Network Hierarchy Overview
You can create a network hierarchy that represents your network's geographical locations. The hierarchical organization enables you to easily apply design settings or configurations to a specific hierarchical element. For example, you can apply design settings to an entire area or to only a floor.
You can name hierarchical elements to help you identify where to apply design settings later.
The hierarchical elements that you can create have rules that dictate under which elements they can reside and which elements can reside under them.
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Global: Default element under which all other hierarchical elements reside. Areas and sites are the only elements that can reside directly under Global.
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Areas and Sites (): Areas and sites reside under Global or under other areas or sites. They do not have a physical address. As the largest element, they identify a geographic region. They provide a way to group areas and sites.
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Buildings (): Buildings reside under areas or sites. When you create a building, specify a physical address or latitude and longitude coordinates. Buildings can't contain areas. However, they can contain floors.
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Floors (): Floors reside under buildings. You can add floors to buildings with or without maps that contain various building components, like walls and windows. If you decide to use floor maps, you can manually create them or import them from files, such as DXF, DWG, JPG, GIF, PNG, or PDF file types. Then you can position your wireless devices on the floor maps to visualize your wireless network coverage.
You can change the site hierarchy for unprovisioned devices while preserving AP locations on floor maps. Note, however, that you can't move an existing floor to a different building.
To get started, build your network hierarchy using one of the following methods:
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Create a new network hierarchy. For more information, see Create a New Network Hierarchy.
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Import an existing network hierarchy from Cisco Prime Infrastructure or Ekahau Pro. For more information, see Use an Existing Cisco Network Hierarchy or Use an Existing Ekahau Network Hierarchy.