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Cisco Prime Infrastructure can work with Telnet or SSHv2. If you are able to Telnet/SSH into the device, Cisco 

Prime Infrastructure should be able to do the same. If you have to enter another password to enable this, be sure 
to enter that in the device credentials. More on how to edit credentials is discussed in the section “Fixing Credential 
Errors.” 

From the WLC web GUI, navigate to Management > Telnet-SSH to open the Telnet-SSH Configuration page. 

Allow either the Telnet or SSH sessions. 

The HTTP protocol is mainly used for a selected few devices as mentioned in the protocol matrix above. HTTP is 

used by NAM for Representational State Transfer (REST) API calls, as well as for enabling/disabling Mediatrace 

on medianet-capable devices. For medianet-capable devices, the HTTP user must have a privilege level of 15. 

There are some task

s that are wireless centered, and do not apply to the wired infrastructure. Let’s take a look at 

those in this section. This document assumes that your wireless infrastructure is up and running. If you need to 

deploy the wireless network, please refer to the NCS 1.1 Deployment Guide at 

. 

The map export/import feature is available in WCS 7.0. This feature is detailed in the WCS 7.0 Configuration 

Guide, which is available at 

After you export maps from your WCS server, you can import this set of maps in your NCS server. The next step 

on how to import your maps is covered in the WCS 7.0 Configuration Guide. 

 TIP: It is important that APs from your WCS server be added to your Cisco Prime Infrastructure server prior to 

importing maps, because APs on your WCS maps are also included during the export process. APs that have not 

been added to your Cisco Prime Infrastructure system, but are present on exported floor maps, result in errors that 

are displayed when you import those maps into Cisco Prime Infrastructure. 

Discovering Your Network 

Cisco Prime Infrastructure uses and enhances the discovery mechanisms that were used in Cisco Prime LMS 4.x. 

Protocols like ping, SNMP (v1, v2c, and v3), Cisco Discovery Protocol, Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP), 

Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) are used to discover 

the network. This section will focus on how best to configure the discovery profile once and to automate the 

discovery going forward.