Avaya WLAN 8100 Series Service manual

Avaya WLAN 8100 CLI Reference
Release 2.1.0
NN47251-107
Issue 05.02
August 2013

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Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction...................................................................................................... 7
Purpose..................................................................................................................................................... 7
Related Resources.................................................................................................................................... 7
Documentation................................................................................................................................. 7
Training............................................................................................................................................ 7
Avaya Mentor videos........................................................................................................................ 8
Support...................................................................................................................................................... 8
Chapter 2: New in this release........................................................................................... 9
Features.................................................................................................................................................... 9
Other Changes.......................................................................................................................................... 10
Chapter 3: Overview of WLAN deployment solutions..................................................... 11
Chapter 4: ACLI reference for Wireless LAN (WLAN) 8100............................................. 13
ACLI reference for the Wireless LAN (WLAN) 8100................................................................................. 13
Performing controller configuration using the WC 8180 Quick Configuration utility......................... 13
Viewing WLAN 8100 current configuration....................................................................................... 16
Configuring and managing Remote Packet Capture........................................................................ 18
Configuring and managing Client Band Steering and Client load balancing.................................... 27
Configuring and managing Captive Portals...................................................................................... 28
Configuring and managing RADIUS................................................................................................. 41
Auto-RF............................................................................................................................................ 53
Configuring and viewing the Tunnel Path MTU................................................................................ 62
DiffServ............................................................................................................................................. 63
AeroScout......................................................................................................................................... 73
Station Isolation................................................................................................................................ 75
Ekahau RTLS support...................................................................................................................... 77
Wi-Fi Zoning..................................................................................................................................... 80
Domain AP configuration.................................................................................................................. 87
Wireless security — WIDS-WIPS configuration and management.................................................. 99
Configuring a MAC filter blacklist..................................................................................................... 110
Wireless Security — Client MAC validation...................................................................................... 111
Load Balancing of APs and WSPs................................................................................................... 119
Commonly used configuration procedures....................................................................................... 129
Chapter 5: ACLI Reference for wired networks................................................................ 145
ACLI reference for wired networks............................................................................................................ 145
Configuring system options.............................................................................................................. 145
Configuring system security............................................................................................................. 195
Configuring VLANs and Link Aggregation........................................................................................ 236
Configuring IP routing....................................................................................................................... 271
Configuring Access Lists.................................................................................................................. 305
Configuring Elements, Classifiers, and Classifier Blocks................................................................. 309
Configuring wired Quality of Service................................................................................................ 316
Configuring Serviceability................................................................................................................. 351
Configuring diagnostics and graphing.............................................................................................. 361
Appendix A: Supported Country Codes........................................................................... 377
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Purpose
This document is an Avaya Command Line Interface (CLI) Commands Reference guide for
the configuration and management of the Avaya Wireless LAN (WLAN) 8100 solution.
The ACLI commands reference is organized into two parts:
•ACLI reference for Wireless LAN (WLAN) 8100
This chapter describe the major WLAN 8100 features for release 2.1 and the typical ACLI
commands for their configuration and management.
•ACLI reference for wired networks
This chapter describes typical ACLI commands for wired network configuration.
For further information on the features of the Wireless LAN 8100 solution, see Avaya WLAN
8100 Fundamentals (NN47251–102).
Related Resources
Documentation
For a list of the documentation for this product, see Avaya WLAN 8100 Documentation
Roadmap (NN47251-100).
Training
Ongoing product training is available. For more information or to register, see http://avaya-
learning.com/.
Enter the course code in the Search field and click Go to search for the course.
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Course Code Course Title
6769X Avaya Wireless LAN 8100 Implementation and
Management
4D00045V Avaya VENA Unified Access Implementation
Wireless LAN 8100 AIPS credential
7D00060A Wireless LAN 8100 Implementation Assessment (online
test)
Avaya Mentor videos
Avaya Mentor is an Avaya-run channel on YouTube that includes technical content on how to
install, configure, and troubleshoot Avaya products.
Go to http://www.youtube.com/AvayaMentor and perform one of the following actions:
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or topic.
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posted on the site.
Support
Visit the Avaya Support website at http://support.avaya.com for the most up-to-date
documentation, product notices, and knowledge articles. You can also search for release
notes, downloads, and resolutions to issues. Use the online service request system to create
a service request. Chat with live agents to get answers to questions, or request an agent to
connect you to a support team if an issue requires additional expertise.
Introduction
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Chapter 2: New in this release
The following sections detail what's new in the Avaya WLAN 8100 — CLI Reference (NN47251-107), for
release 2.1.0.
The Features section describes new features, and the Other Changes section describes non-feature
changes in Release 2.1.0.
•Features on page 9
•Other changes on page 10
Features
This document has been updated with the Avaya Command Line Interface (CLI) commands
for configuration of the following features for release 2.1.0.
• Auto-RF
•AeroScout RTLS support
• Ekahau RTLS support
• Station Isolation
• EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA support
• Tunnel Path MTU
• MAC-based RADIUS authentication
• Wi-Fi Zoning
• LED management on a domain AP database
Additionally, the following are supported in this release:
• Domain AP configuration such as:
- enabling or disabling individual AP radios
- saving AP radio or power configuration to the AP database
- configuring specific domain AP parameters on the AP such as its model, location
parameters and controller information.
• Quick configuration utility for the WC 8180, that can be run from the Avaya CLI.
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This utility displays a series of prompts that help you set up the required configuration on
the controller.
The following enhancements have been introduced in the Captive Portal feature.
• Open-guest authentication of Captive Portal guest users.
• A 128-character limit on the user name specified in the Captive Portal login page, for
RADIUS-based Captive Portal user authentication.
• Certificate Manager support
• DiffServ Policy support
• Increase in the number of Captive Portal IP addresses supported.
• Captive Portal Walled Garden
The WLAN Management System (WMS) has had several enhancements with respect to
performance, reliability of the data displayed and consistency, to create a better user
experience. Vast improvements have been made in the following areas in the WMS:
• Monitoring capabilities, enhanced user experience with the provision to perform domain-
wide actions, and a consistent look-and feel.
• Troubleshooting or diagnostics
• Reporting capabilities
The current release supports additional country codes. For the entire list of country codes
supported in this release, see Supported country codes on page 377.
This document does not contain feature updates. For more information on the features and
enhancements for release 2.1.0, see the Avaya WLAN 8100 Fundamentals (NN47251–
102).
For more information on the WMS enhancements see the Avaya WLAN 8100 GUI
Reference (NN47251–108).
Other Changes
Additional parameters such as RSSI (%), Signal strength (in dBm) and Noise (in dBm) are now
displayed when viewing wireless client status details using the command show wireless
client status detail.
New in this release
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Chapter 3: Overview of WLAN deployment
solutions
The current release of Avaya WLAN supports the following deployment models.
•WLAN Overlay
In the Overlay deployment, the Wireless Controller (WC) 8180 controls/manages Access Points (AP)
over a control channel and data is tunneled between the APs and the controller over an access
tunnel. Two or more WCs in the domain form a cluster, with a mesh of control channels and data
tunnels between each other.
•WLAN Unified Access
In the Avaya VENA Unified Access deployment, the wireless controller deploys in the control-plane
mode of operation of the 8180 platform. This device then hosts only the wireless control function and
is called a wireless control point (WCP). A switch such as the Avaya ERS 8600/8800 introduced into
the network, tunnels traffic (data) and is known as the wireless switching point (WSP). The APs and
WSPs tunnel traffic between each other over an access tunnel and the WSPs tunnel traffic between
each other over a mobility tunnel.
Avaya implemented this solution by combining the functionality of the Avaya WC 8100 with the Avaya
Ethernet Routing Switch 8800/8600 (ERS 8800/8600).
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Overview of WLAN deployment solutions
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Chapter 4: ACLI reference for Wireless LAN
(WLAN) 8100
ACLI reference for the Wireless LAN (WLAN) 8100
The following sections describe the major WLAN 8100 features and the typical Avaya
Command Line Interface (ACLI) commands for their configuration and management.
Related topics:
Performing controller configuration using the WC 8180 Quick Configuration utility on
page 13
Viewing WLAN 8100 current configuration on page 16
Configuring and managing Remote Packet Capture on page 18
Configuring and managing Client Band Steering and Client load balancing on page 27
Configuring and managing Captive Portals on page 28
Configuring and managing RADIUS on page 41
Auto-RF on page 53
Configuring and viewing the Tunnel Path MTU on page 62
DiffServ on page 63
AeroScout on page 73
Station Isolation on page 75
Ekahau RTLS support on page 77
Wi-Fi Zoning on page 80
Domain AP configuration on page 87
Wireless security — WIDS-WIPS configuration and management on page 99
Configuring a MAC filter blacklist on page 110
Wireless Security — Client MAC validation on page 111
Load Balancing of APs and WSPs on page 119
Commonly used configuration procedures on page 129
Performing controller configuration using the WC 8180 Quick
Configuration utility
The WC 8180 Quick Configuration utility allows you to perform a quick configuration of the
WLAN 8100 controller. This utility is run from the Avaya CLI and consists of a series of prompts
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that are used to set up the required configuration on the controller. If the controller is reset with
default-settings, the install utility automatically runs on boot up.
Important:
The WC 8180 Quick Configuration utility is supported in only the Overlay deployment.
The WC 8180 Quick Configuration utility guides you through steps to configure the following:
• Management interface and Wireless or System interface
• Basic SNMP-v2
• Trap-host configuration
• SNTP
• telnet
• Wireless client interfaces
• Mobility VLANs
• Mobility domains
• Network profile, AP profile, Radio Profile and Captive Portal profile configuration
• Wireless RADIUS server configuration
• License download
Before you begin
• Remove the WC 8180 device from its packaging. Ensure you have the following hardware
components and materials:
- Wireless Controller (WC) 8180 device
- console cable
Procedure
1. Power on the WC 8180.
2. When the WC 8180 is up, connect the console cable.
3. Verify that the baud rate and other console parameters are properly configured. You
can view console parameters using the PuTTY application.
a. Open a PuTTY session.
b. On the left-hand-side tree view, click Serial.
c. Verify that the parameters are configured as follows:
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Figure 1: Console configuration
4. Press Ctrl+Y to start.
5. On the MENU screen, select Command Line Interface to go to the CLI.
6. Initiate the WC 8180 setup utility:
WC8180>en
WC8180#
WC8180#install
Related topics:
Verifying controller configuration on page 15
Verifying controller configuration
Use this procedure to verify the configuration after running the WC 8180 Quick Configuration
utility.
Procedure
1. Verify controller configuration:
WC8180#show wireless
Operation Mode : WC
Status : Enabled
Interface IP : 192.168.34.4
TCP/UDP base port : 61000
Base MAC Address : 58:16:26:FD:FE:00
Tunnel Path MTU : 1492
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2. Verify controller domain membership:
WC8180#show wireless controller domain-membership
Domain Name : Avaya
Domain Role : Active MDC
Domain Action Status : Join Success
Action Failure Reason : None
3. Verify domain configuration using the following command:
WC8180#show running-config module wireless
For more information on this command, see Viewing WLAN 8100 current
configuration on page 16.
Viewing WLAN 8100 current configuration
You can view the current configuration of the WLAN 8100 system using the show running-
config command.
Note:
You can run this command from any controller in the domain.
Procedure
1. Enter the command show running-config to view the current configuration on
the WLAN 8100 system.
Note:
The command show running-config displays the entire WLAN 8100 system
configuration. Only configuration that is different from the default configuration is
displayed.
Command options of the show running-config command:
WC8180#show running-config ?
module Display configuration of an application
verbose Display entire configuration (defaults and non-defaults)
Command options of the show running-config module command:
WC8180#show running-config module ?
802.1ab Display 802.1ab configuration
aaur Display AAUR configuration
adac Display ADAC configuration
arp-inspection Display ARP Inspection configuration
asset-id Display Asset ID configuration
aur Display AUR configuration
banner Display Custom Banner configuration
core Display Core configuration
default-cmd-interface Display Default Command Interface configuration
dhcp-relay Display DHCP Relay configuration
dhcp-snooping Display DHCP Snooping configuration
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interface Display Interface configuration
ip Display IP configuration
ip-source-guard Display IP Source Guard configuration
ipfix Display IPFIX configuration
ipmc Display IPMC configuration
ipmgr Display IP Manager configuration
ipv6 Display IPV6 configuration
l3 Display L3 configuration
l3-protocols Display L3 Protocols configuration
lacp Display LACP configuration
logging Display System Logging configuration
mac-security Display MAC Security configuration
mlt Display MLT configuration
nsna Display NSNA configuration
pim Display PIM configuration
port-mirroring Display Port Mirroring configuration
qos Display QoS configuration
rate-limit Display Rate Limiting configuration
rmon Display RMON configuration
rtc Display RTC configuration
slpp Display SLPP configuration
smlt Display SMLT configuration
snmp Display SNMP configuration
ssh Display SSH configuration
sshc Display SSHC configuration
ssl Display SSL configuration
stack Display Stack configuration
stkmon Display Stack Monitor configuration
stp Display STP configuration
unicast-storm-control Display Unicast Storm Control configuration
vlacp Display VLACP configuration
vlan Display VLAN configuration
wireless Display wireless configuration
<cr>
2. Use one of the following command options to view the current wireless
configuration:
WC8180#show running-config module wireless ?
ap-profile Display wireless ap profile configs.
auto-rf Display auto-rf configs
captive-portal Display wireless captive-portal configs
capture-profile Display wireless capture-profile
configs.
crypto Display wireless crypto configs
diffserv Display wireless diffserv configs.
domain Display wireless domian config
domain-ap Display domain ap configs
domain-ap-image-external-download Display wireless
domain-ap-image-external-download configs
domain-load-balance Display domain load balance configs
domain-wsp Display domain wsp configs
network-profile Display wireless network-profile
configs.
radio-profile Display wireless radio-profile configs.
security Display wireless security config
system Display wireless system configs
vlan-map Display wireless valn-map configs
<cr>
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Configuring and managing Remote Packet Capture
Remote packet capture enables live debugging to troubleshoot client related issues. It can also
be used to monitor traffic in a wireless network.
Remote packet capture enables you to capture packets on wireless interfaces on any AP in
the mobility domain. You can use this capability to troubleshoot wireless connectivity issues
and identify the nature of the wireless traffic at different locations in the deployment. You can
monitor wireless traffic in general.
To enable remote packet capture, you typically configure a capture profile on the AMDC of the
mobility domain and then apply this profile to specific APs in the mobility domain. Each capture
profile supports multiple configuration parameters that specify the behavior of the capture. You
can configure up to four capture profiles on the AMDC.
A single stream of packet capture between the remote capture device and observer host is
called a capture instance. A remote capture device can have one capture instance per capture
profile with a maximum of 4 capture instances.
A capture instance is started when a capture profile is applied to a AP using a start action.
A capture instance cannot be started when the configuration profiles are not synchronized in
the mobility domain.
A capture instance that is not active can be restarted using a restart action. A capture instance
that is active can be stopped using a stop action
Before starting the capture instance, you must install Wireshark on the observer host to capture
frames on the observer host IP of the capture instance.
Wireshark is a packet analyzer with extensive capabilities to analyze various protocols and is
freely available for download from the internet. Wireshark version 1.6 or higher support
decoding of CAPWAP encapsulated data.
After you install Wireshark, start the capture stream for the capture instance. Wireshark
displays received packets from the capture stream on the configured UDP port for the capture
instance. Wireshark can be configured to decode all packets received on the UDP port of the
capture stream as CAPWAP data packets.
The UDP port that is used for CAPWAP capture stream to the observer host is configured in
the capture profile.
Before you begin
Before you start a packet capture, ensure that you do the following on the Observer host
PC.
• Download the Netcat application from http://netcat.sourceforge.net/download.php to a
location on the PC.
• Open a UDP port for listening.
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Important:
If you do not open the UDP port on the observer host then the capture device receives
the ICMP port unreachable error for every capture packet in the capture stream.
This severely impacts the performance.
• Launch Netcat.
On a Windows machine, execute the following command at the location of installation of
Netcat. In the following example, 172.16.9.10 is the IP address of the Observer host
PC and the observer port is 37008.
D:\RPC\NetCat>nc -l -u -p 37008 -s 172.16.9.10 -v
listening on [172.16.9.10] 37008 ...
On a Linux machine, execute the command nc –l –u <port number>.
• Launch Wireshark to capture frames.
-In Wireshark, ensure that you configure the CAPWAP UDP data port correctly. To
decode the information packets correctly, this port must be the same as that opened
for listening on the observer host PC. On Wireshark, navigate to Edit, Preferences,
CAPWAP. Update the field CAPWAP data UDP port.
- Also ensure that you deselect Swap Frame Control.
•
Figure 2: Configuration of the CAPWAP UDP port on Wireshark
Procedure
1. Create a capture profile on the AMDC using the following command.
WC8180(config-wireless)#capture-profile ?
<1-4> Capture Profile ID
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Note:
You can configure a maximum of 4 capture profiles on the AMDC.
2. Configure the capture profile parameters using the following commands.
Important:
After you complete the configuration, ensure that you synchronize configuration
across all controllers in the mobility domain.
Overview of the capture profile configuration commands.
WC8180(config-capture-profile)#?
Capture Profile Configuration Commands
default Set a command to its default values
direction Filter capture by flow direction
duration Stop after elapsed duration in seconds
end End wireless capture configuration mode
exit Exit from wireless capture configuration mode
filters Set filters for the packet capture profile
interface Specify the capture interface(s) for the packet capture
no Disable capture profile parameters
observer-ip IP address of the observer host
observer-port L4 port on the observer host
profile-name Name of the profile
promisc-mode Enable promiscuous capture on selected interfaces
snap-length Truncate capture to a specified length (in bytes)
Configure the direction of the capture.
WC8180(config-capture-profile)#direction ?
both Transmit and receive
downlink Transmit only
uplink Receive only
Configure the duration of the capture.
WC8180(config-capture-profile)#duration ?
<0-86400> Enter capture duration in seconds
Configure filters for the capture.
WC8180(config-capture-profile)#filters ?
Set filters for the packet capture profile
client-mac Filter capture by client-mac
include-beacons Include 802.11 beacons in capture data
include-control Include 802.11 control frames in capture data
include-data Include 802.11 data in capture data
include-mgmt Include 802.11 mgmt frames other than probes/beacons
in the capture data
include-probes Include 802.11 probes in capture data
ssid Filter capture by ssid
Configure radio interfaces for the capture.
WC8180(config-capture-profile)#interface ?
a-radio 5.0 GHz radio interface only
all All radio interfaces
b-radio 2.4 GHz radio interface only
Configure the IP address of the observer host PC.
WC8180(config-capture-profile)#observer-ip ?
ipaddr IP address of Observer machine
ACLI reference for Wireless LAN (WLAN) 8100
20 Avaya WLAN 8100 CLI Reference August 2013
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