Placing AP's in Monitor Mode

[wrainwater]

Sorry guys, I know I'm always asking questions on here.

Im restructuring my wireless environment. I have 1852 AP's mixed in with 3502i AP's. I was told my a TAC engineer that monitor mode helps the WLC make better decisions regarding the rf environment. So is it worth it to purchase a few spare AP's and sprinkle them in while specifically being on monitor mode?

[Flavio Miranda · Accepted solution]

Hi

 Really good idea. It is recommended to have around 1 monitor  to every 5 AP on the environment. The beauty of monitor AP is that they monitor all the channels equally. You can use for example, local AP with monitor mode as submode, however, they will stay most of its time on one channel only.

 You can also install Spectrum Expert on your machine and use the AP to verify spectrum healthy. 

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[wrainwater]

So you are saying I dont need to use a whole AP for monitor mode? which is better? and is there some article that tells me how to set up monitor mode and send the traffic to my machine?

[Flavio Miranda]

In monitor mode is way better. Local mode is a 'quick fix'. 

 On this link there are a lot of information:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless/technology/wips/deployment/guide/WiPS_deployment_guide.html

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