Introduction

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The following sections provide an overview of Cisco wireless LAN controllers and the Cisco: Wireless PowerPack:

What are Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers?

Cisco wireless LAN controllers (WLC) play a central role in Cisco unified wireless networks. WLCs collect management and data packets from the network's access points (AP) and then switch those packets between wireless clients and the wired portion of the network. The WLC also controls the network configuration and passes this configuration data to the access points, which act as wireless client interfaces.

What Does the Cisco: Wireless PowerPack Monitor?

The Cisco: Wireless PowerPack enables you to monitor Cisco WLCs and APs using the AIRESPACE-WIRELESS-MIB and CISCO-LWAPP-MIB. The PowerPack includes the following features:

  • Dynamic Applications that discover and collect data from all Cisco WLC component devices monitored

  • Event Policies and corresponding alerts that are triggered when Cisco WLC component devices meet certain status criteria
  • Device Classes for each of the Cisco WLC component devices monitored
  • Device Dashboards that display information about Cisco WLC component devices

Installing the Cisco: Wireless PowerPack

Before completing the steps in this section, you must import and install the latest version of the Cisco: Wireless PowerPack.

By default, installing a new version of a PowerPack overwrites all content from a previous version of that PowerPack that has already been installed on the target system. You can use the Enable Selective PowerPack Field Protection setting in the Behavior Settings page (System > Settings > Behavior) to prevent new PowerPacks from overwriting local changes for some commonly customized fields. For more information, see the section on Global Settings.

Ensure that you are running version 12.1.2 or later of SL1 before installing this PowerPack.

For details on upgrading SL1, see the relevant SL1 Platform Release Notes.

To download and install the PowerPack:

  1. Search for and download the PowerPack from the PowerPacks page (Product Downloads > PowerPacks & SyncPacks) at the ScienceLogic Support Site.
  2. In SL1, go to the PowerPacks page (System > Manage > PowerPacks).
  3. Click the Actions button and choose Import PowerPack. The Import PowerPack dialog box appears.
  4. Click [Browse] and navigate to the PowerPack file from step 1.
  5. Select the PowerPack file and click Import. The PowerPack Installer modal displays a list of the PowerPack contents.
  6. Click Install. The PowerPack is added to the PowerPacks page.

If you exit the PowerPack Installer modal without installing the imported PowerPack, the imported PowerPack will not appear in the PowerPacks page. However, the imported PowerPack will appear in the Imported PowerPacks modal. This page appears when you click the Actions menu and select Install PowerPack.