topic Hi George,Thank you for your in Wireless

Email alerts to know if the Wi-Fi APs are on-line or not

q-le — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 09:41:31 GMT

Hi ALL,

we have a WLC 5508 and over 100 APs (mainly 3702 and 1142 AP)

How do we get an alert or email if one of the AP died or someone disconnect them ?

Any advice are much appreciated,

Thanks

Peter

If you have prime you can set

George Stefanick — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 12:32:58 GMT

If you have prime you can set up alerts that way. If you don't the wlc doesn't offer this but if you have a fancy syslog with alerting you could aggregate the syslog from the wlc and have the syslog manage it .. You could also use like a solar winds and add the ap to monitoring ..

Hi George,Thank you for your

q-le — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 05:28:33 GMT

Hi George,

Thank you for your reply,

We do not have Prime but we have Solarwinds and config the syslog as per attached

diagram.

How do we troubleshooting or find out if the WLC does send syslog over to Solarwinds ? We check Solarwind and do not see any logs when one of AP went down

Cheers,

qle

In solar winds you can add

George Stefanick — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 11:40:09 GMT

In solar winds you can add the access points by ip and if solar winds can't ping it, it will alert you. That simpler thank syslog ..

we are restricted by our

q-le — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 22:06:42 GMT

we are restricted by our license in Solarwind hence cannot add extra 120 APs.

IP into Solarwind

Well it seems like you need

Scott Fella — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 23:26:08 GMT

Well it seems like you need to increase the license if you want to monitor the AP's. Maybe monitor the switch port the AP's are connected to since your switches are being monitored. The AP's can't be setup for snmp if lightweight. Even though you can get it to work initially (not recommended), a reboot will set the AP's back to normal mode in which snmp will not work.

-Scott

Sorry for my ignorant here

q-le — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 23:53:01 GMT

Sorry for my ignorant here but if Solarwind can pick up error logs from WLC.

why can't we somehow set up the WLC to send error logs to Solarwind when one of the APs die or disconnected.

Otherwise our best and only option is to monitor the switch port as suggested.

Thanks

You can send staking from the

Scott Fella — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 00:50:14 GMT

You can send staking from the controller, but are you going to parse through all that info? Why not try it out and see if what the controller sends is what you can use if it isn't, then you don't have any choice, than to get more licenses or get Prime Infrastructure.

-Scott

I did try but the info is not

q-le — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 01:54:11 GMT

I did try but the info is not very usefull so we are going to get more License for Solarwind.

is Prime Infrastructure the best solution for monitoring APs ?

Thanks

You can install that on a VM

Scott Fella — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 02:24:55 GMT

You can install that on a VM and use an eval license. This way you can see what it does and determine if it's something you can use.

-Scott

Thank you all for your help

q-le — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 02:37:32 GMT

Thank you all for your help.

Manager approved for more license & will try out Prime

Very much appreciated for all responses.

Qle

You can also look at a

George Stefanick — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 02:44:47 GMT

You can also look at a product called airwave. It's a lot cheaper then prime. Prime is good if you want all this cisco bells. If you don't need them check airwave ..

We use Nagios. It is open

rsaeks — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 15:48:11 GMT

We use Nagios. It is open source and has some nice customizations you can work with as well as extend to other services such as SMB, telnet, ssh checking, etc.