gain.

Higher power level settings may be constrained by local regulatory requirements and AP capabilities.

Range: 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 30, 33, 127

Default: default-a: 18 dBm, default-g: 9 dBm

Minimum number of times a channel must be scanned before it is considered for assignment. The supported range for this setting is 0-2,147,483,647 scans. Best practices are to configure Minimum Scan Time between 1-20 scans.

Recommended values are 1-20.

Range: 1-2,147,483,647

Default: 8 scans

Minimum effective isotropic radiated power (EIRP) from 3 to 33 dBm in 3 dBm increments. You may also specify a special value of 127 dBm for regulatory minimum. This value takes into account both radio transmit power and antenna gain.

Higher power level settings may be constrained by local regulatory requirements and AP capabilities.

Range: 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 30, 33, 127

Default: default-a: 12 dBm, default-g: 6 dBm

If enabled, ARM will turn APs into Air Monitors (AMs) if it detects higher coverage levels than necessary. This helps avoid higher levels of interference on the WLAN. Although this setting is disabled by default, you may want to enable this feature if your APs are deployed in close proximity (e.g. less than 60 feet apart).

Default: disabled

When enabled, single-radio APs try to scan across bands for rogue AP detection.

Default: enabled

Negates any configured parameter.

The ota-updates option allows an AP to get information about its RF environment from its neighbors, even the AP cannot scan. If this feature is enabled, when an AP on the network scans a foreign (non-home) channel, it sends other APs an Over-the-Air (OTA) update in an 802.11 management frame that contains information about the scanning AP's home channel, the current transmission EIRP value of its home channel, and one-hop neighbors seen by that AP.

Default: enabled

When enabled, the AP will not scan if Power Save is active.

Default: disabled

The duration, in minutes, for blacklisting/denylisting AirMatch solver's channel after 2 consecutive radar detections. Setting the value to 0 disables the backoff window.

Range: 0-3600

Default: 720 minutes (12 hours)

When enabled, the AP will try to contain off-channel rogue APs.

Default: disabled

If scanning is enabled, the scan interval defines how often the AP will leave its current channel to scan other channels in the band. Off-channel scanning can impact client performance. Typically, the shorter the scan interval, the higher the impact on performance. If you are deploying a large number of new APs on the network, you may want to lower the Scan Interval to help those APs find their optimal settings more quickly. Raise the Scan Interval back to its default setting after the APs are functioning as desired.

Recommended values are 0-30 seconds.

Range: 0-2,147,483, 647 seconds

Range: 10 seconds

Select the scan mode for the AP:

all-reg-domain: The AP scans channels within all regulatory domains. This is the default setting.

reg-domain:Limit the AP scans to just the regulatory domain for that AP.

Default: all-reg-domain

The Scanning check box enables or disables AP scanning across multiple channels. Disabling this option also disables the following scanning features:

Multi Band Scan

Rogue AP Aware

Voip Aware Scan

Power Save Scan

Do not disable Scanning unless you want to disable ARM and manually configure AP channel and transmission power.

Default: enabled

As long as there is at least one video frame every 100 mSec the AP will reject an ARM scanning request. Note that for each radio interface, video frames must be defined in one of two ways:

Classify the frame as video traffic via a session ACL.

Enable WMM on the WLAN’s SSID profile and define a specific DSCP value as a video stream. Next, create a session ACL to tag the video traffic with the that DSCP value.

Default: enabled

HPE Aruba Networking’s VoIP Intelligent Call Handling (ICH) prevents any single AP from becoming congested with voice calls. When you enable ICH, you should also enable voip-aware-scan parameter in the ARM profile, so the AP will not attempt to scan a different channel if one of its clients has an active VoIP call. This option requires that scanning is also enabled.

Default: disabled