Some 3850s showing up and switches AND wireless controllers

David Fitzgerald · ‎10-05-2016

I have a number of C3850s in production. I believe all of them (136) show up as switches in Prime 3.1. However, some of them (74) show up in Prime as Wireless Controllers as well.

None of them are configured to perform WLC functions. Why does Prime see some of them as WLCs?

I'm running v3.1 or Prime. IOS of switches is 03.03.03E or newer.

Bobby Stojceski · ‎10-06-2016

Whilst the Cisco bug doesn't identify 3.1 specifically, the bugs do not necessarily show all the affected releases. You might be hitting this bug - CSCup10143

David Fitzgerald · ‎10-07-2016

Interesting observation...

We were running Prime 3.0 and I updated some 3850s from 03.07.03E to 03.07.04E. Later, we updated Prime to 3.1. Later still, I updated some more 3850s from their current versions (mostly 03.07.03E) to 03.07.04E, and now, only the first batch of updated switches shown up both as WLCs and switches.

Maybe I just need to delete and ad them back (pain). It would be nice to know how Prime makes the determination if it is just a switch or both a switch and a WLC.

Bobby Stojceski · ‎10-09-2016

Yeah. I'm running Prime 3.1 with the latest device update and core update and my 3850 shows as a wireless controller too, even though it isn't one. No idea why it picks it up as one and always has.