Chapter 5: Preparing for installation
Testing system components
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Testing system components
The best practice is to connect all components—AP/BHM, SMs/BHS, GPS antenna (if applicable)
and CMM (if applicable)—in a test setting and initially configure and verify them before deploying
them to an installation. In this way, any configuration issues are worked out before going on-site,
on a tower, in the weather, where the discovery of configuration issues or marginal hardware is
more problematic and work-flow affecting.
Unpacking Components
When a delivery arrives, inspect all packages immediately for damages.
Carefully unpack the equipment, verify that all the components have arrived as per order and are
in good condition. Save all packaging materials for equipment transportation to the installation
site.
Preparing the ODU
After the equipment is unpacked, the units may be configured for staging tests.
Use either of two methods to configure an AP/BHM:
Use the Quick Start feature of the product (via GUI menu Quick Start)
Manually set each parameter
After changing configuration parameters on a GUI web page:
Before you leave a web page, click the Save button to save the change(s)
After making change(s) on multiple web pages, click the Reboot button to reboot the module
and implement the change(s)
Configuring the Computing Device for Test
If the computer is configured for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), disconnect the
computer from the network. If the computer is instead configured for static IP addressing
Set the static address in the 169.254 network
Set the subnet mask to 255.255.0.0.
For detailed instructions, see section
Configuring the management PC
on page
5-16
.
