topic Re: Creating Wireless SSIDs C9800-CL Controller in Wireless

Creating Wireless SSIDs C9800-CL Controller

tppatrick1 — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 07:57:13 GMT

Hi all,

Can you please assist with how to create 2 SSIDs on C9800-CL

I have created 1 SSID Admim-HQ, and it works fine. The problem start when I add a 2nd SSID named Architect-Dept. These two departments are located in the same building and use the same APs. The goal is to have two separate SSIDs for these two departments.

I created my SSIDs Using the advanced workflow, and I only created the mandatory tags WLAN Profile, Policy Profile, and Policy Tag. The other options I left them at default.

WLAN Profile: Admim-HQ
Description: For Admin-HQ

Policy Pofile: Admin-HQ
Description: For Admin-HQ

Policy tag: Admim-HQ
Description: For Admin-HQ

Lastly, I will add the APs into
Tags APs
Policy: Admim-HQ
Site: default-site-tag
RF: default-rf-tag

Second SSID

WLAN Profile: Architect-Dept
Description: For Architect-Dept

Policy Pofile: Architect-Dept
Description: For Architect-Dept

Policy tag: Architect-Dept
Description: For Architect-Dept

Lastly, I will add the APs into
Tags APs
Policy: Architect-Dept
Site: default-site-tag
RF: default-rf-tag

Once this is done it's either both SSIDs disappear or I only see the one created last. With one SSID everything works perfectly fine, so I am not sure where I am going wrong and how should I fix it.

Thanks in advanced for any assistance to resolve this issue - it's been 3 days now trying to figure out this.

Patrick

Re: Creating Wireless SSIDs C9800-CL Controller

pieterh — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 10:45:31 GMT

Policy tag: Admim-HQ
Policy tag: Architect-Dept
-> that's where you go wrong, you can only assing a single policy tag to an access point

you must add both WLAN profiles to the same policy tag
WLAN Profile: Admim-HQ
WLAN Profile: Architect-Dept
Policy tag: Main_Building -> assign this tag to the access point

Re: Creating Wireless SSIDs C9800-CL Controller

tppatrick1 — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 13:07:06 GMT

Hi @pieterh,

Thank you so much for your quick response. So, do I have to do it like the below?

WLAN Profile: Admim-HQ
Description: For Admin-HQ

Policy Pofile: Admin-HQ
Description: For Admin-HQ

Policy tag: Main_Building

WLAN Profile: Architect-Dept
Description: For Architect-Dept

Policy Pofile: Architect-Dept
Description: For Architect-Dept

Policy tag: Main_Building

Thank you very much

Regards,

Patrick

Re: Creating Wireless SSIDs C9800-CL Controller

Mark Elsen — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 13:16:21 GMT

- Note that during configuring attempts on the C9800-CL controller , you can always have the intended configuration reviewed and analyzed with the CLI command : show tech wireless , feed the output into https://cway.cisco.com/wireless-config-analyzer/ , look for advisories and of course correct all errors if indicated (red flagged) , the usage of the tool is strongly advised ,

Re: Creating Wireless SSIDs C9800-CL Controller

tppatrick1 — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 13:28:02 GMT

Hi @Mark Elsen

Thank you much appreciated

Re: Creating Wireless SSIDs C9800-CL Controller

pieterh — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 14:25:30 GMT

yes you can
some remark: don't make it more complex than necessary
if you do create two policy-profiles then you are set for different profile configuration per department in the future
but if the only difference is the SSID name, (same method of authentication etc.) then a single policy profile may be sufficient
after all if both policy-profiles need to be the same you need to guard that every change is made to both profiles

WLAN Profile: Admin-HQ Policy Pofile: MyCompanies-profile
WLAN Profile: Architect-Dept Policy Pofile: MyCompanies-profile
Policy tag: Main_Building

Re: Creating Wireless SSIDs C9800-CL Controller

tppatrick1 — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 15:00:01 GMT

Hi @pieterh,

Once again thank you. I will provide feedback tomorrow.

Patrick

Re: Creating Wireless SSIDs C9800-CL Controller

tppatrick1 — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 19:01:48 GMT

Hi @pieterh

I'm sorry I didn't come back with feedback on time. I ended up not completing that task. I encountered some issues, outside of this work but am now prepared to complete it. Please review the attached document and provide feedback on where I may be going wrong, as I could not get it working today. Feel free to make any necessary edits to the document.

Thank you in advance!

Re: Creating Wireless SSIDs C9800-CL Controller

pieterh — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 07:14:21 GMT

As said before, you can assign only ONE policy tag to your access point
if all access points need to transmit both WLAN's, you only need to create a single policy tag

Adding Policy Tag
Name [Admin_HQ] ~~Name [Admin_HQ]~~
Description [For Architect_Dept] ~~Description [For Architect_Dept]~~

Tag APs
Policy [Admin_HQ] ~~Policy [Architect_Dept]~~
Site [default-tag] ~~Site [default-tag]~~
RF [default] ~~RF[default]~~

Re: Creating Wireless SSIDs C9800-CL Controller

tppatrick1 — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 13:23:02 GMT

Hi @pieterh

Thank you very much for your help. I will be implementing your suggestions on Monday next week and will confirm once it's done. Your support is greatly appreciated.