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Cisco IOS Software Configuration Guide for Cisco Aironet Access Points
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Chapter 6 Configuring Radio Settings
Configuring Location-Based Services
Figure 6-2 Basic LBS Network Configuration
The access points that you configure for LBS should be in the same vicinity. If only one or two access
points report messages from a tag, the location server can report that the location of the tag is somewhere
in the coverage area of the two reporting access points. Consult the documentation for your LBS tags
and location server for additional configuration details.
Configuring LBS on Access Points
Use the CLI to configure LBS on your access point. Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these
steps to configure LBS:
LBS access point
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Command Purpose
Step 1
configure terminal Enter global configuration mode.
Step 2
dot11 lbs profile-name Create an LBS profile for the access point and enter LBS
configuration mode.
Step 3
server-address ip-address port port Enter the IP address of the location server and the port on the
server to which the access point sends UDP packets that
contain location information.
Step 4
method {rssi} (Optional) Select the location method that the access point uses
when reporting location information to the location server. In
this release, rssi (in which the access point measures the
location packet RSSI) is the only option and is also the default.
Step 5
packet-type {short | extended} (Optional) Select the packet type that the access point accepts
from the LBS tag.
• short—The access point accepts short location packets
from the tag. In short packets, the LBS information is
missing from the tag packet frame body and the packet
indicates the tag transmit channel.
• extended—This is the default setting. The access point
accepts extended packets from the tag. An extended packet
contains two bytes of LBS information in the frame body.
If the packet does not contain those two bytes in the frame
body, the access point drops the packet.