I agree on its importance. We have 4 of the WiSM controllers (which are just 440x controllers on a blade), and they run our entire enterprise wireless LAN.

On 4/10/07, Peder Magne Sefland peder.sefland@hivolda.no wrote:

Hi,

I think I used bulk-import to get the box into nav. I am not sure what Category I should place it in. For now I have placed it under GW, but thats not correct. I only get 53 snmp oid out of the box. But it is importen to get support for this box. Many of the University Colleges use this box, and as I see it maybe machine-tracking is the most importen thing. The Cisco Wireless Lan Controller 440x has itself a well developed system for machine-tracking, but it would be nice to have all the machine-tracking in one place/system.

Peder

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Den 2. april 2007 kl. 15:52 skrev "Hauge Odd Arne" <

odd.hauge@himolde.no>:

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Hi.

Has NAV any support for Cisco Wireless Lan Controller 440x ? Trying to

add

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my own device using editDb gives following output:

Mod_python error: "PythonHandler editdb"

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/mod_python/apache.py", line

299, in

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HandlerDispatch result = object(req)

File "/var/www/nav/editdb/editdb.py", line 158, in handler output = editPage(req,pageList[table](),request,unicodeError)

File "/var/www/nav/editdb/editdb.py", line 465, in editPage outputForm,action)

File "/var/www/nav/editdb/editdb.py", line 2327, in add box = initBox.Box(ip,form['ro'])

File "/var/www/nav/editdb/initBox.py", line 49, in __init__ self.typeid = self.getType(identifier,ro)

File "/var/www/nav/editdb/initBox.py", line 99, in getType sysobjectid = snmp.get(oid)

File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/nav/Snmp.py", line 146, in get raise "Snmp error %s at %s (%s, %s)" % \

Snmp error 2 at 1 (.1.3.6.1.2.1.1.2.0, NULL: )

Regards Odd Arne Hauge

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From morten.brekkevold at uninett.no Fri Apr 13 12:08:56 2007

From: morten.brekkevold at uninett.no (Morten Brekkevold) Date: Fri Apr 13 11:09:02 2007 Subject: [Nav-users] Cisco Wireless Lan Controller and NAV In-Reply-To: 8EEE7738AEDF6947B3E5508A0244D1C2631EDE@stam.himolde.no References: 4ddd24660703121031h716cb122q8cee4ba790fc632@mail.gmail.com 45F93D04.4080707@uninett.no 8EEE7738AEDF6947B3E5508A0244D1C2631EDE@stam.himolde.no Message-ID: 461F48A8.3040705@uninett.no

Hauge Odd Arne wrote, On 02-04-2007 15:52:

Hi.

Has NAV any support for Cisco Wireless Lan Controller 440x ? Trying to add my own device using editDb gives following output:

[...]

Snmp error 2 at 1 (.1.3.6.1.2.1.1.2.0, NULL: )

This is NAV's somewhat cryptic way of telling you that the remote SNMP agent doesn't know the OID. (The code was recently changed to give a more friendly error message in this case, and it will be in place for NAV 3.3).

The OID in this case is sysObjectID.0; if your Cisco Wireless Lan Controller 440x reports a noSuchName error for this OID, then I'd say something is seriously wrong with your controller.

NTNU reports that they have added a Cisco WLAN controller to their NAV with no problems, so I'm not sure what causes your problem.

As to your question of "any support for" the Cisco WLAN Controller 440x, the answer is yes. I.e., it is an IP device, and can be status monitored by NAV. The box should support SNMP (although something about that seems broken in your case), so you will be able to retrieve some basic SNMP data from it. But that is all.

When it comes to actually retrieving info about the slaves controlled by the box, NAV has no idea. We are working on better support for autonomous Cisco WLAN AP's this year, in fact Andreas Knudsen from the University College of ?stfold is coming up here next week to work on this support. Unfortunately, we have no current plans of supporting the special case of a Cisco WLAN Controller, as we currently haven't enough resources to work on it. We are aware, though, that they are growing more popular and should be supported, but we have no idea yet how they can best be supported by NAV, and not sure how the controller/slave concept maps into NAV's existing data model. Whoever is going to work out some support for this box, must have access to one and the proper Cisco documentation for it.