Table Of Contents

Designing Sites

Updating Campuses

Importing Sites From Files

Removing Campuses or Buildings

Associating Devices With Sites

Associating Endpoints With Sites

Designing Sites

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Prime Infrastructure Sites help you manage your network by associating network elements with your organization's physical locations. They allow you to segment the physical structure of your network, and to monitor and troubleshoot your network based on location information.

Sites have a hierarchy. At the top are campuses, which can contain buildings and outdoor areas. You may create as many campuses as your organization needs. Buildings within a campus can contain floors. You can specify the number of floors in a building, the size and height of any floor, and associate images (including photographs and drawings) of these areas with your specifications. You can make the site structure as simple or as complex as you need.

As your organization grows and changes, you need to change your site structure. The areas where you set up and change sites include:

•Design > Site Map Design—Create a new site or update an existing site.

•Operate > Device Work Center—If a site has previously been created, you can add devices to a site by clicking Add to Site from the Device Work Center.

•You can also associate network endpoints

Updating Campuses

The following steps explain how to edit your campuses. Editing a campus allows you to change the campus name, contact, and any associated image file.

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Step 1 Choose Design > Site Map Design.

Step 2 Choose the campus you want to change. then select the appropriate command from the Go menu:

To do this:	Select this command and click Go
Add a new building to the currently selected campus	New Building
Add a new outdoor area to the currently selected campus	New Outdoor Area
Edit the campus name, contact, associated image file, latitude and longitude, address, and dimensions in feet.	Edit Campus
Delete the currently selected campus and all of its contained buildings and outdoor areas.	Delete Campus

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Importing Sites From Files

Prime Infrastructure supports direct import of site map information stored in the following formats:

•XML—A TAR GZIP or ZIP file containing definitions of all Prime Infrastructure map data, including images and calibration data.

•AP/Wifi TDOA Received/Chokepoint Placement files—A CSV file exportable from Cisco WCS 7.0.

•WLSE Map and AP Location Data—An encrypted XML file exportable by Cisco Wireless LAN Solution Engine (WLSE).

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Step 1 Choose Design > Site Map Design or Operate > Maps.

Step 2 In the Go menu, select Import Maps, then click Go.

Step 3 Select the import file format and click Next

Step 4 Click Browse to browse for the file, then click Import.

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Removing Campuses or Buildings

Deleting a campus deletes all buildings assigned to the campus. Deleting a campus does not remove the inventory assigned to the campus.

To delete a campus or building:

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Step 1 Choose Operate > Maps.

Step 2 Choose the campus or building you want to remove.

Step 3 From the command menu, choose Delete, and then click Go.

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Associating Devices With Sites

After you have created site profiles, you can assign devices to those sites. By associating devices with a campus or buildings, you can simplify maintenance tasks. When you need to perform maintenance tasks on devices, you can choose the site that contains the devices and apply the changes to all the devices in the site.

To control which users have access to the devices in the sites, you need to create virtual domains. See Setting Up Virtual Domains for more information.

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Step 1 Choose Operate > Device Work Center.

Step 2 Choose the devices you want to add to a site

Step 3 Choose Groups & Sites > Add To Group.

Step 4 In the Select Group list, choose the campus, building, outdoor site, or floor to which to assign the devices, then click Save.

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Note The Campus and Building fields are populated with the settings you previously entered in Operate > Maps. See Setting Up Site Profiles for more information.

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Associating Endpoints With Sites

Endpoint-Site association rules allow you to associate all the devices on particular subnets to a Site profile, and (optionally) to specify the VLAN location and monitoring data source for the devices on that subnet. This allows you to associate the logical structure of your network with your organizational locations, enabling troubleshooting using Prime Infrastructure's multi-segment analysis features.

Note the you can specify multiple rules for the same subnet, allowing you to (for example) specify multiple monitoring data sources or VLANs.

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Step 1 Choose Design > Endpoint-Site Association.

Step 2 Click Add Row to add an Endpoint-Site association rule

Step 3 Complete the fields as follows:

•Site—Select the campus you want to associate with this subnet. You must have already created the campus.

•Subnet—Enter the routing prefix of the subnetwork to be associated with this Site (and optional Data Source and VLAN). The entry must be in Classless Inter-Domain Routing notation.

•Data Source—Select the edge router or NAM monitoring traffic to and from the devices in the specified subnetwork.

•VLAN—Enter the VLAN ID of the subnetwork.

Step 4 Click Save.

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