Network Hierarchy Overview
You can create a network hierarchy that represents your network's geographical locations. Your network hierarchy can contain sites, which in turn contain buildings and areas. You can create site and building IDs to easily identify where to apply design settings or configurations later. By default, there is one site called Global.
The network hierarchy has a predetermined hierarchy:
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Areas or Sites do not have a physical address, such as the United States. You can think of areas as the largest element. Areas can contain buildings and subareas. For example, an area called United States can contain a subarea called California, and the subarea California can contain a subarea called San Jose.
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Buildings have a physical address and contain floors and floor plans. When you create a building, you must specify a physical address and latitude and longitude coordinates. Buildings cannot contain areas. By creating buildings, you can apply settings to a specific area.
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Floors are within buildings and consist of cubicles, walled offices, wiring closets, and so on. You can add floors only to buildings.
You can change the site hierarchy for unprovisioned devices while preserving AP locations on sitemaps. Note, however, that you cannot move an existing floor to a different building.
The following is a list of tasks that you can perform:
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Create a new network hierarchy. For more information, see Create a Site in a Network Hierarchy.
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Upload an existing network hierarchy from Cisco Prime Infrastructure. For more information, see Upload an Existing Site Hierarchy.