On 3 Mar 2014 13:31, "Morten Brekkevold" morten.brekkevold@uninett.no wrote:
None of our customers monitor their WLC slave APs through NAV, just the wireless LAN controllers themselves. They prefer Cisco's own WLC-related software to monitor the slaves. Oftentimes, the slaves won't even have their own IP addresses.
We do. But ICMP ping only. The Images on the APs have SNMP, but it's not configurable. I think they just couldn't remove it. The only useful thing you get is reachability stats. It's only useful if your distribution network is unstable (I.e. radio link/mesh usage on open bands)
As Morten said, it has very few use cases for adding the APs directly, and you know it if you need it.
Both lwapp and and capwap use ipv4 transport (not in the OSI-sense), so those APs always have an IP address. I am not sure about other vendors (Aruba/Meru) thou.
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