Not possible to create a WLAN on the WLC through the prime ?

[aleopoldie]

Hello,

I wanted to create a WLAN on the prime but on the feature selection, there is nothing for creating, only modifying or deleting... (See picture in attached files)

Is it a normal behaviour from Cisco ?

Thank you.

[pieterh]

you are probably in the wrong branch of the tree

[aleopoldie]

Yes this is working with this method but we are talking about templates that you deploy on a WLC.

From the CONFIGURATION menu, we should be able to directly create a WLAN on the WLC. We are able to create ACL's, interfaces and so on, but not WLANs...

[pieterh · Accepted solution]

No that is not correct you can NOT create wlans from this point.
afaik this was not different with its predecessors WCS/NCS etc.

Prime leans heavily on management using templates
So many settings have been moved to templates and can not be configured without.
So first create a template, then deploy this template to one or more controllers.

alternative is not to select the controller but to open the web-interface of the controller itself
-> from the list in Prime (the wireless controller list, not just network devices) select the icon next to the ip-address, then login and create a new WLAN.

but then Prime does not know about this wlan untill you sync the configuration
You will also notice that some options in the controller web-interface have moved to a different location when using the templates.

[aleopoldie]

Alright I will do it with templates then.

Thank you,

AL

[Ryo Kato]

Make sure your Controller is in Prime and synced: go to the list of network devices, select the controller and run "sync".

* Configuration -> Feature Technology -> Controller -> System -> Dynamic Interface, create an interface for the wlan

* Configuration -> Feature Technology -> Controller -> WLANs -> WLAN Configuration, create the wlan

Save the both templates in own directory and deploy. Check if the deploy was successfull in job overview.

Save config on controller.