First Published: August 8, 2018

Introduction

This release notes document describes features, enhancements, and caveats for the Cisco Aironet 1800s Active Sensor using the Cisco Wireless Release 8.7.258.0 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 8.7.258.0

This release is to address the caveats listed in the Resolved Caveats and Open Caveats sections.

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. Severity 3 caveats are moderately serious and only select severity 3 caveats are listed here.

The Resolved CaveatsResolved Caveats and Open CaveatsOpen Caveats sections list the caveats in the Cisco Wireless Release 8.7.258.08.8.258.0. 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.

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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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Open Caveats

This section lists the open caveats in Cisco Wireless Release 8.7.258.0. 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.

Table 1. Cisco Aironet Network Sensor: Open Caveats in Cisco Wireless Release 8.7.258.0

Caveat Identifier

Caveat Description

CSCvk44563

Backtrace during image upgrade on Cisco Aironet 1800s sensor.

CSCvk00240

Cisco Aironet 1800s sensor with 8.7 image freezes after few days.

Resolved Caveats

This section lists the caveats that have been resolved in Cisco Wireless Release 8.7.258.0.

Table 2. Cisco Aironet Network Sensor: Resolved Caveats in Cisco Wireless Release 8.7.258.0

Caveat ID Number

Description

CSCvh79809

Sensor: Poor onboarding connectivity with Cisco Aironet 1800S compared to Cisco Aironet 3800 series APs.

CSCvh83925

Webauth configuration is supported at testconfig level, rather than SSID level

CSCvh84101

ICMP reachability should not be performed by sensor tests other than host reachablity

CSCvh93306

Sensor: Stuck at test index 0. Will restart WSA.

CSCvh95846

Enabling watch-dog and crashdump infrastructure for WSA process

CSCvi27295

DNS: queryResponseTimeMillis is always zero.

CSCvi33105

ODU sensor issue: WSA process disappears after editing, deleting, or creating tests.

CSCvi42929

Sensor: Webauth test fails in Cisco Aironet 1800 series sensor as EOF occurs in violation of protocol.

CSCvj27125

Sensor: Work list does not get limited when multiple SSIDs are selected.

CSCvj45550

Cisco Aironet 1800S is appearing again in the unclaimed list after PNP provision

CSCvj73671

Sensor stats don't show cumulative data in Cisco Aironet 1800S and also refreshes the token.

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