Chapter 6

Prime Infrastructure and MSE/CMX

Management tools are becoming more and more important for installing and maintaining any type of network. Although you may get personal satisfaction from configuring SSIDs, RF parameters, and debugging logs through convoluted AP and WLC command lines, a proper management system can perform all those tasks faster, and at a large scale. On top of standard configuration tasks, management tools also have the advantage of centralizing data from different sources and providing common features to troubleshoot, alert, and log information from heterogeneous systems.

Listing every feature of the Cisco Prime Infrastructure management system would probably require a book of its own. Nevertheless, this chapter should ...

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