Cisco Cisco Aironet 1522 Lightweight Outdoor Mesh Access Point Troubleshooting Guide

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Troubleshooting a Mesh Network
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LWAPP Join Failures
This section highlights conditions associated with receipt of Discovery Requests and the non-receipt of 
LWAPP Joins from the access point.
To monitor the messages being exchanged between APs and the controller, enter the following command 
and monitor (or capture) the information for at least 15 minutes.
(Cisco Controller) > debug lwapp events enable
The debug lwapp events enable text display provides information to help troubleshoot all of the 
possible join problems listed in 
.
If after monitoring the debug lwapp events enable text display for 15 minutes and, neither the NO 
DISCOVER RESPONSE nor the NO JOIN REQUEST event is seen, enter the following CLI 
commands on the controller, if you see the following display:
spamMeshRadiusProcessResponse: AP Authorization Failure for <mac>
Enter debug disable-all to turn off the debug lwapp events enable command.
Enter config wlan mac filtering enable wlan-id to enable the MAC filter on the WLAN.
Note
The MAC filter is enabled by default in release 4.1.181.0 and later.
Enter config macfilter add mac-addr wlan-id to add the access point’s MAC address to the 
WLAN’s MAC filter.
Table 5
LWAPP Join Failures
Possible cause
Solution/Debug steps
Incorrect regulatory domain is configured on 
the access point.
1) Enter show country on the controller to 
view country setting.
2) Enter show msglog to view country setting.
3) Check label on access point for assigned 
country code.
4) Configure correct country code.
A RAP has joined but MAPs have not.
1) Configure at least one access point in the 
mesh network as a RAP.
Note
Default setting for all access points is 
as a MAP.