topic Re: Enabling BLE radio on a Cisco 4800 AP in Wireless

Enabling BLE radio on a Cisco 4800 AP

Muhammed Adnan — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 17:46:41 GMT

Hello,

I could not find single consolidated document for Enabling the BLE radio on a 4800 AP.

Appreciate if I could please get the responses to below queries:

BLE Manager account not a necessity for enabling the BLE radio on a 4800 AP and can be enabled directly through CMX and WLC?
How do we enable the BLE radio on a 4800 Access Point? (The configuration on WLC & CMX)
How do we configure the BLE beacon profile and from where the “BLE Beacon Profile” needs to be configured (CMX / WLC)?

Re: Enabling BLE radio on a Cisco 4800 AP

Leo Laohoo — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 08:13:18 GMT

Contact your Cisco AM/SE.
To enable BLE, you'll need access to DNA Spaces or Web CMX.

Re: Enabling BLE radio on a Cisco 4800 AP

Muhammed Adnan — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 11:17:09 GMT

Thanks Leo for your response.

However based off the Cisco WLC 8.8 config guide, DNA Spaces BLE manager account is a requirement only to manage BLE USB dongle.

Could not find in any documentation that the BLE manager account is required even for the BLE radios integrated into APs like 4800 APs.

Do we require BLE manager account even for enabling and configure the BLE profiles for 4800 APs?

Re: Enabling BLE radio on a Cisco 4800 AP

Leo Laohoo — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 11:25:28 GMT

Muhammed, contact your Cisco AM/SE.
To enable BLE, you'll need access to DNA Spaces or Web CMX.
That is all I am going to say.

Re: Enabling BLE radio on a Cisco 4800 AP

maarten.cuff — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 03:16:36 GMT

Any updates to this now it's 2021?

Re: Enabling BLE radio on a Cisco 4800 AP

Muhammed Adnan — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 05:45:18 GMT

Hello Maarten,

The enabling of BLE radio on Cisco APs with BLE radio could not be facilitated through native configuration on the APs / WLCs / CMX.

Enabling the BLE radio can only be facilitated by cloud based solution, DNA Spaces (Initially was facilitated by BLE Manager account, but that option is now obsolete).

Cisco DNA Spaces - BLE Management will allow you to define the AP beacon in beacon protocol you wish and accordingly push the template to the list of APs you choose.

Regards

Adnan

Re: Enabling BLE radio on a Cisco 4800 AP

Leo Laohoo — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 09:24:08 GMT

You also need to say that ONLY 9800 WLC is supported. 3504/5520/8540 controllers are not supported.

Re: Enabling BLE radio on a Cisco 4800 AP

Alex Cortes — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 19:44:16 GMT

Based in the DNAS datasheet Aironet is supported, can you share mode details?
"Use Cisco DNA Spaces Connector to connect to Cisco Aironet WLC 8.0 and Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series WLC 16.12.1 and above"

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/wireless/dna-spaces/datasheet-c78-741786.html

Re: Enabling BLE radio on a Cisco 4800 AP

Leo Laohoo — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 22:47:30 GMT

We were told by our SE that BLE is disabled on AireOS, regardless the controller firmware.
BLE is enabled on IOS-XE platform.

I believe the Data Sheet is not totally accurate.