Setting Up Recommended Timeout and Retries
1. In the Device Setup > Communication page, locate the SNMP Setting section.
2. Change the SNMP Timeout setting to a value or either 3, 4, or 5. This is the number of seconds that OV3600
will wait for a response from a device after sending an SNMP request, so a smaller number is more ideal.
3. Change the SNMP Retries value to 10. This value represents the number of times OV3600 tries to poll a
device when it does not receive a response within the SNMP Timeout Period or the Group’s Missed SNMP Poll
Threshold setting (1-100).
Although the upper limit for this value is 40, some SNMP libraries still have a hard limit of 20 retries. In these
cases, any retry value that is set above 20 will still stop at 20.
Figure 4: Timeout settings in Device Setup > Communication
4. Click Save when you are done.
Setting Up Time Synchronization
You can set the clock on a switch manually or by configuring the switch to use a Network Time Protocol (NTP)
server to synchronize its system clock with a central time source.
Manually Setting the Clock on a switch
You can use either the WebUI or CLI to manually set the time on the switch’s clock.
1. Navigate to the Configuration > Management > Clock page.
2. Under switch Date/Time, set the date and time for the clock.
3. Under Time Zone, enter the name of the time zone and the offset from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
4. To adjust the clock for daylight savings time, click Enabled under Summer Time. Additional fields appear that
allow you to set the offset from UTC and the start and end recurrences.
5. Click Apply.
Enabling Support for Channel Utilization And Statistics
To enable support for channel utilization statistics, your OV3600 server and Alcatel-Lucent AOS-W and Alcatel-
Lucent Instant devices must be running the following versions of software:
l OmniVista 3600 Air Manager 7.6 or later
l Alcatel-Lucent AOS-W 6.0.1 or later
l Alcatel-Lucent Instant 3.3 or later
Devicesrunning AOS-W 6.0.1 can report RF utilization metrics, but AOS-W 6.1 or later is necessary to also
obtainclassified interferer information.
OV3600 Setup
1. Navigate to OV3600 Setup > General.
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