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Hello community,I just spun up a Cisco Catalyst 9800-CL Wireless Controller 17.18.1 on ESXi in my home lab, and I have a brand new CW9178I out of the box. Once I finished setting up the controller I plugged the AP into my switch on a port that can se...
Hello,We have a Cisco 9800-CL (as VMs on VSphere, large deployment) configured in HA - SSO with around 980 access points registered.We want to upgrade it from version 17.3.5b to 17.12.5.I was checking the pre-download option for the image to minimize...
Hello, I have 2 9124AXE-B I am trying to set up and get mesh working on. I am using a 9800 on version 17.12.5. I cannot get the mesh tab to show up or even get the ap in bridge mode, I have the mac in the Device Authentication mac address list like s...
Resolved! AP 9130 AXI-e in EWC
Hi I have an ap 9130 I want to run an wlc in EWC mode. I followed this guide However when I cmd ap-type ewc-ap tftp://192.168.0.82/ap1g6a tftp://192.168.0.82/C9800-AP-iosxe-wlc.bin Image upgrade not needed, changing AP Type to EWC-APa show version AP...
Hello,Hello,I have an AP that I connected to a Cisco WLC 9800 and it is now part of the wireless environment. While the AP remains registered to the WLC, can I access it and run the ap-type ewc-ap command to convert it to an EWC AP and place it on a ...
Hi Community,I have configured Local Web Authentication on our Cisco 9800 WLC for the Guest SSID. However, when users connect to the Guest SSID, the client device is displaying the security type as “None”.Please find the attached snapshot for your re...
I haven’t touched Cisco wireless in years and will soon be deploying it to many sites. Was a bit familiar with the 5500 wlc and such but the new Cisco 9800 seem a whole new world. Anyway what training/books and or learning material can I use to get u...
Hello Cisco WLAN experts,I tryin to understand packet flow between our 9800-80-WLC and a 9800-L-C-Guest WLC and started a simple paket capture like the following one on one of the interfaces of a Port channel on the 9800-L-C Version 17.3.6To my surpr...
Resolved! 9800 per slot RF Profile
I would like the ability to assign an RF Profile on a per-slot basis within the RF Tag. Am I being thick and missing the feature? For example: 5ghz Slot 1 assigned an RF Profile with 9 channel DCA plan (no UNII-2) and 5ghz Slot 2 assigned an RF Pr...
9800-40/80 17.15.4 running local MDNS gateway drops all MDNS advertisements, services are being learned and cached correctly from wired sources but advertisements are always being dropped before they go out to clients. Can observe this happening in m...
Hi All-This is my first attempt to register / configure my new CW9176I AP to a Cat9800-CL controller. I have plenty of 9164s registered, but don't quite understand the 9176 boot sequence. It boots up, and get power:c3850-1u#show power inline gi1/0/...
SCENARIO: A mix of physical and virtual Cisco 9800 wireless controllers in a wireless mobility anchoring configuration for guest tunneling of different SSIDs. The controllers are running 17.15.3 version of IOS XE. Approximately 150-200 APs in the ...
Hi can anyone let me know where can I find the release notes for the 17.9.4a version for 9800-L-F? I do not see it published.
Hello,Hopefully my question is a simple one - I have a 9800L with an enterprise SSID and a guest SSID, which is anchored. It has been built from the ground up using DNAC. Application telemetry has been enabled on all SSID types, I can see the configu...
Hello Everyone,Intro:I recently took a job at a small junior college as a support specialist to be trained as a wireless networking manager as my primary task. I am new to the wireless network side of things but have caught on quickly. I will give th...
