Purpose:
This document aims to outline a way to extract client association data from a Cisco WLC so that it can be referenced later. My organization has a business requirement to track all wireless users. We use the techniques outlined in this document to take a "snap-shot" of our wireless clients associated with a Cisco WLC every 5 minutes and import that data into Splunk, where we can index and search through it any time we want.
This document will cover some basics needed to successfully extract connected client data from a Cisco WLC via SNMP. Although this feat has probably been done before, I was able to find little documentation on how to extract this specific data and use it for historical purposes. This document will provide MIB information to key OIDs of value, a bash scripting example, and lessons learned.
This document aims to outline a way to extract client association data from a Cisco WLC so that it can be referenced later. My organization has a business requirement to track all wireless users. We use the techniques outlined in this document to take a "snap-shot" of our wireless clients associated with a Cisco WLC every 5 minutes and import that data into Splunk, where we can index and search through it any time we want.
This document will cover some basics needed to successfully extract connected client data from a Cisco WLC via SNMP. Although this feat has probably been done before, I was able to find little documentation on how to extract this specific data and use it for historical purposes. This document will provide MIB information to key OIDs of value, a bash scripting example, and lessons learned.










