Release Notes for Cisco Aironet 1800s Active Sensor, Cisco Wireless Release 8.8.258.0

Introduction

This release notes document describes features, enhancements, and caveats for the Cisco Aironet 1800s Active Sensor using the Cisco Wireless Release 8.8.258.0 8.8.259.0 . These release notes are updated as needed to provide information about new features, caveats, potential software deferrals, and related documents.

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Overview of Cisco Aironet 1800s Active Sensor

The Cisco Aironet 1800s Active Sensor is a part of Cisco's Wireless Service Assurance solution. The Wireless Service Assurance platform has three components, namely, Wireless Performance Analytics, Real-time Client Troubleshooting, and Proactive Health Assessment.

The Cisco Aironet 1800s Active Sensor is referred to as the Network Sensor, or sensor in this document.

The Cisco Aironet 1800s Active Sensor is an 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac (Wave 2) sensor, with internal antennas and an Ethernet backhaul. The sensor can be mounted, in a vertical orientation, on a wall or a desk and supports 2x2:2 SS MU-MIMO applications. The sensor is capable of joining an infrastructure access point as a client. The sensor can be used to monitor, measure, and troubleshoot overall wireless network performance.

What's New in Cisco Wireless Release 8.8.258.0

The following section provides a brief introduction to the new features and enhancements that are introduced in this release:

- Cisco DNA Center Speed Test for Sensors

- Cisco IP SLA for Sensors

Cisco DNA Center Speed Test for Sensors

The speed test allows the Cisco Aironet 1800s Active Sensor to directly measure the network speed between a wireless client and the server to identify performance problems and configuration issues. The sensor must have internet access (through a proxy server if the sensor is behind a firewall) to run the speed test. This test is conducted using Cisco DNA Center where you need to specify details of the speed test server the client is connecting to and the proxy server.

Cisco IP SLA for Sensors

The Cisco IP Service Level Agreement (SLA) feature enables the use of the Cisco Aironet 1800s Active Sensor as clients to proactively monitor the wireless network and manage network performance. This test is conducted using Cisco DNA Center where you need to specify the test name, location from the site hierarchy, and interval before scheduling the tests.

Caveats

Caveats describe unexpected behavior in the Cisco Wireless Network Sensor software. Severity 1 caveats are the most serious while Severity 2 caveats are less serious.

The Resolved Caveats and Open Caveats sections list the caveats in the Cisco Wireless Release 8.8.258.0. The following information is provided for each caveat:

- Identifier—Each caveat is assigned a unique identifier (ID) with a pattern of CSCxxNNNNN, where x is any letter (a-z) and N is any number (0-9). These IDs are frequently referenced in Cisco documentation, such as Security Advisories, Field Notices and other Cisco support documents. Technical Assistance Center (TAC) engineers or other Cisco staff can also provide you with the ID for a specific caveat.

- Description—A description of what is observed when the caveat occurs.

- Cisco Bug Search Tool

- Open Caveats

- Resolved Caveats

Cisco Bug Search Tool

The Cisco Bug Search Tool (BST), which is the online successor to the Bug Toolkit, is designed to improve the effectiveness in network risk management and device troubleshooting. The BST allows partners and customers to search for software bugs based on product, release, and keyword, and aggregates key data, such as bug details, product, and version. The tool has a provision to filter bugs based on credentials to provide external and internal bug views for the search input.

For more information about how to use the Cisco Bug Search Tool effectively, including how to set email alerts for bugs, filter bugs, and save bugs and searches, see the Bug Search Tool Help & FAQ page.

You can access the listed bugs through the BST. This web-based tool provides you access to the Cisco bug tracking system, which maintains information about bugs and vulnerabilities in the Cisco Wireless Network Sensor software and other Cisco hardware and software products.

Click the Caveat Identifier number in the table. The corresponding BST page is displayed with details of the bug.

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- The defect number does not exist

- The defect does not have a customer-visible description yet

- The defect has been marked Cisco Confidential

Open Caveats

This section lists the open caveats in Cisco Wireless Release 8.8.258.0. These caveats apply to the current release and may apply to previous releases. A caveat that is open for a prior release and is still unresolved applies to all future releases until it is resolved.

Cisco Aironet Network Sensor: Open Caveats in Cisco Wireless Release 8.8.258.0

Caveat Identifier

Caveat Description

CSCvm55730

Inconsistent test results in the sensor dashboard

CSCvm75439

Cisco Aironet 1800s may reboot to OOM on running all tests

CSCvm79133

Sensor does not recover from HEARTBEAT FAILURE after upgrade from 1.2.4 to 1.2.5

CSCvn04116

IOS AP needs to be avoided for running IPSLA tests

CSCvn12673

Sensor "test results" for all tests has missing test results

CSCvn14831

Cisco DNA Center 1.2.6: Sensor EAP-FAST test reports slow-onboarding

Resolved Caveats

This section lists the caveats that have been resolved in Cisco Wireless Release 8.8.258.0.

Cisco Aironet Network Sensor: Resolved Caveats in Cisco Wireless Release 8.8.258.0

Caveat Identifier

Caveat Description

CSCvh95813

Sensor: wired and wireless interface have ip address at the same time

CSCvm01614

Sensor: Wireless backhaul is broken in 8.8 code

CSCvm01723

Sensor: Sensor functionality broken when Domain name used for DNA

CSCvm12556

Sensor Webauth Test Failure: Logout logic needs addressing unexpected error during webauth

CSCvm19856

Sensor Performance: IPSLA test latency is much higher than speed test latency

CSCvm43401

Sensor: Tests on 8.8.256.4 stops after 2-3 iterations with NBUF alloc failed

CSCvm49352

Exceptions during WSA tests

CSCvm50489

DNAC 1.2.5: Speed test results are failing for 1800S

CSCvm59149

AP1800-S sensor crashes on OOM when image upgrade initiated through SWIM

CSCvm66802

AP1800S: Wireless sensor is not even trying to connect to the test SSID created from DNAC

CSCvm75461

Sensor: Sensor functionality stopped on 1800S but did not reboot

CSCvm75593

AIR-AP1800S-B-K9 sensor stopped sending heartbeat to DNAC and goes to unreachable state

CSCvm77389

1800S: Continuous OOM when speed test is running

CSCvm81391

Sensor: EAPTLS onboarding failure due to inability to download the certificate

CSCvm85165

Sensor 8.8: Disable SSH by default

Service and Support

For all support-related information, see http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/index.html.

- Related Documentation

- Communications, Services, and Additional Information

Related Documentation

- Cisco Aironet 1800s Active Sensor Getting Started Guide

- Cisco Aironet Sensor Deployment Guide

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