Location Services

Hi,

i have been looking and it is not documented anywhere.
Do we really have to contact  Tech Support for every AP we want to configure or are these commands published somewhere?

from Aruba-Instant-8.11.0.0-User-Guide:

For APs lacking the capability to automatically generate location information, their location can be
manually configured. However, the static location information can be configured on the AP only using
the CLI. Please contact Aruba Technical Support to configure the location information on your AP for
LCI broadcast.

This being a very new feature, I think the doc team hasn't gotten around to adding it to the CLI bank yet. I'm not directly in the loop, but I expect that you would only need to contact TAC the first time, and they can fill the role of that documentation to show you how to configure this until the external documentation can be written. The basic data format follows the same spec for sending location information to a client via DHCP as defined in RFC6225. I would share the specific commands here, but the info I was able to find is not currently cleared for public release... If that changes, I'll update here. I've also let the doc team know that the CLI bank lacks this info, so hopefully they can add it. 

As a location services nerd, I'm very interested in this capability in 8.x, and excited to see it finally happen. Now we just need to get client device support, which so far seems to be on some newer Android devices and Intel chipset drivers. 

Looking forward to playing with this in my lab, and would love to hear about your use case. 

Hi,

i have been looking and it is not documented anywhere.
Do we really have to contact  Tech Support for every AP we want to configure or are these commands published somewhere?

from Aruba-Instant-8.11.0.0-User-Guide:

For APs lacking the capability to automatically generate location information, their location can be
manually configured. However, the static location information can be configured on the AP only using
the CLI. Please contact Aruba Technical Support to configure the location information on your AP for
LCI broadcast.

Hi  canerdian

well, similar to you, i am also big Location services nerd. I see huge potential, but i don't think that i would find something completely new that Aruba hasn't seen yet..
But one thing would be for example position of handheld Zebra device with UXI agent when it encounters problems. So you can pinpoint where problem happened when it happened.

I will play around with 635 in our lab, but i wanted to see if i can simulate this to our customer's install base who are on series 5xx. And i don't think devices are such problem as oldest models who supported this are already more than 3 years old (samsung s20 etc)..

This being a very new feature, I think the doc team hasn't gotten around to adding it to the CLI bank yet. I'm not directly in the loop, but I expect that you would only need to contact TAC the first time, and they can fill the role of that documentation to show you how to configure this until the external documentation can be written. The basic data format follows the same spec for sending location information to a client via DHCP as defined in RFC6225. I would share the specific commands here, but the info I was able to find is not currently cleared for public release... If that changes, I'll update here. I've also let the doc team know that the CLI bank lacks this info, so hopefully they can add it. 

As a location services nerd, I'm very interested in this capability in 8.x, and excited to see it finally happen. Now we just need to get client device support, which so far seems to be on some newer Android devices and Intel chipset drivers. 

Looking forward to playing with this in my lab, and would love to hear about your use case. 

Hi,

i have been looking and it is not documented anywhere.
Do we really have to contact  Tech Support for every AP we want to configure or are these commands published somewhere?

from Aruba-Instant-8.11.0.0-User-Guide:

For APs lacking the capability to automatically generate location information, their location can be
manually configured. However, the static location information can be configured on the AP only using
the CLI. Please contact Aruba Technical Support to configure the location information on your AP for
LCI broadcast.

Hi,

i have been looking and it is not documented anywhere.
Do we really have to contact  Tech Support for every AP we want to configure or are these commands published somewhere?

from Aruba-Instant-8.11.0.0-User-Guide:

For APs lacking the capability to automatically generate location information, their location can be
manually configured. However, the static location information can be configured on the AP only using
the CLI. Please contact Aruba Technical Support to configure the location information on your AP for
LCI broadcast.

I got information from TAC how to calculate and manually setup LCI coordinates for 5xxx series. I don't know if it can be shared here.
But basically calculation of location can be done like it is explained here: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thomson-geopriv-3825bis-03.html 

Once you have those values calculated, you feed that to AP, enable LCI advertisement and voila, you're up and running. 

I am going to test this next week to see how it works. I will also connect to 635 and compare results.

Hi,

i have been looking and it is not documented anywhere.
Do we really have to contact  Tech Support for every AP we want to configure or are these commands published somewhere?

from Aruba-Instant-8.11.0.0-User-Guide:

For APs lacking the capability to automatically generate location information, their location can be
manually configured. However, the static location information can be configured on the AP only using
the CLI. Please contact Aruba Technical Support to configure the location information on your AP for
LCI broadcast.

I got information from TAC how to calculate and manually setup LCI coordinates for 5xxx series. I don't know if it can be shared here.
But basically calculation of location can be done like it is explained here: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thomson-geopriv-3825bis-03.html 

Once you have those values calculated, you feed that to AP, enable LCI advertisement and voila, you're up and running. 

I am going to test this next week to see how it works. I will also connect to 635 and compare results.

Hi,

i have been looking and it is not documented anywhere.
Do we really have to contact  Tech Support for every AP we want to configure or are these commands published somewhere?

from Aruba-Instant-8.11.0.0-User-Guide:

For APs lacking the capability to automatically generate location information, their location can be
manually configured. However, the static location information can be configured on the AP only using
the CLI. Please contact Aruba Technical Support to configure the location information on your AP for
LCI broadcast.

I also believe that the UXI agent for Zebra scanners explicitly supports this. 

I got information from TAC how to calculate and manually setup LCI coordinates for 5xxx series. I don't know if it can be shared here.
But basically calculation of location can be done like it is explained here: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thomson-geopriv-3825bis-03.html 

Once you have those values calculated, you feed that to AP, enable LCI advertisement and voila, you're up and running. 

I am going to test this next week to see how it works. I will also connect to 635 and compare results.

Hi,

i have been looking and it is not documented anywhere.
Do we really have to contact  Tech Support for every AP we want to configure or are these commands published somewhere?

from Aruba-Instant-8.11.0.0-User-Guide:

For APs lacking the capability to automatically generate location information, their location can be
manually configured. However, the static location information can be configured on the AP only using
the CLI. Please contact Aruba Technical Support to configure the location information on your AP for
LCI broadcast.

Do you maybe know how many AP's we need for this to work? Is there a number how many 6xx series?
i have 3x635 in my lab and some 5xxx.

Would for example 3x505 and 1x635 work and self-locate?

I also believe that the UXI agent for Zebra scanners explicitly supports this. 

I got information from TAC how to calculate and manually setup LCI coordinates for 5xxx series. I don't know if it can be shared here.
But basically calculation of location can be done like it is explained here: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thomson-geopriv-3825bis-03.html 

Once you have those values calculated, you feed that to AP, enable LCI advertisement and voila, you're up and running. 

I am going to test this next week to see how it works. I will also connect to 635 and compare results.

Hi,

i have been looking and it is not documented anywhere.
Do we really have to contact  Tech Support for every AP we want to configure or are these commands published somewhere?

from Aruba-Instant-8.11.0.0-User-Guide:

For APs lacking the capability to automatically generate location information, their location can be
manually configured. However, the static location information can be configured on the AP only using
the CLI. Please contact Aruba Technical Support to configure the location information on your AP for
LCI broadcast.

Hi, 

The APs alone will not self-locate. It will require the upcoming "Auto AP placement" feature in Aruba Central Next Generation.

Until its available you can use the WifiRttLocator App and the WifiRttScan App to play with FTM location. 
 

Regards,

Jens

Do you maybe know how many AP's we need for this to work? Is there a number how many 6xx series?
i have 3x635 in my lab and some 5xxx.

Would for example 3x505 and 1x635 work and self-locate?

I also believe that the UXI agent for Zebra scanners explicitly supports this. 

I got information from TAC how to calculate and manually setup LCI coordinates for 5xxx series. I don't know if it can be shared here.
But basically calculation of location can be done like it is explained here: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thomson-geopriv-3825bis-03.html 

Once you have those values calculated, you feed that to AP, enable LCI advertisement and voila, you're up and running. 

I am going to test this next week to see how it works. I will also connect to 635 and compare results.

Hi,

i have been looking and it is not documented anywhere.
Do we really have to contact  Tech Support for every AP we want to configure or are these commands published somewhere?

from Aruba-Instant-8.11.0.0-User-Guide:

For APs lacking the capability to automatically generate location information, their location can be
manually configured. However, the static location information can be configured on the AP only using
the CLI. Please contact Aruba Technical Support to configure the location information on your AP for
LCI broadcast.

Hi, 

The APs alone will not self-locate. It will require the upcoming "Auto AP placement" feature in Aruba Central Next Generation.

Until its available you can use the WifiRttLocator App and the WifiRttScan App to play with FTM location. 
 

Regards,

Jens

Do you maybe know how many AP's we need for this to work? Is there a number how many 6xx series?
i have 3x635 in my lab and some 5xxx.

Would for example 3x505 and 1x635 work and self-locate?

I also believe that the UXI agent for Zebra scanners explicitly supports this. 

I got information from TAC how to calculate and manually setup LCI coordinates for 5xxx series. I don't know if it can be shared here.
But basically calculation of location can be done like it is explained here: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thomson-geopriv-3825bis-03.html 

Once you have those values calculated, you feed that to AP, enable LCI advertisement and voila, you're up and running. 

I am going to test this next week to see how it works. I will also connect to 635 and compare results.

Hi,

i have been looking and it is not documented anywhere.
Do we really have to contact  Tech Support for every AP we want to configure or are these commands published somewhere?

from Aruba-Instant-8.11.0.0-User-Guide:

For APs lacking the capability to automatically generate location information, their location can be
manually configured. However, the static location information can be configured on the AP only using
the CLI. Please contact Aruba Technical Support to configure the location information on your AP for
LCI broadcast.

Hi, 

The APs alone will not self-locate. It will require the upcoming "Auto AP placement" feature in Aruba Central Next Generation.

Until its available you can use the WifiRttLocator App and the WifiRttScan App to play with FTM location. 
 

Regards,

Jens

Do you maybe know how many AP's we need for this to work? Is there a number how many 6xx series?
i have 3x635 in my lab and some 5xxx.

Would for example 3x505 and 1x635 work and self-locate?

I also believe that the UXI agent for Zebra scanners explicitly supports this. 

I got information from TAC how to calculate and manually setup LCI coordinates for 5xxx series. I don't know if it can be shared here.
But basically calculation of location can be done like it is explained here: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thomson-geopriv-3825bis-03.html 

Once you have those values calculated, you feed that to AP, enable LCI advertisement and voila, you're up and running. 

I am going to test this next week to see how it works. I will also connect to 635 and compare results.

Hi,

i have been looking and it is not documented anywhere.
Do we really have to contact  Tech Support for every AP we want to configure or are these commands published somewhere?

from Aruba-Instant-8.11.0.0-User-Guide:

For APs lacking the capability to automatically generate location information, their location can be
manually configured. However, the static location information can be configured on the AP only using
the CLI. Please contact Aruba Technical Support to configure the location information on your AP for
LCI broadcast.

Hi, 

is "Auto AP placement" now available in the new Aruba Central rollout?

Can we set up 

Hi, 

The APs alone will not self-locate. It will require the upcoming "Auto AP placement" feature in Aruba Central Next Generation.

Until its available you can use the WifiRttLocator App and the WifiRttScan App to play with FTM location. 
 

Regards,

Jens

Do you maybe know how many AP's we need for this to work? Is there a number how many 6xx series?
i have 3x635 in my lab and some 5xxx.

Would for example 3x505 and 1x635 work and self-locate?

I also believe that the UXI agent for Zebra scanners explicitly supports this. 

I got information from TAC how to calculate and manually setup LCI coordinates for 5xxx series. I don't know if it can be shared here.
But basically calculation of location can be done like it is explained here: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thomson-geopriv-3825bis-03.html 

Once you have those values calculated, you feed that to AP, enable LCI advertisement and voila, you're up and running. 

I am going to test this next week to see how it works. I will also connect to 635 and compare results.

Hi,

i have been looking and it is not documented anywhere.
Do we really have to contact  Tech Support for every AP we want to configure or are these commands published somewhere?

from Aruba-Instant-8.11.0.0-User-Guide:

For APs lacking the capability to automatically generate location information, their location can be
manually configured. However, the static location information can be configured on the AP only using
the CLI. Please contact Aruba Technical Support to configure the location information on your AP for
LCI broadcast.

Do you maybe know how many AP's we need for this to work? Is there a number how many 6xx series?
i have 3x635 in my lab and some 5xxx.

Would for example 3x505 and 1x635 work and self-locate?

I also believe that the UXI agent for Zebra scanners explicitly supports this. 

I got information from TAC how to calculate and manually setup LCI coordinates for 5xxx series. I don't know if it can be shared here.
But basically calculation of location can be done like it is explained here: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thomson-geopriv-3825bis-03.html 

Once you have those values calculated, you feed that to AP, enable LCI advertisement and voila, you're up and running. 

I am going to test this next week to see how it works. I will also connect to 635 and compare results.

Hi,

i have been looking and it is not documented anywhere.
Do we really have to contact  Tech Support for every AP we want to configure or are these commands published somewhere?

from Aruba-Instant-8.11.0.0-User-Guide:

For APs lacking the capability to automatically generate location information, their location can be
manually configured. However, the static location information can be configured on the AP only using
the CLI. Please contact Aruba Technical Support to configure the location information on your AP for
LCI broadcast.

I also believe that the UXI agent for Zebra scanners explicitly supports this. 

I got information from TAC how to calculate and manually setup LCI coordinates for 5xxx series. I don't know if it can be shared here.
But basically calculation of location can be done like it is explained here: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thomson-geopriv-3825bis-03.html 

Once you have those values calculated, you feed that to AP, enable LCI advertisement and voila, you're up and running. 

I am going to test this next week to see how it works. I will also connect to 635 and compare results.

Hi,

i have been looking and it is not documented anywhere.
Do we really have to contact  Tech Support for every AP we want to configure or are these commands published somewhere?

from Aruba-Instant-8.11.0.0-User-Guide:

For APs lacking the capability to automatically generate location information, their location can be
manually configured. However, the static location information can be configured on the AP only using
the CLI. Please contact Aruba Technical Support to configure the location information on your AP for
LCI broadcast.