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Cisco AP monitoring

jdmarshburn1

How do I setup monitoring for our wireless network?

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ctlswadmin

Enable SNMP on your controllers, confirm communication between your controllers and your SW pollers, and then add to SW.

deverts

Autonomous APs or LWAPP? LWAPP, you monitor the controller, SW handles the rest. Autonomous is 1 at a time with static IPs...

jdmarshburn1

I am having a hard time getting the cisco 5508 added to orion.

rscreed92

What problems are you having? I had at one point 17 5508s being monitored in Orion. Make sure to include your IP address of SW poller in WLC or use all (0s) for testing. (less desirable)

jdmarshburn1

When I try to add it I put the community string in and it fails on test

swmace

I'm monitoring a 5508 controller and around 125 LWAPPs. Really should just be the community string and IP address of the controller. I'm assuming there are no firewalls between the controller and Orion in your environment or that you're allowing SNMP traffic if there is. Check the obvious stuff, make sure the community string is enabled on the controller. Check ACLs and firewalls to make sure you're not blocking anything in that way. And once the controller is in all your APs will be monitored (and don't count against your NPM nodes).

deverts

Ok, let's keep this simple. On the controller, go to: Management - SNMP - Communities. Upper right corner, select "New"

Community Name = "whatever read-only string you use"

IP Address = a couple options - IP of the NPM server, if you only have 1 NPM server / if you have additional pollers, select the appropriate IP of the assigned poller / if you have a "management network," use the network address (.0 or whatever)

IP Mask = depending on IP address, this is 255.255.255.255 (single server), or subnet mask of management network

Access Mode = Read Only

Status = Enable

Add the controller to NPM, and test the SNMP access. If this fails and there is nothing in the WLC log indicating a problem, you have something on the network preventing access (ACL, firewall, bad routing). If the test passes, it should discovery it's a WLC and pull all the AP info.

rscreed92

What exactly is the problem you are experiencing? You can use the SNMP Walk application in the Solarwinds directory to test connectivity.