01-24-2020 09:20 AM - edited 07-05-2021 11:35 AM
Hi together, i am new in this community and hopefully i have a easy question for you experts, but i am working hours on it and can´t figure out what is wrong.
I have running a wlc 5500 with 16 AP´s, different VLans for different ISP, everything is running fine.
But now i have to connect a low-cost Alarm System (Reseller: Pearl), to connect this System into a WLan you have to download a app on a Smartphone, connect the Smartphone to the Wlan the Alarm System should join, give the App the WPA2 key, and start the "Connect-Process" on both Systems. This is working fine with a Wlan Hotspot, a lowcost Accesspoint (Dlink) but not with the WLC. Is there an option or function to provide such features?
Many thanks in advance!
Greetz
01-24-2020 10:59 PM
- You mean WPA2 with a PSK (pre shared key) probably ; you will need to create a WLAN , with support for the particular PSK , check this document :
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/wireless-mobility/wireless-lan-wlan/116880-config-wpa2-psk-00.html#anc7
M.
02-02-2020 03:59 AM
Hello,
thanks for your answer.
I tried this several times, and however this is working for all Clients and mobiles, but not for the Alarm System.
Again, in the Alarm-System i cannot select a SSID or configure any WLAN Settings, only a button with "Connect". So there must be an Option that allows the WLC to let the System connect via a authentifikation over the Android-App that is connected over the same WLAN. I am working now with wiresharp and the WLC log files but didn´t find anything useful so far, nobody knows this connection technology "providing credentials over another system"?
Greetz.
02-02-2020 04:28 AM
- It seems that the provisioning mechanism is incompatible with the cisco-controller based environment. You may want to contact the support services of the alarm system to get more help.
M.
02-02-2020 06:19 AM
02-02-2020 06:45 AM
Thanks for your replies,
I have never seen such a provisioning by myself before, and i already talked to the Visortech-Support, but nobody can help me.
It´s hard to understand why it is working with a fritzbox wlan, also with a mobilephone-hotspot the device is joining, but not in a wlc distributed Wlan. Anybody Ideas in which Layer this is done? Are the DHPC Settings relevant?
02-02-2020 08:55 AM
- I have doubts at to whether this can get resolved because in the end the client connects to an SSID in a not standard manner. I presume the controller-based environment is more hardened to prevent such unwanted connection schemes. What you could do is examine the controller-logs when you press connect on the app and or at the same time enable client (mac) debugging for the phone-app and the alarm system. Check if anything get's blocked. DHCP is not an issue here.
M.
02-02-2020 10:15 AM
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