topic Client Association in Wireless

Client Association

Azeem Dawood — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 07:23:37 GMT

Hi there,

In my enterprise we have 3 Cisco Access Points connected one is 1250 Series and two are 1140 series. But none of them are displaying the name of the client associated to it, if a client is a andriod, iphone, laptop etc. What shall i do to get this feature? Do i have to upgrade the firmware or is it a matter of some configuration on Access Point?

Pls suggest the best opinion.

Regards,

Azeem

Client Association

grabonlee — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 09:58:22 GMT

The username will not display as the only information the client sends across is the matching encryption key during authentication. If you want devices to display hostnames, then you have to join them to your domain, then use EAP with machine based authentication. For non-corporate devices, I would suggest you use EAP-TLS. However, for a small network like yours, I would rather stick to using pre-shared key authentication. If you had Cisco Prime Infrastructure, it would tell you not only the type of device connected (which WCS can also do), but other information such as the device operating system, e.t.c.

Like I mentioned earlier, you have a small wireless network within a building, so no need buying Cisco Prime, however going for EAP authentication method is your choice.

Client Association

Azeem Dawood — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 10:27:51 GMT

Thanks i will try n see.

Re: Client Association

Scott Fella — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 12:07:31 GMT

Is the AP's lightweight or autonomous?

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