Cisco C9800L Wireless LAN Controller - Basic Wireless Setup

[Music] [Music] in this video we're going to take a look at the basic wireless management setup for our new Cisco 1900 series wireless controller at this point we have the controller up and running with one access point enable all radio is enabled on the access points but nothing is established to set up our clients or the overall wireless lans for our solution it's just going to be an open operating mode really both set of the controller and the access point in their native de 0 configuration so in this design we've looked at the interface view we can look at all of our feature functionality and configure a lot of this manually with all the capabilities we do want out of a cisco wireless solution but if we scroll down to the very bottom of this configuration flyout menu we are met with some wireless setup options we have a basic set up and an advanced set up I'm gonna click on the basic set up and we'll look at both but we're gonna focus on our basic configuration here first off in the basic set up we are met with a pretty open screen that says well let's just get going and add this environment and it'll walk us through kind of a guided step of piece by piece of adding our networks wireless LANs and locations to assign our access points to this controller so they can start actually doing and providing data and connectivity for our wireless clients if we look at the advanced setup we now have a little bit more information about what we're gonna be involved with here because there's more things we actually get involved with doing we will setup different profiles policies and tags when it comes to our wireless LAN site information of how the access points join our solution and then radio policies that we want to permit they maybe go beyond just the default settings that are out there for low typical or high client densities once we satisfy some or all of the mandatory or optional settings that'll walk us through all the phases of this controller will then apply them to the access points that are part of our design in this case we just have one access point we can tag our stuff to and we'll walk through this when we look at the defaults and setup for the advanced setting but for this design we're gonna look at the basic setting that we're gonna be focusing on here so if we also look at the settings we can also go from the dashboard there is a set up here with this little you know radio setting and wireless setup widget wheel we can click that icon from anywhere in this dashboard or in this configuration set up and click on basic or advanced for our purposes again we're looking at the basic setting I will click on that and now we're brought back here as well so just want to point out the two ways to navigate to our wireless setup settings we can go from the always persistent navigation menu up here hovering over the wireless setup basic or advanced or a configuration flyout window very bottom basic or advanced let's get rolling on that basic set up here I'm gonna click the Add button and now we're met with the settings that we're going to be responsible for getting this network up and running so in this case what is the location that I'm running this into well it's going to be our business transformation center we'll call it B TC for short the description will be our B TC location the location type because the controller is in my facility will be a local configuration and the client density I'm actually going to move to a low density because it is our test environment kind of in our non corporate mode so I'm not going to have really many more any clients on here on a regular basis so I'm gonna move that to our low setting and it will automatically apply the RF and radio credentials that are built into the controller by default with that low parameter setting again taking a lot of that manual lifting and putting in a cisco breath practice that's what we do on the general page pretty much build our location out that we're gonna run this wireless setup with them now within this location what wireless networks do we want to have in this case I'm gonna go through and say well I have nothing pre-established because we're at add a zero configuration I'm going to define a new one once I go and define a new one I actually have to go through another pop out window they'll tell me how to add the wireless naming conventions to our solution I'm gonna say the profile for this one will be catalyst highlighting the catalyst operating system for our deployment automatically our profile will now be our SSID name which I will allow for the solution is our first network so us me ID number one by default the status is disabled but the broadcast is enabled I will disable that just for security sake until we get everything up and ready I can hire to code this to be two point four or five specific or in our radio case we'll say all clients are able to join of any radio structure I'm then met with my security settings I can go through here and be a specific or tight with my security setup as I need to be in this case we're going to keep it very generic to our WPA and wpa2 settings what we can actually do wpa2 and WPA three or if we really wanted to WEP still exists we'll keep it at wpa2 for now we can always change this as our environment dictates WPA three requirements protected management frame and wpa2 has a option disabled or required we can set that up or disable it it's not a mandatory feature like you might see if you go to WPA three settings protected management frame does become a little bit more of a requirement or tagged feature something you want to take advantage of when you move to that realm it is something that you do want to look at and is something that is more demise abode and functional within that support but in looking at wpa2 structured environments we will keep it at the default disabled structure for now our policy will keep it wpa2 we're gonna go with a pre-shared key because we're keeping this very local in our test environment we're not going to be running any type of authoritative 802 dot 1x or triple-a functionality and we're to keep our our credentials Cisco three to one make sure that is the way we want it and we'll keep it open and friendly we can always create to anything we want from a layer 3 setting we can do full policy creation there enable our Triple A functionality if we're gonna move into that realm as well as any of our advanced functionality we define for our wireless settings will exist here for Mac's connections per wireless LAN and a lot of different feature functionality we can do to really dial in this network as we have familiarized ourselves with the arrow S config those features and functions are present here in the catalyst config as well once I satisfy these credentials I will apply now it will automatically have soaked in my catalyst configuration we now can apply that to different VLANs or VLAN groups if we have established them right now I just have the VLAN group 100 that I have established from my wireless controller that means that I have no other VLAN tag that I could apply to this specific environment if I need to go and do that so for our deployment I would want to create a separate VLAN solution set for this environment so I'm actually going to bounce out of this for now because that is something that I do want to set up for this solution so how we do that is going back to our configuration and then we have a layer 2 configuration setting for VLANs or V TP in this case our environment is not part of a VTP domain and in fact we don't really have any other VLANs set up at this point it's on I go add a VLAN I'll make a VLAN and let it activate it for our environment we'll apply that to our device so now we have added a VLAN for this device to be part of our overall network ideally you would want to have it tied to a VT P if that is something you have running in your environment because that just makes a connecting all your VLANs much more easy but for now we're keeping it at a very basic you know self-administered site type deployment of having this VLAN 10 be available for this location because nothing was saved in my original design I have to go back and run that through one more time so I'll call this my BTC BTC location and our wireless networks now because we did build the wireless LAN in our prior configuration that does exist here still so the settings we did apply the first time do still exist in the overall structure of the controller but because the basic location set up do is not completed to the fullest we never hit apply our initial work to build our location just didn't exist so now I'll go back in and build out my VLANs and VLAN 10 does now exist to connect to the rest of my environment if I have any ACLs built or quality of service settings I want to apply we can do that here in this case we'll make it a silver-level if we have any ACLs you want to apply here we can do that specifically or define a new one again giving us a lot of great credentials just from these setup flyout windows for our settings we'll keep everything as default on here because we're in a local controller mode we'll add that and now we've applied this Wireless name with catalyst across the board here and because all of our wireless LAN settings and security parameters were already built prior our policy is now ready to roll for the specific location when the last step we have to do in this basic configuration will be just applying our found access point which we've seen from the dashboard in our configuration we can click on that access point or if we had several that we have the controller discovered but not applied to a specific network we can select many or several in this case we just have one so we'll select the one that we have and the little arrow will pop up to say yes this is the access point that I want to have joined from my wireless controller now applied to this specific location and inherit all those settings for the wireless LAN security location for this deployment I will now hit apply and that can be part of our solution if I didn't want to do it from an access point list or I couldn't find it I can specifically type the MAC address here I can do the AP import if I had a whole file that was saved offline we can import that here again avoids just a manual click of of access points you want to deploy we can actually have a file created for here our MAC addresses or we can just click the few we might have in our environment we will click apply and now we have a saved setting and a basic setup that this location for what it is and the access points tied to it now we can go into it see the provisioning and see the access points and we can delete it if we're unsatisfied with what we want we can apply it again if we want to make any setting changes or we let it go for where it is and now we'll go back into our configuration and we go into our tags and profiles we look at our wireless lans and now we can see the access points that we had here catalyst was disabled I will now enable it we can see the status goes from red to green it is up and all the settings we had prior applied here in the initial flyout window can be modified here under the same structure just now found from configuration wireless lans even though we can build that manually in this fashion we had it kind of automatically flowed from the basic configuration there now if we look at our monitoring we can look at our ap functionality to make sure we can look at any clients that might have joined with their new network radios in this case we've not had anybody join yet but it's nice to see if you go back to our dashboard we do have our wireless network administered it is up and running with one access point and now it keeps discovering more and more access points and clients that are robes in our environment as we look to continue the next phase of our wireless configuration you

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Length: 14min 0sec (840 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 06 2020