Positioning APs on prime infrastructure map
I have a 3600i AP positioned vertically on a wall facing out. I know this is bad placement I am working on getting them all oriented with some new mounts for the type of office we have. How do I position this in terms of orientation and elevation. After I position the AP on the map and check the heatmap I am expecting to see low signal going behind the AP but it still looks like the AP is horizontal.
If the upper left is 0 degrees and my wall is on the right side of my map along the Y axis with the AP mounted facing back towards the left side of my map. What should my elevation and orientation be set to?
Please see the below link. It will describe how you can decide the elevation and orientation of AP.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/solutions/Enterprise/Mobility/wifich5.html
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So, I created a new campus with a new campus layout image. I'm trying to move the existing buildings from the old campus to the new campus, but when I try I get the following error.
Error(s): You must correct the following error(s) before proceeding:
Error:Unknown Exception Occurred. If the problem persists please send logs to the Tech Support.
Error:Detail: Row was updated or deleted by another transaction (or unsaved-value mapping was incorrect):[com.cisco.server.managedobjects.servicedomain.ServiceDomain#50255481]
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CSCul23421
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Network topology map Cisco Prime Infrastructure
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Cisco Prime Infrastructure 1.3 to 2.1
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You can navigate down to it via:
HOME
SUPPORT
PRODUCT SUPPORT
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Sweet!
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Hello Community,
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br,
chris -
Migrate from WCS 7.0 to Prime Infrastructure 1.2
Hi All,
I am looking for advice on the licensing and upgrade path for going from WCS 7.0 to PI 1.2.
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to order R-W-PI12-M-K9 (WCS 7.0 to Cisco Prime Infrastructure 1.2 Migration)
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Once Prime is installed I also want to manage another 50 devices, does that mean I have to purchase the
Cisco PI 1.2 Base License and Software (R-PI12-Base-K9) and another 50 Lifecycle licenses, or will
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PI/admin# show restore log
Started at : Thu Dec 18 11:59:29 2014
Initiating restore. Please wait...
Restore Started at 12/18/14 11:59:36
Stage 1 of 9: Transferring backup file ...
-- completed at 12/18/14 12:00:33
Stage 2 of 9: Decrypting backup file ...
-- completed at 12/18/14 12:05:08
Stage 3 of 9: Unpacking backup file ...
-- completed at 12/18/14 12:05:10
Stage 4 of 9: Decompressing backup ...
-- completed at 12/18/14 12:08:30
Stage 5 of 9: Restoring Support Files ...
-- completed at 12/18/14 12:08:31
Stage 6 of 9: Restoring Database Files ...
-- completed at 12/18/14 12:08:54
Stage 7 of 9: Recovering Database ...
-- completed at 12/18/14 12:36:03
Stage 8 of 9: Updating Database Schema ...
Stage 1 of 5: Pre Migration Schema Upgrade ...
-- completed at: 2014-12-18 12:56:00.638, Time Taken : 0 hr, 14 min, 59 sec
Stage 2 of 5: Schema Upgrade ...
: This could take long time based on the existing data size.
-- completed at: 2014-12-18 13:11:04.244, Time Taken : 0 hr, 15 min, 3 sec
Stage 3 of 5: Post Migration Schema Upgrade ...
-- completed at: 2014-12-18 13:31:26.188, Time Taken : 0 hr, 20 min, 21 sec
Stage 4 of 5: Enabling DB Constraints ...
-- completed at: 2014-12-18 13:31:58.651, Time Taken : 0 hr, 0 min, 27 sec
Stage 5 of 5: Finishing Up ...
-- completed at: 2014-12-18 13:32:22.251, Time Taken : 0 hr, 0 min, 23 sec
-- completed at 12/18/14 13:33:29
Stage 9 of 9: Re-enabling Database Settings ...
-- completed at 12/18/14 13:33:29
Total Restore duration is: 01h:33m:53s
INFO: Restore completed successfully.
Starting PI Server... This may take some time
Starting Prime Infrastructure...
This may take a while (10 minutes or more) ...
Prime Infrastructure started successfully.
Finished at : Thu Dec 18 13:56:36 2014
PI/admin#Hello,
I have a case where customer is restoring backup from Prime Infrastructure 2.1 to 2.2.The zipped DB size is 28GB. It's being more than 29hrs....the restoration process ongoing. Customer is restoring the database from FTP server.
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ade # tail -f dbadmin_StdOut.log
In com.cisco.upgrade.MigrateRFMModel: preMigration()
2.1.0.87 matched within [2.1.0.0,2.1.0.999]
-- completed at: 2015-03-10 17:07:31.928, Time Taken : 0 hr, 14 min, 27 sec
Stage 2 of 5: Schema Upgrade ...
: This could take long time based on the existing data size.
-- completed at: 2015-03-10 17:11:06.612, Time Taken : 0 hr, 3 min, 34 sec
Stage 3 of 5: Post Migration Schema Upgrade ...
In com.cisco.upgrade.MigrateRFMModel: postMigration()
/**** PostMigration SQLs ****/
2.1.0.87 matched within [2.1.0.0,2.1.0.999]
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10-MAR-15 05.19.38.743478000 PM +00:00: 10-MAR-15 05.19.38.743411000 PM +00:00:: Beginning upgrade script rootallUrlTask
10-MAR-15 05.19.38.744821000 PM +00:00: 10-MAR-15 05.19.38.744797000 PM +00:00:: get count from xmptask where instancename=rootallUrlTask and urlexpression=.*
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10-MAR-15 05.19.38.746201000 PM +00:00: 10-MAR-15 05.19.38.746188000 PM +00:00:: Committing
10-MAR-15 05.19.38.750147000 PM +00:00: COMPLETED script PI22_upgrade_rootAllUrlTask_Expression.sql execution
10-MAR-15 05.19.38.752041000 PM +00:00: STARTED script setauth.sql execution
10-MAR-15 05.26.40.031852000 PM +00:00: COMPLETED script setauth.sql execution
10-MAR-15 05.26.40.033094000 PM +00:00: STARTED script ifm_sam_pm_ddl.sql execution
10-MAR-15 05.28.15.781912000 PM +00:00: COMPLETED script ifm_sam_pm_ddl.sql execution
10-MAR-15 05.28.15.784297000 PM +00:00: STARTED script PA_Upgrade_2_1.sql execution -
Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.0 - no traps/info are pushed from devices
Good evening,
I have setup Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.0 and, though I have added manually my 4 network cores as devices without any problem, I can't get a single trap or a single SNMP information to be pushed into my Cisco Prime Infra.
Here is my SNMP config on my core :
snmp-server user *edited* *edited* v3
snmp-server group *edited* v3 noauth notify *tv.FFFFFFFF.FFFFFFFF.FFFFFFFF.FFFFFFFF.FFFFFFFF.FFFFFFFF.FFFFFFFF.FFFFFFFF.FFFFFFFF.FFFFFFFF.FFFFFFFF.FFFFFFFF.FFFFFFFF.FFFFFFFF.FFFFFFFF0F
snmp-server community *edited* RO
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snmp-server enable traps ospf retransmit
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snmp-server enable traps ospf cisco-specific state-change shamlink interface
snmp-server enable traps ospf cisco-specific state-change shamlink neighbor
snmp-server enable traps ospf cisco-specific errors
snmp-server enable traps ospf cisco-specific retransmit
snmp-server enable traps ospf cisco-specific lsa
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snmp-server enable traps fru-ctrl
snmp-server enable traps entity
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snmp-server enable traps ethernet cfm crosscheck mep-missing mep-unknown service-up
snmp-server enable traps ether-oam
snmp-server enable traps aaa_server
snmp-server enable traps flash insertion removal
snmp-server enable traps l2tc threshold sys-threshold
snmp-server enable traps power-ethernet police
snmp-server enable traps rep
snmp-server enable traps vswitch dual-active vsl
snmp-server enable traps udld link-fail-rpt status-change
snmp-server enable traps vtp
snmp-server enable traps vlancreate
snmp-server enable traps vlandelete
snmp-server enable traps auth-framework sec-violation
snmp-server enable traps dot1x auth-fail-vlan guest-vlan no-auth-fail-vlan no-guest-vlan
snmp-server enable traps envmon fan shutdown supply temperature status
snmp-server enable traps entity-diag boot-up-fail hm-test-recover hm-thresh-reached scheduled-test-fail
snmp-server enable traps port-security
snmp-server enable traps ethernet evc status create delete
snmp-server enable traps energywise
snmp-server enable traps ipsla
snmp-server enable traps vstack
snmp-server enable traps bfd
snmp-server enable traps bgp
snmp-server enable traps bulkstat collection transfer
snmp-server enable traps cef resource-failure peer-state-change peer-fib-state-change inconsistency
snmp-server enable traps config-copy
snmp-server enable traps config
snmp-server enable traps config-ctid
snmp-server enable traps event-manager
snmp-server enable traps hsrp
snmp-server enable traps ipmulticast
snmp-server enable traps isis
snmp-server enable traps msdp
snmp-server enable traps pim neighbor-change rp-mapping-change invalid-pim-message
snmp-server enable traps bridge newroot topologychange
snmp-server enable traps stpx inconsistency root-inconsistency loop-inconsistency
snmp-server enable traps syslog
snmp-server enable traps isakmp policy add
snmp-server enable traps isakmp policy delete
snmp-server enable traps isakmp tunnel start
snmp-server enable traps isakmp tunnel stop
snmp-server enable traps ipsec cryptomap add
snmp-server enable traps ipsec cryptomap delete
snmp-server enable traps ipsec cryptomap attach
snmp-server enable traps ipsec cryptomap detach
snmp-server enable traps ipsec tunnel start
snmp-server enable traps ipsec tunnel stop
snmp-server enable traps ipsec too-many-sas
snmp-server enable traps errdisable
snmp-server enable traps ethernet cfm alarm
snmp-server enable traps vlan-membership
snmp-server enable traps mac-notification change move threshold
snmp-server enable traps vrfmib vrf-up vrf-down vnet-trunk-up vnet-trunk-down
snmp-server host *ip-address-edited* version 3 noauth *edited*
Basically all traps are enabled but absolutely nothing is showing up in my Prime Infra except that my 4 devices are "Reachable".
Here is a show snmp on the same device :
sh snmp
Chassis: *S/N Edited*
38554534 SNMP packets input
0 Bad SNMP version errors
14 Unknown community name
0 Illegal operation for community name supplied
0 Encoding errors
38453185 Number of requested variables
0 Number of altered variables
17790703 Get-request PDUs
20583581 Get-next PDUs
0 Set-request PDUs
0 Input queue packet drops (Maximum queue size 1000)
38490708 SNMP packets output
0 Too big errors (Maximum packet size 1500)
0 No such name errors
0 Bad values errors
0 General errors
38371069 Response PDUs
13 Trap PDUs
SNMP global trap: enabled
SNMP agent enabled
SNMP logging: enabled
Logging to *edited*, 0/10, 13 sent, 0 dropped.
Can anyone point out what is wrong or missing in my configuration? I can't seem to single it out myself.
Thanks
JeremyHi Jeremy,
SNMP traps are shown in the events and alerts section of PI.
SNMP config looks fine. Can you run the SNMP debug (debug snmp packets ) .check the logs and see if the device is actually sending the TRAPS to the PI server.
Thanks-
Afroz
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