Airport Express in Cisco Business

Hello!
We got a Cisco Wireless Business network setup. Two Cisco 521 Accesspoints and a Cisco Wireless Controller 526. Encrypted with AES on WPA2 Personal. Everything is working fine, all windows and mac os x computers/laptops work on it. But after we configured the Airport Express to join this wireless network it does get an ip (we can ping it) but doesn't show up in the Airport Utility.
Someone got an idea?
Thanks!

M.Arnoldussen wrote:
We got a Cisco Wireless Business network setup. Two Cisco 521 Accesspoints and a Cisco Wireless Controller 526. Encrypted with AES on WPA2 Personal. Everything is working fine, all windows and mac os x computers/laptops work on it. But after we configured the Airport Express to join this wireless network it does get an ip (we can ping it) but doesn't show up in the Airport Utility.
Welcome to Apple's discussion groups.
Try connecting to the AirPort Express with an Ethernet cable to see if that allows AirPort Utility to see it.

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