We also did some of this with student help over the years in PI... but the results were mixed. I'd say make sure the students thoroughly understand why what they are doing is important, trained well on your process, and get checked on occasionally for accuracy.
Also- for what these products cost, and the fact that Cisco is now "a software company", I'm taken aback that they haven't given customers a better migration strategy. Check this up to higher TCO and hidden costs of ownership, says I. Lee Badman | Network Architect (CWNE#200) Information Technology Services (NDD Group) 206 Machinery Hall 120 Smith Drive Syracuse, New York 13244 t 315.443.3003 e lhbad...@syr.edu<mailto:lhbad...@syr.edu> w its.syr.edu Campus Wireless Policy: https://answers.syr.edu/display/network/Wireless+Network+and+Systems SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY syr.edu From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> On Behalf Of Smith, Nayef Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2021 10:06 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] [External] [WIRELESS-LAN] Placement mapping of APs To the point of "hours of remapping everything", we were very successful leveraging intern/work study for this type of work several years ago. When we have to do this again, i'll be running the same playbook. 4-6 student workers knocked it out over the summer. You can do something similar over the school year, but it will likely take a little longer. They enjoyed the work including the opportunity to visit locations and do site surveys as needed. Nayef Z. Smith | Network Services | Voice: 404-727-6019 [cid:image001.png@01D768E1.DE2B9F10] ________________________________ From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>> on behalf of Christina Klam <ck...@ias.edu<mailto:ck...@ias.edu>> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2021 2:52 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>> Subject: [External] [WIRELESS-LAN] Placement mapping of APs All, For the upteenth time, we will need to re-map all of our access points in a Cisco GUI. Originally they were in Prime. Then we got DNAC and were told to migrate them there. But, just found out that you cannot export the mappings (blank maps yes, mappings no) from DNACv1 to DNACv2. And as the sync is only one way, Prime to DNAC, we cannot seamlessly return to Prime. Until Cisco gets their act together, we will do the re-mapping in Prime and have that be our source of truth. My question to the community is this. How do you handle the AP placement mappings? If there is a better way that manually dragging the images to the proper location, I would love to hear it. I see that you can use GPS coordinates but how can you get accurate coordinates inside a building? Ideally, I would like to create a spreadsheet of AP and locations and then upload it to said system. This way if Prime database gets corrupted (which has happened) or DNACv2-v3 also is not seamless, we do not have to spend the hours remapping everything ... again. 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