Add AP By Serial

[JasonGorman1808]

I've stood up a new WLC 9800CL at our data center with a bunch of APs sitting boxed at multiple branches. Is there a way to add these APs to the WLC via serial number? Just trying to grasp how to add these APs once they're powered on.

Thanks in advance

[marce1000]

  - Do you currently have the need to authenticate APs to the controller , otherwise the standard methodology is to let them discover the controller with DHCP and or with the use of DHCP option 43 to let them discover the controller IP address (?)
  Well to add ; so what we need to do then is  ,to  get a csv from  their mac addresses and feed that into our infoblox dhcp server/service with their import tools.

 M.

[Leo Laohoo]

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@JasonGorman1808 wrote:
Is there a way to add these APs to the WLC via serial number?

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Renaming the AP name based on the Serial Number was a feature in AireOS and this feature was not "ported" over to IOS-XE.  

I strongly suggest getting the MAC address of each AP because, depending on the firmware of the controller, every AP will start with the name "APaaaa.bbbb.cccc".  

If, however, the controller is on 17.12.X (and later), the default AP name will be "APaaaa-bbbb-cccc".