Cisco Wireless PowerPack Release Notes, version 103

Version 103 of the Cisco Wireless PowerPack includes updates to some Dynamic Applications to address security concerns.

  • Minimum Required SL1 Version: 8.14.0

Before You Install

Ensure that you are running version 8.14.0 or later of SL1 before installing "Cisco Wireless" PowerPack version 103.

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

Installation Process

To install version 103 of the Cisco Wireless PowerPack, perform the following steps:

By default, installing a new version of a PowerPack will overwrite all content in 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 the new version of the PowerPack from overwriting local changes for some commonly customized fields.

If you are currently using the Dynamic Applications in this PowerPack to monitor devices, collection errors might occur for one or two polling cycles during the installation of a new version. To prevent collection errors during an upgrade, you can optionally disable collection for monitored devices before performing the following steps and re-enable collection after the upgrade.

To install this PowerPack:

  1. Familiarize yourself with the Known Issues for this release.
  2. See the Before You Install or Upgrade section. If you have not done so already, upgrade your system to the 8.14.0 or later release.
  3. Download the "Cisco Wireless" version 103PowerPack from the Support Site to a local computer.
  4. Go to the PowerPack Manager page (System > Manage > PowerPacks). Click the Actions menu and choose Import PowerPack. When prompted, import "Cisco Wireless" version 103.
  5. Click the Install button. For details on installing PowerPacks, see the chapter on Installing a PowerPack in the PowerPacks manual.

See the manual Monitoring ... for instructions on using the new PowerPack.

Features

This release includes the following features:

  • Dynamic Applications that discover and collect data from all Cisco wireless LAN controller (WLC) 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

Enhancements and Issues Addressed

The following enhancements and addressed issues are included this release of the "Cisco Wireless" PowerPack:

  • Snippet logging was updated in the "Cisco: WLC Rogue APs" Dynamic Application to ensure that usernames, passwords, API keys, or authorization tokens are hidden.

Known Issues

The following known issues affect version 103 of the Cisco Wireless PowerPack:

  • There is a known issue in the "Cisco: WLC AP Config" Dynamic Application in which MAC addresses are being stored with spaces instead of colons. To fix this:
  • Go to the Dynamic Applications Manager page (System > Manage > Applications), locate the "Cisco: WLC AP Config" Dynamic Application and click its wrench icon ().
  • Click the Collections tab, locate the "Dot3 MAC Address" collection object and click its wrench icon ().
  • In the Class Type field, select [17] Config MAC Address.
  • In the String Type field, select Hex Unicode.
  • Click Save.
  • Repeat these steps for the "Ethernet MAC Address" collection object.
  • In the "Cisco: WLC AP Discovery" and "Cisco: WLC AP Interface Discovery" Dynamic Applications, some values are missing from the "POSSIBLE ENUM VALUES" tooltip for some of the collected configuration data metrics.