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AP Serial Number Summary from WLC

dseagren1 — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 00:00:45 GMT

I'm just wondering if there is a way to get an output of the serial numbers of all the APs connected to a WLC. I know they can be individually found in the WLC web interface or through the CLI but i'm hoping to find a way to see them all.

thanks

Re: AP Serial Number Summary from WLC

Scott Fella — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:44:01 GMT

Try show ap inventory

Re: AP Serial Number Summary from WLC

wesleyterry — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 05:09:14 GMT

WCS has an AP report that shows the serial numbers for all of the APs. But If you do not have WCS, and are just using the WLCs, I don't think there is a way.

The quickest way I can think of to get all of the AP Serial Numbers in a case without WCS would be to get the AP Summary (so you have a list of all AP names)

And then make a text document that has all of the "show ap inventory " commands

If you SSH into the WLC, and paste your list of "show AP inventory "

You will get a very simple inventory report. Maybe you could copy all of that then and parse through it. It at least saves you the time of manually doing each one in the CLI, or manually click on each AP in the GUI...

Re: AP Serial Number Summary from WLC

SUJA_1978 — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 10:16:23 GMT

For my the best command is show ap summary

Re: AP Serial Number Summary from WLC

aogston — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 15:43:15 GMT

Hi.

On our 5520's and 8540's, sh ap summary does not show the serial number of the AP's.

I use grep include tory|SN: "show ap inventory all"

Regards,

Andy.

Re: AP Serial Number Summary from WLC

yingyuwang — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 16:36:54 GMT

You can use logging and store ssh output in plain-text, clean up the data in notepad++ and paste them into Excel.

Re: AP Serial Number Summary from WLC

ahemad — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 11:15:44 GMT

Thanks.

Re: AP Serial Number Summary from WLC

Marcio Ciano — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 19:10:02 GMT

Hi Scott!

I´m trying to find the AP SN on 9800 WLC, but this model does not have a "show ap inventory" command. I haven´t find it on GUI too.

Do you know a way to find it?

Thanks!

Marcio

Re: AP Serial Number Summary from WLC

Arshad Safrulla — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 20:14:55 GMT

In Catalyst WLC's;

show ap config general | i AP Serial Number|AP Model

In essence, you can find the serial number under the output for command show ap config general. You can filter the parameters you want using pipe.

Re: AP Serial Number Summary from WLC

Marcio Ciano — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 14:43:38 GMT

Thank you Arshad, it help me a lot!

Re: AP Serial Number Summary from WLC

vasuandvasu619 — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 09:18:46 GMT

config paging enable

grep include "PID:" "show ap inventory all"

This command will give all serial numbers, just copy and past it in Excel sheet. In Excel Data menu, there is an option text to columns-> it will open a popup and click next ->next

Re: AP Serial Number Summary from WLC

agrissimanis — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 10:22:18 GMT

On Cat 9800 you can also get this from the GUI, under Monitoring -> AP statistics, add Serial Number column and then just export the whole list as .csv - nice and easy. This is on 17.6.4.

Re: AP Serial Number Summary from WLC

edie.martinez1 — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 00:05:08 GMT

excellent, you can get the serial numbers of the 100 access points that belong to my network with this command, thank you very much

Re: AP Serial Number Summary from WLC

CSCO11514622 — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 08:07:00 GMT

Tank You very much Arshad

You can also bind this command : for exemple inventory

alias exec inventory show ap config general | i Cisco AP Name|AP Serial Number|AP Model|Cisco AP Identifier

WLC01#inventory
Cisco AP Name : AP_01
Cisco AP Identifier : ac2a.xxxx.xxx1
AP Model : C9120AXI-E
AP Serial Number : FCWyyyyyyyy
Cisco AP Name : AP_02
Cisco AP Identifier : ac2a.xxxx.xxx2
AP Model : C9120AXI-E
AP Serial Number : FCWyyyyyyyy

etc...

Re: AP Serial Number Summary from WLC

gustavo.a.sosa — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 21:03:17 GMT

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Re: AP Serial Number Summary from WLC

marlo-kent — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 17:52:19 GMT

How do you add the serial number column. I don't see anywhere to do that.

Re: AP Serial Number Summary from WLC

sanamumeshmehta — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 23:05:55 GMT

Thanks Arshad. The Solution was very helpful and has saved a lot of time for us. Well done!!

Re: AP Serial Number Summary from WLC

eng amr fouad — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 08:26:20 GMT

I personally use the following command
show ap config general | i AP Serial Number|Cisco AP Name

回复： AP Serial Number Summary from WLC

FFFFFFFaTING — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 10:03:40 GMT

hey everybody ! the solution is here. in monitor,edit colunms,and select SN,then export to excel,or you can show ap name xxx inventory via cli.

Re: AP Serial Number Summary from WLC

shajji05 — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 08:23:02 GMT

Yes, this worked for me as well.