WING5 CLI Tip: Running config at-a-glance

Often you have to deal with existing AP/Controller and need to understand what's configured on it. Of course, you can click 100500 times in the GUI all over the place, or read through 20+ pages of "show run" output (those who've been to my WING5 training should remember the little space-bar-thrashing exercise). For instance, the...

WING5 Q&A: Controller with local APs and remote APs. Which MiNT link levels to use?

This is a very popular question that is asked at literally every WING5 training (and, I must admit, due to misinterpretation I was giving out the wrong answer, so read this). Getting those link levels is easy, troubleshooting the resulting system instability issues is not easy. We typically know that single-site scenarios use Level 1...

What is nSight?

One of the three key highlight of WiNG 5.8 release is nSight - a new WLAN monitoring, visualization and troubleshooting support solution. I am currently demonstrating nSight as part on our WLN2018 next-gen WING5 class, and students seem to like it a lot. This post briefly outlines the key high-level ideas behind nSight. I'm planning...

WiNG 5.7 Release Summary

WiNG 5.7 is finally out and available on Support portal. Here's a brief summary of main features and comments about them. New product support. Because of the timing overlap some of the products released around 5.6 release were not actually supported by 5.6.x and were supported by special 5.5.x instead. Now everything is back to...

ShellShock and Motorola WLAN Equipment

A tech support article has been published on Motorola's support portal regarding ShellShock vulnerability. A brief note: APxxxx, RFSxxxx, WSxxxx, CBxxxx (existing and legacy) - NOT vulnerable, as they don't have bash at all. NXxxxx and VXxxxx - KIND OF. They have unpatched bash, but it's not exposed through any APIs/UIs unless you already somehow...

The new WING5 SWIFT (Express) GUI – Impressions

So, the recent press release from Motorola announced a new 'flavour' of WING5 UI for those, who found the standard UI too complicated (some hardware modifications were also announced, but only for some regions, so I won't talk about it).  I decided to give it a try, and loaded WiNG 5.5.3 on my AP6522. Here...

[WLAN] Motorola Solutions simplifies WING5 Licensing: free stuff

Is was around for a while, but now it's official. Motorola (Solutions) simplifies licensing for it's WING5 WLAN Platform. The following features are now free: Analytics This is the client analytics (mainly for Retail and hospitality industry) so many were talking about. Allows offering guest access services to customers to understand user behavior by gathering...

Running a WLAN controller in VMWare Player

Motorola WiNG5.6 firmware images were finally posted last week, and along them, the VX9000 cloud controller DEMO image. I am very excited about it, as it allows me to run a VM version of Motorola's top controller (or cluster, or hierarchy for that sake) right on my laptop! No need to say about potential for...