The Access Points Template

The Access Points template (accesspoints-template.xls) lets you associate the name of a Vocera location with each of your access points, by using the MAC address of each access point.

All the locations must already exist in the database; the template does not create them. If a row in this data-loading template references an access point that does not exist, the row causes a validation error and does not load. Any other rows that successfully validate load properly.

Table 1. Access point fields

Field

Maximum Length

Description

Location Name

50

Enter the name of a location that already exists.

To qualify a location by specifying its site, use a colon to separate the value from the site name (LocationName:SiteName). If you do not specify a site, the Global site is used by default.

MAC Address

12

Enter the MAC address (12 hexadecimal characters) of the access point that you want to assign to this location.

To specify a range of MAC addresses that have the same first 11 characters, enter "0" for the 12th character. The "0" character is treated as a wildcard only in the 12th character of the MAC address.