topic RE: Wireless Controllers vs Inventory Mgr in ExtremeCloud IQ- Site Engine Management Center

Wireless Controllers vs Inventory Mgr

Graeme_Golding — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 09:54:00 GMT

It's been annoying me for some time that I can't find a way to get inventory manager to backup the WiFi controllers. Built new Netsight Host today on v5 in the hope that would fix it, but no. Also complains that no CLI credentials have been set, then fails & leaves a "Config File is empty" Any idea.s

RE: Wireless Controllers vs Inventory Mgr

Charlie_Altherr — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 17:47:00 GMT

This is doable. I had challenges setting it up initially as well. I will have top go back to my notes and configuration to be able to tell you how to do it. Success revolves around using SCP, proper configuration of the controllers, the accounts used, validating those accounts have permission to write a temp file to the user dircetory and configuring NetSight to use SCP for the controiler backup and proper permission here as well. It will probably be a week or two before I will have the time to document the details, but will post when done. Is your NetSight environment Ubuntu or Windows?

RE: Wireless Controllers vs Inventory Mgr

TylerMarcotte — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 18:39:00 GMT

This can be done in a few clicks now. Basically you're going to go to Inventory Manager options and set the NetSight server credentials for SCP. Then make sure the wireless controller File Transfer Method is set for SCP (This should be a default). After that it should all just work properly.

RE: Wireless Controllers vs Inventory Mgr

Michael_Kirchne — Sun, 16 Nov 2014 18:49:00 GMT

Old topic but just to add:

if NetSight is running under a different user than root (e.g. netsight) than the Root Directory path and user has to be changed:

Best Regards
Michael