Cisco Mobility Express & Prime Infrastructure TIP

Hello.


today, I would like to share the Cisco Mobility Express AP and Prime Infrastructure TIP.

for several year, PI was upgraded in many parts.
especially, stability and user interface were very very improved.

and recently, Mobilty Express AP was released.
this AP is different from previous autonomous AP at user interface and operating system.
now small AP can do Wireless Controller role! even its ability is limited but good enough in small business.
anyway, because this AP target to small business, some features does not supported in GUI interface.
so, you should configure some advanced features in CLI interface.

+add    : Cisco Mobility Express has two role in one hardware. one is controller and the other is access point. before getting start, you should connect this Access Point to Switch that could reachable to Gateway.



[Cisco Mobility Express Configuration Example]

Port speed/duplex manual setup
(Cisco Controller) >config
(Cisco Controller) config>port autoneg all disable
(Cisco Controller) config>ap ethernet duplex full speed 100 all

Hide specific SSID
(Cisco Controller) >config
(Cisco Controller) config>wlan disable 1
(Cisco Controller) config>wlan broadcast-ssid disable 1
(Cisco Controller) config>wlan enable 1


[Cisco Prime Infrastructure Configuration Example]

Configuration mode
prime/admin# configure terminal

NTP Server setup
prime/admin(config)# ntp server 192.168.1.111

NTP Server check
prime/admin# show ntp
NTP Server 1 : 192.168.1.111
synchronised to NTP server (192.168.1.111) at stratum 4
   time correct to within 217 ms
   polling server every 1024 s

New DNS Server setup
prime/admin(config)# ip domain-name DOMAIN.COM

Old DNS Server remove
prime/admin(config)# no ip domain-name DOMAIN.COM

Change IP address
prime/admin# ncs stop verbose
prime/admin# configure terminal
prime/admin(config)# interface gigabitEthernet 0
prime/admin(config-GigabitEthernet)# ip address 192.168.1.222 255.255.255.0
prime/admin(config-GigabitEthernet)# no shutdown
prime/admin(config-GigabitEthernet)# exit
prime/admin(config)# ip default-gateway 192.168.1.254
prime/admin(config)# exit
prime/admin# ncs start verbose

Save Configuration
prime/admin# write memory

Shutdown
prime/admin# shell
Enter shell access password : at first time you should configure password
Starting bash shell ...
ade # shutdown -h now

Reference documentation
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/net_mgmt/prime/infrastructure/3-1/command/reference/cli31/cli211_chapter_010.html



regards.