All right, it is time to make our access point broadcast an SSID.
And at this point, we know an SSID is tied to our WLANs.
And so we're going to go over to that tab and use this drop down actually the
default
here is just to create new, but interestingly, we just make sure it's on new
and click go
to create a new WLAN.
So from here, I can name the profile along with giving it an SSID.
This is very similar to how it works in iOS Xe.
So I'm going to call this CBT test or CBT N test.
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And then we'll say CBT N test here as well.
Now, keep in mind, the profile name is just a local value that I can look at in
the controller
and know what it is.
The SSID is what actually gets broadcast.
And usually we're just going to leave those the same.
I can select the ID.
Again, we can support up to 16 WLANs, but we can just let the system decide the
ID there
as well.
So from here, we are taken to the area where we can configure our SSID.
And so under the general, this is where we're going to do some important things
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.
For example, enabling it.
Remember, we had to do that in iOS Xe as well.
We'll see the security policies here, but we can't actually change that.
We'll go to the security tab for that in a moment.
Radio policy, we can make it so it applies to specific bands on its own.
But here's the big one.
What interface does it get mapped to?
If I wanted to go to VLAN 10, I'd place it on the test interface.
Enter face.
If I wanted on the default native VLAN, I would place it on to management.
And in my environment, that's what I want.
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Again, in lab environments, it's fine to use management and production.
We really shouldn't do that.
Now whether I want to broadcast the SSID as well, this is not considered a
wireless security
feature.
However, it can help to clean up our wireless space when we're looking for
wireless networks.
If we don't want it to our this SSID to show up in people's list, we can
disable this.
Again, not a security feature, more just a way to keep our space cleaner.
So that's a lot of what we want to do on this tab.
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Now from here, we can go to the security.
And like we did before, we're just going to say none here.
And the reason for that is because we're going to have another session where we
configure
security.
So let's just make it so that this works.
And so that's it.
I'm going to click apply here.
We don't need to do any QOS or anything like that.
And so at this point, the WLAN, the SSID is created.
So we see the SSID here.
Status is enabled and everything should look good.
So I can come over here to WLANs, see the WLAN in the list. WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
So I can come over here to WLANs, see the WLAN in the list.
Now I can go take a look at my wireless networks.
If we're trying to join this, got to turn on my Wi-Fi here.
And so I'm going to, let's see here, we are going to show the bottom corner of
my screen
here.
And again, I'm going to look for that SSID.
And I do not see the SSID in the list.
Why don't I see it in the list?
Well remember, we are not done yet because this WLAN is going to get applied to
specific
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AP groups.
And it only gets applied to the default by default.
So let's go ahead and click over here on advanced, go to AP groups.
And if I click on default group, for example, and go to WLANs, we'll see that
it's right
there.
And access points in the default group are already broadcasting this SSID.
This is one reason why we don't want to use the default group because access
points automatically
get added there, WLANs automatically get added there.
It's a lack of control for us.
So instead, I'm going to go back to AP groups, click on my CBTN group, go to W WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
So instead, I'm going to go back to AP groups, click on my CBTN group, go to W
LANs, notice
nothing's here by default.
Going to click add new.
And we're going to add my test, my interface here, click add.
And now we should see that it's broadcasting.
So let's go ahead and flip back over to my screen corner, pull up my wireless
and right
there CBTN test.
And I should be able to connect to it because I didn't add any security.
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And so this is how we get SSIDs to broadcast.
Again, we have to keep in mind that we're trying to bridge or make it so that
are, well,
they're just waiting for it to connect.
So now it has connected.
So what we're doing here is we're using our AP groups to connect to the access
points,
but our WLAN sort of sit in the middle.
The WLANs connect to the interface like we drew out earlier.
That is the interface defines the VLAN for us.
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The WLAN in the middle defines the SSID and the SSID configurations.
But then that has to be mapped to the AP groups in order to get mapped to the
access
point.
So just keeping that architecture straight in our heads will go a long way.
And a picture is worth a thousand words.
And so let's just go back to our chalkboard here to make sure we recall how
this works.
We've got, like I said, the interface that is specified within the WLAN, which
has the
SSID in it.
And then that must get mapped to the AP group so it can get pushed out to the
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access point.
So this is the component that was missing, which is why it didn't show up.
As soon as we added this in, it did show up and get broadcasting.
So that is the end-to-end configuration for getting our SSIDs online.