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Adding Indoor Mesh Access Points to Cisco Prime Infrastructure

To view details for a Google Earth Map folder, follow these steps:
Step 5 From the Google Earth Map page, click the folder name to open the details page for this folder. The Google Earth Details
page provides the mesh access point names and MAC or IP addresses.
Note To delete a mesh access point, select the applicable check box and click Delete.?To delete the entire folder,
select the check box next to Folder Name and click Delete. Deleting a folder also deletes all subfolders and
mesh access points inside the folder.
Step 6 Click Cancel to close the details page.
Adding Indoor Mesh Access Points to Cisco Prime Infrastructure
You have a choice of ordering indoor access points directly into the bridge mode, so that these access points can be used
directly as mesh access points. If you have these access points in a local mode (nonmesh), then you have to connect these
access points to the controller and change the radio role to the bridge mode (mesh). This task can become cumbersome
particularly if the volume of the access points being deployed is large and if the access points are already deployed in
the local mode for a traditional nonmesh wireless coverage.
For local mode indoor access points prior to a mesh installation, you must first connect all indoor mesh access points to
the controller and change the mode to bridge mode.
To do so, connect all the indoor access points to the Layer 3 network on the same subnet as the Management IP address.
Add the MAC address of the indoor mesh access points into the MAC filter list on the controller. All indoor access points
will then join the controller in local mode.
You can then change local mode to bridge mode in the controller for every indoor access point.
Figure 97: All APs > AP Details Controller Page
After changing the indoor access points to bridge mode on the controller, add these indoor mesh access points into the
Prime Infrastructure.
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