About the Navigator and Location Folders

In Discover, the Navigator enables you to organize your wireless deployment into a hierarchical structure and simplifies management of geographically distributed networks. For example, you can organize your locations by country, cities, buildings, functional departments, and floors.

To simplify management of your Wi-Fi networks, location subfolders inherit the SSID profiles, device settings, and security policies from the parent location folder. This also enables you to create a custom configuration for a specific location folder.

In Discover, click System > Navigator to view and manage your location folders.

When new APs are deployed, they appear by default in the Staging Area folder.

Add a New Folder

You can add new location folders to create an organizational structure for your Wi-Fi network.

To add a new location folder:

1. In Discover, select System > Navigator.
2. Right-click an existing folder, then select Add Folder/Floor. To add multiple folders and floors at the same time, click Add Multiple Folders/Floors.
3. Type the name of the new location folder or floor, then click Add.

Move an AP to a New Folder

You can add new location folders and move your new APs from the Staging Area folder or existing APs in any folder to a new folder.

To move an AP to a new location folder:

1. Open Discover.
2. Select System > Navigator.
3. Right-click the location folder, then select Show Available Devices.

4. From the Access Points list, right-click the AP to move, then select Move. Select the new location folder, then click Move.