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Cisco IOS Software Configuration Guide for Cisco Aironet Access Points
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Preface
Audience
This guide is for the networking professional who installs and manages Cisco Aironet Access Points. To
use this guide, you should have experience working with the Cisco IOS software and be familiar with
the concepts and terminology of wireless local area networks.
Purpose
This guide provides the information you need to install and configure your access point. This guide
provides procedures for using the Cisco IOS software commands that have been created or changed for
use with the access point. It does not provide detailed information about these commands. For detailed
information about these commands, refer to the Cisco IOS Command Reference for Cisco Aironet Access
Points and Bridges for this release. For information about the standard Cisco IOS software commands,
refer to the Cisco IOS software documentation set available from the Cisco.com home page at Service
and Support > Technical Documents. On the Cisco Product Documentation home page, select Release
12.2 from the Cisco IOS Software drop-down list.
This guide also includes an overview of the access point web-based interface (APWI), which contains
all the funtionality of the command-line interface (CLI). This guide does not provide field-level
descriptions of the APWI windows nor does it provide the procedures for configuring the access point
from from the APWI. For all APWI window descriptions and procedures, refer to the access point online
help, which is available from the Help buttons on the APWI pages.
Organization
This guide is organized into these chapters:
Chapter 1, “Overview,” lists the software and hardware features of the access point and describes the
access point’s role in your network.
Chapter 2, “Configuring the Access Point for the First Time,” describes how to configure basic settings
on a new access point.
Chapter 3, “Using the Web-Browser Interface,” describes how to use the web-browser interface to
configure the access point.
Chapter 4, “Using the Command-Line Interface,” describes how to use the command-line interface
(CLI) to configure the access point.