topic Re: NX5500 auto provisioning in ExtremeWireless (WiNG)

NX5500 auto provisioning

OGB-NIKO — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 17:29:00 GMT

Can someone tell me the steps to make sure auto provisioning is enabled in my nx5500 controller

Re: NX5500 auto provisioning

ckelly — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 22:30:45 GMT

OGB-NIKO:

The way that auto-provisioning works is that you create an Auto-Provisioning Policy and then you select within the controllers Profile to use that Policy. So it’s 2 steps.

Have you created the Auto-Provisioning Policy?

Have you selected in the NX5500 Profile to use the auto-provisioning policy?

Are you doing this in the GUI or CLI?

Re: NX5500 auto provisioning

OGB-NIKO — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 22:33:02 GMT

YES

Yes

GUI

Re: NX5500 auto provisioning

ckelly — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 22:38:25 GMT

So if everything is setup correctly (rules are created correctly) then you should see the expected behaviors of the rules as you have created them in the auto-provisioning rules.

Are you not seeing the expected behavior or are you just wanting to see if there’s a way validate the setup? If it’s the later, then no. The only way to verify would be for someone to confirm your configuration. Otherwise, validation would be that you are seeing the rules behaving as expected.

Re: NX5500 auto provisioning

OGB-NIKO — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 22:44:10 GMT

I think i disabled auto but am not sure where to turn it back on in the GUI.

Re: NX5500 auto provisioning

ckelly — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 22:49:18 GMT

I’m not sure of what you are referring to with “auto”.

In the NX5500’s Profile, you simply need to have the auto-provisioning policy selected, as shown here.

Re: NX5500 auto provisioning

OGB-NIKO — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 23:10:30 GMT

You found it and yes it was set to no and none i found the policy that was created when i go to upgrade to 7.5.2 should i re-enable auto to make deployment easier ?

Re: NX5500 auto provisioning

ckelly — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 23:14:14 GMT

Okay, so if the circled “Auto-Provisioning Policy” drop-down listing was set to “none” then the auto-provisioning policy you created was NOT being used.

The auto-provisioning policy is mainly used during a deployment, so if you already have APs deployed and there’s no changes happening, then the auto-provisioning policy won’t be doing much or anything at all even if enabled.

But, if you are currently in the process or deploying APs, then yes, enabling auto-provisioning is helpful and I’d recommend re-enabling it.

Re: NX5500 auto provisioning

Christoph_S — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 05:15:35 GMT

Hello Niko,

I believe that Chris answered your questions but here’s an article on creating and enabling auto provisioning policies for your perusal: https://extremeportal.force.com/ExtrArticleDetail?an=000088755

Thank you