Cisco C9800L Wireless LAN Controller - Web GUI Management

[Music] [Music] now we are ready to configure our wireless controller from the administration of the web GUI I here's what we'll spend most of our time in the day-to-day operation of our network wireless control while the command line is still fully available a lot of the feature and functionality and the refreshed view from the new catalyst operating system is going to give us a lot of streamlined feature functionality capabilities across this new interface so let's just spend some time getting familiar with what is available kind of what is different and how we go about configuring our solution here for this new style catalyst controller so as we've logged in already with this environment everything we've built up at this point from the wired settings the wireless settings the radio functionality has all really been at that de zero setup both from the command line we've run through and the web GUI de 0 configuration we've run through as well the status that we have right now was actually built off of our command line configuration which we'll explain why that's important in this design as we look at the access points a little more closely here so from the first view we have a nice refreshed modern dashboard when you compare it to the air OS interface that exists as well so we can see we are in fact on the 1900 l series wireless controller on the most current code of 16 12.1 at this recording this interface looks and feels if you've ever logged into a catalyst network switch very much the same design from the navigation menu bars on the left to the very easy graphical interface you can see from the dashboard an admin view in the main center of the page here across the top we do have our quick hit icons here we can you know go back to the home screen we can go here and do some wireless setup which we'll cover in a little bit we'll go through and save the configuration when we're ready for that we can understand how the dashboard is going to be provided to us when we want to go in for the amazing preferences we have available here we can opt in for different language sets if we do with load a different language packs we can run that here as well if you hit the question mark we do open up the configuration monitoring management style for the actual config wizard of this interface so if you have any configuration questions where do I go what to do the actual help guide will pop up in a separate tab or window here and you can go through without having to search cisco or different config books they do a good job of putting that configuration guide right in front of you from the wizard here we can also go through and just refresh the page if something's change do you want to see something new we can search the access points in clients or in fact we can go through and just log out if we're done with it even tells us that we are logged in as the admin user at this point here so from the dashboard we can see all of our wireless networks the physical access points of which we do have one plugged in right now and active no clients no robes no interference going on the radios are in a state of off and we'll explain where that came from from the standpoint we do get to see the overall understanding of the appliance itself you know how is the CPU running what are the core is doing the memory utilization how it's running from time to time the longer gets up the more of a timeline in trajectory you see overall from the Access Controller you can get into different advanced views if you wanted to go into a different view of monitoring both CPU and memory can be loaded here as well if you want a deeper dive into the Hardware of this controller we then will see the access points for our design here what radio count the mode at the running and the join summary and we can see access points that have joined in this case we are one enabled and we could have seen the ones that have not joined maybe there's an air or the controller is looking for these access points that sees them but there's something permitting them from joining this controller we can see their information and some statistics about why they have not joined and we can make some troubleshooting or remediation based on them once we have clients loaded we can see device types of trajectory of clients and trend lines there as well and then we can overall see the system information here as well of how the controller is running at a very quick glance now this dashboard is something you can modify as well the top row is going to be persistent but we can go through and manage this as well so if we say hey my access points is more important than my CPU and memory I will move them down and allow me to configure them or maybe not from this view I will cancel that for now I can even drag them from this interface down here and move it down as well so I can do it from that window over here customize dashboard icon on the right which should allow you to do that and you can swap positions there with the access points that looks a little better we can move things up on top and just to have a little bit of a degree of control as we need to move our information up and around across the board there or again like we showed we can do a drag and drop of our situation here put our access points front and center so I can see access point view then a system view maybe client device types are a little more important and just for symmetry I will throw this up here as well and we can save that and have that setting that are available again just dashboard overview things we can do and manage and monitor and just see what's most important to your environment of what's available from this guideline from there we'll hop to the monitoring will notice that everything is going to be navigation from the left and then a flyout with a fly out here on the right-hand side of that navigation menu we can just monitor our general system information security services and then wireless as well so we can see what we are discovering in this case we do have our switch upstream connected to this controller it will properly label that switch the port it's on and information about it as well any clients running the port statistics the system view but I to move down to AP statistics here we can see where the axis points have joins in this case we have this one that is on board right now in a very default state does not even have a name associated other than its default settings or we can see our join statistics over here we can see that if an Access Point has joined or has not joined this statistics page will show that information here and help us troubleshoot if we click on the access point information about it we can see that it has joined how many requests received or were denied and the unsuccessful attempts and we can see some information about the access point and again helping us understand why it joined which is good in this case that are having to dig into the actual council interface of the access point itself or if something has not joined we can take those steps to go in and see why it was not successful in reaching that access point if we satisfied all this information we can actually clear that off across the board and we want to move that out of our statistic view or we even have the ability to export that view to excel if you want to keep a history or archive of that and then cleared off when we add an onboard more access points but the good thing is here we do have an access point that is joined and we look at the general page by clicking back on it we get really a device 360 view giving us information about the access point right from this monitoring window again we're not making configurations right now we're just viewing what's going on with the access point we can see the radio settings we can see it states as LED on the software version it's running based on the controller how long it's been running would enjoin the access control here the IP address of it we'll know it's run a 21 net offer our access points which is different than our controller network so we know that is properly functioning within our network trunk structure we've not added any other specifications to the access point from a location the name a lot of things we can go in and tweak across the board understanding any statistics quality of service sensors mesh or trust sec across the board we can view on a per axis point basis again nice to have information in a very easy to view clean interface style for everything you have across the board and again we can export those data points to excel as well under the wireless side we can see anything more about the clients the fabric everything we saw from just a setting standpoint we can monitor across the board here again easy to go in and view what's going on with our environment Before we jump into the actual configuration of the radio I'd have to look at the actual controller by itself here we can go in and see how we're doing with best practices by default again this is out of the box I've done nothing really to our environment nothing in the controller setting and again nothing to our just joined access point and we already have a 19 out of 28 score based on our settings by default we have a little bit of things to do when it comes to security anything dealing with our Apple devices and the nice thing is we get to go and see these settings and then how we can go and remedy them across the board for what we need to do to get our best practice score up where we need it to be so we can take that information and then go on and make some changes based on thing the plus button next to any of these components and then it'll tell us what this functionality is actually doing why it's not on and takes us to both a learn more section which does give us another pop out from the system configuration book and will give us some information about why we can use these policies and what this actually does on a much more in-depth scale and then when we're ready to make a change upon that the button will be available whether it's an automatic configuration or a manual configuration to turn on or modify these features to get us into a higher best practice score and we'll take us right to that configuration window if need be this one here is also showing us what the disabling of this functionality we can learn more and even gives us this fix Now button kind of the easy button to automatically go in and fix this without having any manual parameters set to make that into a good status there I'll leave them as defaults for now as we're just kind of viewing over this de zero configuration we do have the ability to get into the command line we've seen this with the catalyst switches the 93 hundreds all those cation K generations to have the command line at the ready from the GUI interface as well so we can type in configurations like show run run that command and now we can see those defaults right there without having to set up another council session or locally connect into that box to get that type of view or configuration mode of our controller which is very handy inter going in those states we can look at the device itself we have gone back through and given it a proper name we've given the management interface and IP address was part of our day zero configuration that's just brought through here we can go through any FTP settings and remote file transfer sorts and redundancy again our day zero configuration from the GUI said we are running this in a state and alone configuration so it's going to be inherited by this design here as well if we do want to run it into a redundant form so I had two of these boxes it walks you through a basic setup of what we want to do for the local IP address of the redundant configuration on both box 1 and box 2 the nice thing is with these smaller controllers they do physically fit two controllers in a single rack unit space there is a specific rack mount shelf unit you can purchase to actually mount both of these appliances for full SSL redundancy in your network rack data center so we'll leave that disabled for now and off we go this device does give us the ability to have local DHCP pools if we're not joining a larger environment something that might be good for a branch office we want to have something localized to that solution we can add our DHCP pools specifically go on and again everything here is very much a clean output configuration pop-out window exists you type in your credentials even gives you more advanced feature functionality as well to go and create your DHCP pools as needed if we want to enable DNS functionality we can do that here we can point to umbrella we can point to local servers again depends on how you want to set up your credentials so I'll do that here because it is something we have in our Center for availability once we type in one address we hit the plus button that'll bring it down into our box down here to show us we do have the ability to run multiple addresses if that is the case of where you want to load your DHS there DNS servers for your solution once you've inputted all of your IP address into your setup both will be loaded down here will apply to device and now we have both of our DNS servers properly labeled in our system for correlation because we've set this device up in a day zero fashion right now we have it at a unlicensed state this solution does take advantage of the smart licensing and smart account approach and the nice thing is it is very much a streamlined process so what it does it walks you through how you're gonna reach out from this controller to the Internet to have it talk to and communicate back to the smart account service from Cisco so this case would be a direct HTTP connection out to the Internet it's going to this website so you wanna make sure that you have all your firewall rules and administration available to reach that site which should be open it's a cisco site where you want to have to go over specifically a source interface or just open availability is it you know a proxy server and again if you have a DNS server you want to specify here you can put that in again all setting up basic transport settings so you know you can reach the Cisco smart licensing portal offer your credentials so again I'll type in our DNS server just we have that available once we've established that we can reach out to that connection it will then walk us through how we actually go in and load our smart licensing tells you step by step process to go in your smart accountmanager load up the specific virtual account that you've tied your licenses in to move that general tab click generate new token generate the token that you're going to apply for the solution and then get ready to paste that token in here to allow that setting to now link this appliance to your smart account and then all the access point licensing you purchased and tied with your access point purchases that are stored in your virtual account will now be applied to your controller and once it's set up it'll say authorized is in an authorized status it is registered and then every access point license that you want to apply into this environment will automatically be available for this controller so as long as you have access points purchased they have licenses that are tied to your system the controller will then go and once linked allow it to be provided with the amount of licenses you purchased - the amount of access points you do have in the smart account structure in a management setting we have all the backups file management logging and SNP credentials that we do need we can reload the appliance as well we can set up our smart call home which is pretty easy just having it enabled and making sure you can reach out to this Cisco service so you can talk to smart licensing and smart call home functionality software management gives us the ability here to load new operating system versions so we have 12 dot X right now if the new version comes out we can load that we have maintenance updates we can load here as well as well as any type of access point upgrades functionality for service profiles anything we need to do can be loaded here across the board as well for your smart rolling credentials of your access point upgrade and management we can set up our NTP services making sure we have the right service name in place and the right region as well I have to go in actually change the location date and time to a different one here let you make it Eastern Time and let that do its thing alright so once we have this set as a proper NTP server our right source we now can make sure that we are properly synced with our access points our controllers and the rest of our network once you do that it does prompt a timeout so you want to let it run its course we'll just log back in here and then the last thing we can look at is the user administration as well we can add multiple users easy to add a new user what role do you want them to have a lobby admin exists here as well read-only no access anything you want to do to allow or disallow users into the environment you can go through and set up that very quickly and easily from the admin portal here user administration setups we also have the troubleshooting functionality to create logs debugs packet captures a lot of great information we can pull out of the controller and use to test it against the network is it running packet captures a lot of great details we can use again at your fingertips very easily to run and navigate these settings across the board from this much more modern interface last thing I'll show off here is the configuration window gone is the days of the arrow S configuration that had the default dashboard and then the advanced screen that led into many navigation paths within windows and tabs and dialogues you can run into and you have to be very savvy to run that controller configuration and you still to be savvy here as well to know why you're configuring certain elements of the controller but this puts everything at your fingertips from one configuration screen you won't be jumping back and forth from a navigation bar at the top and then a navigation bar on the left and trying to make sure you're in the right screen in the right area in the right section here everything is going to be very much familiar from the traditional arrow West days of things we can do from the interfaces the radio configurations the security settings all your wireless functionality your build up of your network knits all there how you go and do it is now just in this more modern view modern flow and it's easy to see where things are how they're applied and what they can do with this new controller we'll take a look at those settings in a future video thank you

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Length: 22min 20sec (1340 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 06 2020