Kitri,
If you are allowing RRM to do TPC you may want to evaluate your layout. TPC is
setting the PL to 7 because the APs can all see each other. If you turn up the
PL you may see your utilization for 802.11 climb as well.
Just something to consider, you can also set the Minimum Power Level Assignment
to something higher, like 10dBm. Just be sure to keep an eye on utilization at
the AP.
Totally off subject, but tossing it out there
Thanks
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[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Kitri Waterman
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 10:31 AM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Radio specific client count report in Cisco
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Cisco has a WLC config checker here.
https://supportforums.cisco.com/document/7711/wlc-config-analyzerhttps://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=https://supportforums.cisco.com/document/7711/wlc-config-analyzerk=yYSsEqip9%2FcIjLHUhVwIqA%3D%3D%0Ar=eHsexY0U6WY24UhDK4eLQbvXOPzMySRoCq87DX3WV5M%3D%0Am=7hn5no7F102IkSNWt3ijBEG3n%2FCpCjqGktnbSFp2zmk%3D%0As=09e683c661b6ee7aad3d167fe4221b56fa2497762821339d5f752aa1aa006f2c
Running our config through it revealed that we have a large amount of 2.4
radios at power level 7...which translates to 2 dBM...meaning your radios could
just be WAY powered down.
Make sure you have no output to the WLC console and then run config paging
disable and then show run-config. Dump all that output into the analyzer.
Kitri
On 3/24/14 7:35 AM, Jim Glassford wrote:
Hi,
I can not answer your question, I have looked for this also but also I really
do not trust WCS/NCS/Prime N to give an accurate output.
Still using some perl scripts from FAT AP days and modified these to
double-check the capwap units are taking clients.
Check for clients on APs and what radios they are working on, if no counts when
feel there should be, then take a closer look what is going on.
If you have anything left over from managing individual APS and wanted to
reuse, the hard part for me was understanding hitting the WLC then appending
the MAC address of the AP to query the MIB and all has to be in decimal. Can
then pull a client MAC address list from each AP, change to decimal and query
again to get the radio information for each client and other information if
wanted.
Electrical brown outs and other issues has caused APs to look fine but not take
clients for us on array of AP models and OS versions over the years.
best!
jim
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Peter Arbouin
p.arbo...@qut.edu.aumailto:p.arbo...@qut.edu.au wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone has been able to run a report that identifies unused
radios of using Cisco Prime 1.4.
We recently found a room with two access points where a client couldn't
connect. It turned out that even though the 2.4 radio reported as being on and
functioning, no clients could connect. One stopped working a few weeks ago, and
the other three days ago. The 5GHz radios were working fine and had clients
associated to both access points.
I ran the Client Count report for the affected floor from the Client Reports
section and this was ok for a small area, as it reports all the access points
in a graph format, and allowed me to select by radio type.
It got me wondering how many other radios may have a similar problem.
If I run this report for all our access points, there is no sort function, so
you have to manually look through all the graphs.
In the Device section, there is a Top AP by Client Count This is a handy
report, as it gives a numeric output and can be sorted, but it seems to be
total clients for the AP and there is no option to report on just specific
radio type, so I can only assume that this report only reports access points
with no associations on any radio.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Peter.
Peter Arbouin | Network Engineer
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Queensland University of Technology
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