Getting hostnames in addition to usernames from WLC CLI

[trondaker]

Hi,

Because of the way we have our PKI set up, the username of all our mobility clients show a common "username" from the certificate. If I search for the MAC-address on the WLC I can see both a username and a hostname. In this hostname field we have the actual machinename that I can map to actual user in Intune. Is it any way to extract this through the show client-command in the CLI? We extract ap/client-information and present it in a separate frontend for tech-support workers, and this hostname field would help a lot

[trondaker]

WLC 8540 running 8.3.143 btw.

[Leo Laohoo]

Upgrade to 8.5.140.0 and see if it makes any difference.
Make sure to read the Release Notes because it will provide detailed information about what models of APs are supported.

[trondaker]

Cant find anything related to that in the release notes, and its a big deployment that have had some instability with 8.5.x before so reluctant to upgrade if its not guaranteed to be in there:O

[patoberli]

On 8.5.140.0 there is a hostname field in the "show client detail mac-address" output, not sure if it already has existed in 8.3.x.
To have it filled out, you might need to enable the profiling options on the SSID.

[trondaker]

I see, was hoping that it would be a new field to the "show client summary" as a manual retrieval of 25000 show client detail is a problematic task :) Might not be possible then, but thanks for the feedback!

[patoberli]

I don't know of a way.
It sadly also isn't possible on 8.8.120.0:
show client summary ?
<ssid / ip / username / devicetype / security / ipsk-tag> Displays active clients selective details on anyone (OR) all of parameters <ssid, ip, username, devicetype, ipsk-tag> requested in any order.