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Editing Default RSSI Threshold and Dwell Time
To modify the default RSSI Received Signal Strength Indicator. RSSI is a mechanism by which RF energy is measured by the circuitry on a wireless NIC (0-255). The RSSI is not standard across vendors. Each vendor determines its own RSSI scale/values. thresholds and dwell time configuration parameters, complete the following steps:
- In the WebUI, set the filter to
The dashboard context for the selected filter is displayed.
. - Under , click > .
- Click the icon.
- In the
The
window is displayed.
table, click the . - Under
By default, the RSSI threshold value is set to -65 dBm Decibel-Milliwatts. dBm is a logarithmic measurement (integer) that is typically used in place of mW to represent receive-power level. AMP normalizes all signals to dBm, so that it is easy to evaluate performance between various vendors.. You can specify a value within the range of -100 to 0.
, specify the value for the field. - Under
By default, the RSSI threshold value is set to -90 dBm. You can specify a value within the range of -100 to 0.
, specify the value for the field. - Under
By default, the dwell time is set to 5 minutes.
, specify the values for . - Click .
Editing default thresholds and dwell-time changes the default values only, custom set thresholds and dwell-time do not change.
The applied configuration changes for the RSSI threshold and dwell time take a maximum of 2 hours to reflect in HPE Aruba Networking Central.
If Presence Analytics is disabled at a customer level, then all site level and customer level thresholds get cleared. Enabling Presence Analytics at customer level again resets the all threshold levels.