WCAE - Wireless Config Analyzer Express Tool for Configuration auditing, Best Practices score, in-depth RF analysis and checking typical support issues. Support for AireOS and 9800 IOS-XE Controllers, availble in Mac OS, Windows 10 and Cloud versions. The tool will help on preventing TAC cases, and ensure you can detect the most common problem scenarios.

Wireless Config Analyzer Express

Notes:

What is WCAE?

  • Application to analyze and validate your Wireless Network, including all controller types, and any AP model
  • Based on learnings over years of case experience from TAC and Wireless Escalation teams
  • New implementation for the WLC Config Analyzer. it is a new re-write of the application, with clean up and improved checks
  • Two versions available: as Cloud, just upload your file and get a summary report, or as mini-Desktop application, with more detailed information
  • Objectives:
    • Save time processing WLC configurations, finding hundreds of different possible configuration errors
    • In depth RF Analysis
    • Audit config against best practices rule sets
  • It is fully offline to the controller, it does not store any data, or sends any data back
  • It is not a TAC supported product, it is basically provided "as is"
  • Supports both 9800 and AireOS controller

Quick Feature list:

  • Configuration Checks
  • RF Health Analysis
  • RF Stats Summarization
  • Upgrade Advisor
  • Channel Stats (per site/flex, covering client, power levels, rogues, etc)
  • Tag/Policy usage
  • RRM analysis
  • Log Message Summarization
  • Ap inventory
  • RF Graph Analysis
  • Client Audits: 8821, iPhone, Drager and others

What is needed?

  • if using AireOS controller: the output of the "show run-config" command
  • if using IOS-XE controller: the output of "show tech wireless"
  • It does not work with TFTP config backup, or sh tech
  • For AireOS, the best way to collect is is using TFTP with “transfer upload data run-conf”
  • Alternatively: use SSH with config paging disabled

What is supported?

  • Single WLC scenario. No support for multiple WLCs/files
  • AireOS version 8.0 and higher
  • IOS-XE version 16.11 and higher
  • All controller/Mobility Express (ME) hardware types

WCAE mini-Desktop

  • Same engine as the cloud version, same checks
  • A lot more details, specially on the RF analysis side
  • Per AP detailed information
  • Several new reports included
  • Supports Mac OS or Windows 10
  • Results can be exported as text or XLS file

Reports included

  • Excel or text results file on same location as source
  • WLC and AP check results
  • Syslog summarization
  • For 9800, Tag and Profile usage summarization
  • RF Stats per band, Flex group, AP group/Tag
  • RF Health per band
  • Channel stats
  • AP configuration summary
  • Per AP RF health and stats
  • Neighbor reports
  • Flexconnect AP config verification