Cant seem to get AP's to recognize 4402 WLC

[rlaudicina]

Hello,

I have 2 4402 WLC's and am in the process of deploying 1042 APs out to sites. But The AP's wont recognize the WLC. I have configured the DNS for CAPWAP but still no dice. I have had to serial into each unit and give it a static IP and then I can see it on the WLC. Shoulsnt this be automatic? what am I missing?

[Scott Fella]

You had to console in and give the AP a static? If so, then that means the AP isn't getting an ip address on the subnet it is connected to. If you console into the AP while it is being powered up, you can see if the AP gets and ip or not an where the join process fails.

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[rlaudicina]

The firmware on the WLC is the latest 7.x. Yes I am not getting an IP address. I am not using the DHCP 43 option but I do have an entry in the DNS for capwap controllers.

[Leo Laohoo]

1.What is the firmware of your WLC?

2. Console into the WAP and post the entire bootup process.

[rlaudicina]

It now seems to be seeing the DHCP server but still not seeing the WLC. It just keeps cycling through discover, I get the following 3 errors:

Did not get log server settings from DHCP

Could not resolve cisco-capwap-controller.domain.net

could not discover WLC uing DHCP renewing DHCP

[Surendra BG]

are the APs getting the IP address from the DHCP?? if so can u try pinging the WLC management ip address from the AP??

Regards

Surendra

[rlaudicina]

OK I think I got the AP working, it is up with an IP but WCS still dosent see it. Still working this out.

[rlaudicina]

The problem was that The DNS zone needed to be reloaded as it wasn;t resollving the controller IP's So now the DHCP is working properly and the only issue left is that WCS still does not recognize the AP until I manually console into the AP and assign it a primary controller name. Shoul;dn't this be automated?

[Scott Fella]

You mean the AP isn't joining the WLC. Well since your DNA is working and you can resolve Cisco-capwap-controller.localdomain to

The WLC management ip, I would console into the AP and capture the output and post that info here. Capture the output when you power up the AP. You can see how he AP tries to join.

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[rlaudicina]

Yes the console says its actually joining the WLC, but WCS dosent show it. Restarting wcs now

[Scott Fella]

Wait... you mean the WLC not WCS?

[rlaudicina]

No it says its joining the controller but WCS does not see it. I copied the boot up to a file but cant paste or attach on this site

[rlaudicina]

OK here we go Cisco IOS Software, C1040 Software (C1140-K9W8-M), Version 12.4(23c)JA2, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc3) Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport Copyright (c) 1986-2011 by Cisco Systems, Inc. Compiled Wed 13-Apr-11 12:50 by prod_rel_team *Mar  1 00:00:14.782: %SNMP-5-COLDSTART: SNMP agent on host ap is undergoing a cold start *Mar  1 00:13:53.062: %CAPWAP-5-CHANGED: CAPWAP changed state to DISCOVERY *Mar  1 00:13:53.087: %LINK-5-CHANGED: Interface Dot11Radio1, changed state to reset *Mar  1 00:13:53.087: %LINK-5-CHANGED: Interface Dot11Radio0, changed state to reset *Mar  1 00:13:54.087: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface Dot11Radio1, changed state to down *Mar  1 00:13:54.087: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface Dot11Radio0, changed state to down *Mar  1 00:13:54.287: %SSH-5-ENABLED: SSH 2.0 has been enabled *Mar  1 00:14:01.211: %DHCP-6-ADDRESS_ASSIGN: Interface GigabitEthernet0 assigned DHCP address 10.30.30.122, mask 255.255.255.0, hostname APccef.484c.d694 *Mar  1 00:14:11.946:  status of voice_diag_test from WLC is false *Mar  1 00:14:12.012: Logging LWAPP message to 255.255.255.255. Translating "CISCO-CAPWAP-CONTROLLER.championhomes.net"...domain server (10.30.101.51) [OK] *Nov 22 12:41:02.000: %CAPWAP-5-DTLSREQSEND: DTLS connection request sent peer_ip: 10.192.60.47 peer_port: 5246 *Nov 22 12:41:02.001: %CAPWAP-5-CHANGED: CAPWAP changed state to *Nov 22 12:41:03.170: %CAPWAP-5-DTLSREQSUCC: DTLS connection created sucessfully peer_ip: 10.192.60.47 peer_port: 5246 *Nov 22 12:41:03.171: %CAPWAP-5-SENDJOIN: sending Join Request to 10.192.60.47 *Nov 22 12:41:03.171: %CAPWAP-5-CHANGED: CAPWAP changed state to JOIN *Nov 22 12:41:03.331: %CAPWAP-5-CHANGED: CAPWAP changed state to CFG wmmAC status is FALSE *Nov 22 12:41:05.417: %CAPWAP-5-CHANGED: CAPWAP changed state to UP *Nov 22 12:41:05.461: %CAPWAP-5-JOINEDCONTROLLER: AP has joined controller WLANHQ02 *Nov 22 12:41:05.506: %LWAPP-3-CLIENTEVENTLOG: SSID CHB-Guest added to the slot[0] *Nov 22 12:41:05.509: %LWAPP-3-CLIENTEVENTLOG: SSID CEI-CORPHQ added to the slot[0] *Nov 22 12:41:05.512: %LWAPP-3-CLIENTEVENTLOG: SSID CEI-WEST added to the slot[0] *Nov 22 12:41:05.514: %LWAPP-3-CLIENTEVENTLOG: SSID CEI-SOUTH added to the slot[0] *Nov 22 12:41:05.517: %LWAPP-3-CLIENTEVENTLOG: SSID CHB added to the slot[0] *Nov 22 12:41:05.518: %LWAPP-3-CLIENTEVENTLOG: SSID CHB-Guest added to the slot[1] *Nov 22 12:41:05.520: %LWAPP-3-CLIENTEVENTLOG: SSID CEI-CORPHQ added to the slot[1] *Nov 22 12:41:22.800: %CDP_PD-4-POWER_OK: Full power - NON_CISCO-NO_CDP_RECEIVED inline power source *Nov 22 12:41:22.806: %DOT11-4-NO_HT: Interface Dot11Radio1, Mcs rates disabled on vlan 4 due to WMM is not enabled *Nov 22 12:41:22.806: %DOT11-4-NO_HT: Interface Dot11Radio1, Mcs rates disabled on vlan 5 due to WMM is not enabled *Nov 22 12:41:22.826: %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface Dot11Radio1, changed state to up *Nov 22 12:41:22.835: %DOT11-4-NO_HT: Interface Dot11Radio0, Mcs rates disabled on vlan 4 due to WMM is not enabled *Nov 22 12:41:22.835: %DOT11-4-NO_HT: Interface Dot11Radio0, Mcs rates disabled on vlan 5 due to WMM is not enabled *Nov 22 12:41:22.855: %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface Dot11Radio0, changed state to up *Nov 22 12:41:23.814: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface Dot11Radio1, changed state to up *Nov 22 12:41:23.842: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface Dot11Radio0, changed state to up

[rlaudicina]

No I cant see the Ap in the "Configure Access Points" section of WCS so that I can configure from there

[Scott Fella]

Are you trying to add the AP onto the floor plan and you don't see the AP name when you choose add?