CLI to see RSSI of associated clients on Autonomous AP?

Muhammed Adnan · ‎07-22-2019

Hello Experts,

What is the "show cli" on autonomous AP that could be used to see the RSSI with which a Wireless client/ WGB is associated?

Rasika Nayanajith · ‎07-22-2019

"show dot11 association <mac_addr> " output should provide that info.

HTH

Rasika

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Muhammed Adnan · ‎07-29-2019

Thank you Rasika for your response. It helped.
""show dot11 association <mac_addr> " was not accepted as a valid cli on the IOS I was running on my AP, however "show dot11 associations all" helped obtained the RSSI of the associated clients.

IW3700-1#show dot11 associations all

Address : 002c.c8b6.1c78 Name : IW3700-2

IP Address : 10.0.0.2 IPv6 Address : ::

Gateway Address : 0.0.0.0

Netmask Address : 0.0.0.0 Interface : Dot11Radio 1

Bridge-group : 0

reap_flags_1 : 0x0 ip_learn_type : 0x0 transient_static_ip : 0x0

Device : WGB Software Version : 15.3

CCX Version : 5 Client MFP : Off

State : Assoc Parent : self

SSID : CiscoSurvey

VLAN : 0

Hops to Infra : 1 Association Id : 1

Clients Associated: 1 Repeaters associated: 0

Tunnel Address : 0.0.0.0

Key Mgmt type : NONE Encryption : Off

Current Rate : a4.1t2 Capability : WMM ShortHdr 11h

Supported Rates : 9.0 12.0 18.0 24.0 36.0 48.0 54.0 m0-2 m1-2 m2-2 m3-2 m4-2 m5-2 m6-2 m7-2 m8-2 m9-2 m10-2 m11-2 m12-2 m13-2 m14-2 m15-2 m16-2 m17-2 m18-2 m19-2 m20-2 m21-2 m22-2 m23-2 a0.1-2 a1.1-2 a2.1-2 a3.1-2 a4.1-2 a5.1-2 a6.1-2 a7.1-2 a8.1-2 a9.1-4 a0.2-2 a1.2-2 a2.2-2 a3.2-2 a4.2-2 a5.2-2 a6.2-2 a7.2-2 a8.2-2 a0.3-2 a1.3-2 a2.3-2 a3.3-2 a4.3-2 a5.3-2 a6.3-2 a7.3-2 a8.3-2 a9.3-2

Voice Rates : disabled Bandwidth : 20 MHz

Signal Strength : -70 dBm Connected for : 105 seconds

Signal to Noise : 25 dB Activity Timeout : 30 seconds

Power-save : Off Last Activity : 0 seconds ago

Apsd DE AC(s) : NONE

Packets Input : 238 Packets Output : 212

Bytes Input : 27617 Bytes Output : 43429

Duplicates Rcvd : 6 Data Retries : 303

Decrypt Failed : 0 RTS Retries : 0

MIC Failed : 0 MIC Missing : 0

Packets Redirected: 0 Redirect Filtered: 0

IP source guard failed : 0 PPPoE passthrough failed : 0

DAI failed : IP mismatch : 0 src MAC mismatch : 0 target MAC mismatch : 0

Existing IP failed : 0 New IP failed : 0

11w Status : Off

Address : e86a.6479.628c Name : NONE

IP Address : 10.0.0.3 IPv6 Address : ::

Gateway Address : 0.0.0.0

Netmask Address : 0.0.0.0 Interface : Dot11Radio 1

Bridge-group : 0

reap_flags_1 : 0x0 ip_learn_type : 0x0 transient_static_ip : 0x0

Device : WGB-client Software Version : NONE

CCX Version : NONE Client MFP : Off

State : Assoc Parent : 002c.c8b6.1c78

SSID : CiscoSurvey

VLAN : 0

Hops to Infra : 0

Clients Associated: 0 Repeaters associated: 0

11w Status : Off

IW3700-1#

Rasika Nayanajith · ‎07-29-2019

"show dot11 association <mac_addr> " was not accepted as a valid cli on the IOS I was running on my AP.

I expected you to replace <mac_addr> section of that command with your client MAC address :)

So command to be issued like "show dot11 association 002c.c8b6.1c78"

HTH

Rasika

Muhammed Adnan · ‎07-29-2019

//I expected you to replace <mac_addr> section of that command with your client MAC address :)//

That's fairly understood Rasika :). I meant the actual client mac address only :)

Marcofbbr · ‎01-15-2021

Is the RSSI visible with that command output measured on the AP or measured on the client?
I expect it to be measured on the AP and I wonder whether there is a way to check the client measured RSSI from the AP.

patoberli · ‎01-18-2021

That you need to look at the client. I don't think it is reported back to the AP. Typically though (with end user clients) the AP hears the client better than the client hears the AP.

Also bear in mind, the real value (signal strength) is permanently adjusted by both sides depending on the quality in the newer standards. What you see measured are typically the beacons.