topic Re: Locating and Mapping APs in Wireless

Locating and Mapping APs

jmaurer1205 — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 00:17:28 GMT

Is there software that I can locate and map my AP location and mac address. Even being able to walk around and find the AP with accuracy would be nice.

I have been crawling around in the ceilings trying to locate and each AP. The Vender did not do a good job with documentation.

Re: Locating and Mapping APs

jeff.kish — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:57:00 GMT

Try AirMagnet Survey. It's a great product that will produce a heatmap showing wireless signal. I use it all the time to pinpoint AP locations. It does it by AP name or MAC address.

Re: Locating and Mapping APs

Leo Laohoo — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:47:01 GMT

You can identify the AP by enabling/disabling the LED. The command is "config ap led-state enable ".

Re: Locating and Mapping APs

jeff.kish — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:02:32 GMT

Leo, do you happen to know whether you can make the LEDs blink in lightweight? I know the option exists in autonomous, but I've never found the option on a controller.

Re: Locating and Mapping APs

Leo Laohoo — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:45:10 GMT

Hi Jeff,

The command "config ap led-state enable " will disable/enable the LED. By default, it's enabled.

So if you disable it, the Status LED (aka "mood ring") would stop flashing.

Re: Locating and Mapping APs

Leo Laohoo — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:21:32 GMT

Jeff,

Found another way. Enable telnet access to the AP and do the same method: "led flash "

To disable, "led flash disable".

Is this what you are looking for?

Re: Locating and Mapping APs

jeff.kish — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:43:54 GMT

Perfect, that's what I've never been able to find. Thanks for the answer! Any idea if you can do it from the GUI?

Re: Locating and Mapping APs

Leo Laohoo — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:30:40 GMT

Jeff,

First off, thanks for the rating.

Unfortunately, you can't enable either one of the options by GUI. Why can't Cisco get this incorporated, I have no idea.

Re: Locating and Mapping APs

jmaurer1205 — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:13:39 GMT

AirMagnet should work for me. The other information is helpful and could have used it with the other APs in the other buildings, they were in the open. The ones I am currently looking for are in the ceiling where I cant see them.

Re: Locating and Mapping APs

jeff.kish — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:23:44 GMT

Yeah, that's pretty lame. At least the functionality is there, I never knew it was. I'm a CLI person when it comes to autonomous APs, but I rarely use the CLI for controllers. I guess I keep holding off learning it thinking they're going to make it into IOS in some form, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen.

Re: Locating and Mapping APs

Leo Laohoo — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:14:09 GMT

Hi Jeff,

When it comes to WLC, I switched my allegiance to CLI because I found out (after pulling half of my hair out) that there were alot of functions that were present in CLI than GUI. What makes is strange is the fact that when you go into a Cisco-certified WLAN training, they won't teach you CLI.

I haven't gone to the training but my colleagues who went don't even know half of the CLI that I know.

Weird isn't it?