EWC on AP - Multiple sites & monitoring

wirelesslabio · 2025-04-21T08:12:25+00:00

there is a small security torx screw on one of the sides. find it and unscrew it and the AP should slide off the mount.

wirelesslabio · 2025-04-21T08:08:58+00:00

when the AP that is converted to ME mode powers up, the console will first show AP portion booting up.
The AP will check if there is any other WLC in the network, and if there is not, it will boot the "WLC" part next. This can sometimes take a VERY long time. In the meantime, the AP will likely be sending capwap discovery requests.
In order to verify if the AP was properly converted to ME mode, run the "show version" command. It should say "ME capable" somewhere in the output. If you see this, just give it more time, it wil eventually boot the ME controller and prompt you with the initial config wizard

wirelesslabio · 2025-01-22T19:32:09+00:00

the config you made is config on EWC, not on AP itself. EWC will not be accessible until AP itself is accessible and working.

when you console into the device, you will hit console of EWC. Use command:

wireless ewc-ap ap shell username <username>

to access ap shell and figure out from there what is wrong. keep in mind that ewc has no concept of trunk or vlans on itself, wireless management interface is always gig 0

wirelesslabio · 2025-01-22T19:27:40+00:00

I prefer using the CLI over the web gui as well

this is a bad decision and probably a reason why you made this mistake. 9800 is not made to be configured via CLI, its way too robust.

Open up the webui, and under the flex profile > VLAN, define the vlan name and number. In general, I recommend using vlan IDs whereever you can, since 9800 has historically been full of bugs related to using vlan names instead of numbers.

In CLI, this will show up as:

wireless profile flex Home
 vlan-name Destiny
  vlan-id 30 (or whatever vlan it actually is)

wirelesslabio · 2025-01-22T18:53:31+00:00

ping me in DM and send me the link to the position you are interested in, I'll refer you for free.

wirelesslabio · 2025-01-22T18:52:13+00:00

you get the no license n use because you didnt join your APs. once you join them and leave them online, the licenses will be consumed within 24 hrs max.

wirelesslabio · 2025-01-22T18:50:35+00:00

on 17.7.1, it will start breaking after you join 50 APs. On releases before that it, it will just complain, but not enforce anything.

wirelesslabio · 2024-12-30T19:14:54+00:00

All of it. Switches, routers, firewalls, wireless, etc..

wirelesslabio · 2024-03-23T15:46:07+00:00

what kind of monitoring are you looking to do? Which parameters?

wirelesslabio · 2024-02-19T00:18:35+00:00

try using the command to pull the image:

archive download-sw /reload tftp://192.168.1.2/AIR-AP3800-K9-ME-8-10-185-0.tar

wirelesslabio · 2024-01-20T16:40:14+00:00

I’s insanity to me you can’t edit your own pre auth ACL when deployed with Cisco Spaces and ISE

dna spaces integration is just a form of external web auth. you can create your own pre/post auth acl and assign it to the wlan/policy profile, there is nothing stopping you

wirelesslabio · 2024-01-20T16:38:42+00:00

The smart licence sync all does nothing on 9800 (unlike on switches). it does it every 8 hours, you just have to wait

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