Catalyst 3850 wsma agent

[as00001111]

Hey guys,

I have a catalyst 3850 and there are the following lines in the running config:

wsma agent exec
 profile httplistener
 profile httpslistener
!
wsma agent config
 profile httplistener
 profile httpslistener
!
wsma agent filesys
 profile httplistener
 profile httpslistener
!
wsma agent notify
 profile httplistener
 profile httpslistener
!
!
wsma profile listener httplistener
 transport http
!
wsma profile listener httpslistener
 transport https
!
ap group default-group

My questions are:

Do I need these lines?

What are they useful for?

What is the wsma agent?

After some reading in the internet, I found out that I can connect to my 3850 with http://IP/wireless.

I was connected to a wireless controller site.

I have never seen this before.

What is this all about?

Thanks for some helpful explanation!

[Reza Sharifi]

Hi,

So, the 3850 series switches can work as wireless controllers and support limited number of APs.

Product Overview

●   Integrated wireless controller capability with:

◦     Up to 40G of wireless capacity per switch (48-port RJ45 models)

◦     Support for up to 100 access points and 2000 wireless clients on each switching entity (switch or stack)

link:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/catalyst-3850-series-switches/data_sheet_c78-720918.html

HTH

[Suresh K Perumalla]

WSMA standa for Web services Management Agent. This is a new feature embedded in Cisco 3850 IOS XE rom based catOS switch. The main purpose of WSMA is to control, configure, manage and access the swtich via web services i.e. via a webpage in your browser. And I guess the intension of this feature by Cisco is for SDN controller compatible either via PRIME or APIC-EM. Those lines you have mentioned should be default configuration with switch (or) you can configure them again for switch to act as agent to listen and run web based transactions using HTTP, TLS& SSH. So the WSMA function is faster than normal CLI command push. Hope this helps. :)

[makefe05]

Is there a way to disable this feature?