FortiAPs and AutoTX/Auto Channel

[roo]

Hi Guys....I'm a stranger in this town, dyed in the wool Cisco and Meraki wireless designer/operator but I've been tasked with looking at a Fortinet installation. I'm pretty sure from RF indications that the channels and TX powers that the APs are set to is not being managed automatically (several interfering APs not changing channel/power when they can see each other). Is there documentation that will show me how to set up and manage Automatic Radio Resource Management? I know what I want to do, done it before on Cisco/Meraki/Aruba, and could probably fumble my way through if this was not a customer's production network, but I'm being a bit careful

Thanks for any help!

[pwanakal]

I'm not going to claim to be an expert, but I found I had much better results when I turned on Radio Resource Provisioning and used Auto TX Power Control as opposed to manual. This is done from the FortiAP Profile

[roo]

Hi Pwanakl

That's what I want to do, make it all happen automatically, I just don't know how to do it!

Anyone got any good ideas?

[ebilcari · Accepted solution]

You can take a look to DARRP, a feature that is disabled by default.

[roo]

Hi Ebilcari, That looks like the thing I was looking for. There is an element of confusion, however: you mentioned it is disabled by default, but the docs suggest otherwise: "The DARRP feature is disabled by default." at https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortiap/7.4.4/fortiwifi-and-fortiap-configuration-guide/299720

Are you able to confirm one way or another? The documents also suggest this has to be done via the CLI, which is fine, but is there also a way to do it via the GUI?

Thanks

[roo]

Excuse my stupidity.....there is no confusion except in my head....Sorrym, trying to do too mnany things at once. The second question is still valid, though: Is it possible to enable it by GUI?

[ebilcari]

For now I don't think it's possible via GUI, later it may be included in Advanced Wireless Features.