Monitor capwap access points

Hello ,
After migrating from standalone access points to capwap access points ( with wireless lan controller / Cisco Prime ) , a lot of people are wondering how to monitor their AP's by receiving traps from the controllers .
I am searching for trap list that should be accepted by a monitoring product ( ie nagios  ) in order to monitor the status of the access points .
Where can i find this info ?
Thank you in advance for your help ;
Rgds.
Hubert.

Since all AP managed by WLC, all information available from WLC, no need to directly get this information from AP directly.
If you want you can configure AP & WLC syslog to export to a syslog server & then analyse them. Below post may give some idea
http://mrncciew.com/2014/09/19/wlc-syslog-analysis/
http://mrncciew.com/2013/02/06/syslog-msg-log-in-wlc/
HTH
Rasika
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