topic Cisco WLC 9800 AP Groups in Wireless

Cisco WLC 9800 AP Groups

tcartledge — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 08:44:17 GMT

Hi All,

How are you using AP Groups on the Cisco 9800 WLC setup? on Aireos (the 8500 WLC in this case) we had multiple AP groups used at a site to define the settings for a selection of AP's for different area's of that site e.g. office, manufacturing (in this case broadcasting specific SSID's only), however with the 9800 you have policies which you assign to a site and a wlan but it does not look like there is a way to split those into different area's.

Cheers
Tim

Re: Cisco WLC 9800 AP Groups

Mark Elsen — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 09:59:17 GMT

- On the 9800 you have the AP Join Profile ,to mark characteristics for a specific set of APs to be used as such; also checkout : https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless/controller/9800/technical-reference/c9800-best-practices.html#Roamingbetweenpolicytags
>...Policy tags are used to decide which SSID is being broadcasted by which AP and with what policy, so they define the broadcast domain for a group of APs. In this, the policy tag is very similar to the concept of AP group in AireOS.

Anyway when configuring the 9800 , you can always validate it's configuration with the CLI command show tech wireless and feed the output from that into : Wireless Config Analyzer
Note use the full command denoted in green; do not use show tech for this procedure,
'To be used at all times!

Re: Cisco WLC 9800 AP Groups

tcartledge — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 10:33:59 GMT

Thanks of the details, that makes sense.