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My organization purchased 2 Cisco 5700 series controllers, and 50 AP's. The Wireless controller was well configured buti still have not yet got the Access point to work with the controller (AIR-CT5760-50-K9). I have even configured the WLC with varyi...
hi I just want to find out is a Quarantine Vlan Id required for ISE guest portal for (ISE NAC)? i dont need it as i run my guest users as flexiconnect to an interface on a firewall on a remote site. what is quarantine really used for?
Resolved! Help understanding ISSU workflow
Hello, I am preparing for upgrades without downtime for Catalyst 9800 series Wireless controllers with the ISSU workflow.I am specifically wondering how the process works on access points. If i understand correctly the WLC will upgrade APs in a stagg...
I've got a strange issue we are seeing. We have Meraki MR56s deployed with UNII-1, UNII-2, UNII-2 extended, and UNII-3 channels enabled for 5 Ghz.Most clients are fine but I've got some Lenovo laptops with horrible performance only on APs on UNII-3 ...
Resolved! Meraki WiFi 7 AP's ?
A Meraki's WiFi 6 customer asked me about the future release of WiFi 7 Ap's.Where may I find available information?Thanks
I did some testing on the Wi-Fi signal last week and found that all 4 of the WAPs were putting out a very weak signal even when standing directly under them. Further investigation found that these WAPs are set to broadcast over channel 11, the defaul...
Resolved! Upgrading ME Access Points
Hi all, I'm having issues upgrading 1852e to ME 8.10.I was able to upgrade from 8.3 to 8.5 with no facing issues, but when i try 8.10 upgrade it says that that "AP is already on ME"This issue is also seen on 2802e on a customer mine.In 2802e it also ...
Hello Everyone,I have started my job as an IT admin for a company and on the 1st day i noticed some network issues.where we have a cisco aironet controller and 8 AP's connected, these are the following issues: Error 1) cannot update NA SERV CA Certif...
Hi All, I'm trying integrated WLC with LDAP Azure. Scheme : Azure --- Forti --- WLC The final result is wireless client can Login and Connected with user on Azure. Currently WLC can ping Azure, Also FortiGate can reach Azure But we trying connect o...
Hi all, how do you enable Radius accounting on the Cisco Aironet 1850 Mobility Express via the GUI.Whilst I can see options for setting Radius Authentication (UDP port 1812), how do you set Radius Accounting (UDP port 1813) on the Aironet 1850 Mobil...
We leverage the copy and replace function in Cisco Prime for replacing AP config and map data. This feature does not appear to work with the 9800 WLC. Configuration options within Prime for the 9800 also seem limited, especially if Prime was not used...
Resolved! Cisco 9800 DNA Licencing
I am trying to configure the licencing level to mirror the licences available in out Smart Account but it seems I can only configure air-network-advantage with air-dna-advantage or air-network-essentials with air-dna-essentials. Is this normal behav...
Resulting in limited speed of 288 Mbps, rather than supposedly 866 Mbps on 80 Mhz (.11ac).I have tried disabling DCA, setting custom channel to 80 Mhz, but my devices can only get 20 Mhz. Happens on various firmware from oldest to latest.What's stran...
We have Cisco 9800 WLC running in to the network. we have MAC address based beautification enable based on their respective SSID. we recently upgrade our WLC to 17.3.3 version and after that we notice we have no option to add name against the mac add...
