Hi there,
I’m new to the CapsMan setup. Firstly I strugled to get a youtube video info on setting CAPsMAN up using the latest Winbox on WiFi 6 equipment as the CAPsMAN menu moved.
Router - RB5009UPr+S+
Indoor Wifi - cAP ax Dual Band - cAPGi-5HaxD2HaxD
Outdoor Wifi - NetMetal ax - L23UGSR-5HaxD2HaxD-NM
I’m using the latest Winbox and all units are upgraded to OS 7.17.2
I found this video from MikroTik “CAPsMAN evolved - central AP management for WiFi6” and setup everything accordingly using the cAP ax first to test the CAPsMAN as the router does not have built in wifi. Once I sorted the CAPsMAN out to work on the cAP ax, I will then setup CAPsMAN on my Router to remotely change everything on my wifi units: https://youtu.be/37aff6d14Xk?si=48JSMSq1q6ON52-f
When CAPsMAN is not activated I see my WiFi and can connect and everything works 100%, as soon as I activate CAPsMAN on the devices, I no longer see the WiFi and my phone automatically disconnect as the WiFi is gone.
Where did I miss something. What I would like to achive is to have 1 SSID for all my WiFi units and for both 2G and 5G network and CAPsMAN sort out the best signal connection at the place where I am.
Are we looking at the cAP AX screenshots? Because CAPsMAN can’t manage its own interfaces:
CAPsMAN cannot manage it’s own wifi interfaces using configuration.manager=capsman, it is enough to just set the same configuration profile on local interfaces manually as you would with provisioning rules, and the end result will be the same as if they were CAPs. That being said, it is also possible to provision local interfaces via /interface/wifi/radio menu, it should be noted that to regain control of local interfaces after provisioning, you will need to disable the matching provisioning rules and press “provision” again, which will return local interfaces to an unconfigured state.
No need to install additional packages on the RB5009, CAPsMAN is available.
Hi yes the screenshots are from the cAP AX. as mentioned I first just wanted to test if the capsman work by joining the 2.4 & 5GHz using a single SSID.
The reason the TX Max power, etc are 0 is because I left everything as "default" settings. I'm not to advanced adjusting all those settings.
Setting tx-power to 0 is not default, you need to remove it, and you should set CAPsMAN address to 127.0.0.1, the reply by erlinden is correct regarding CAPsMAN managing it’s local interfaces. Aside from that, check what frequency is selected by CAPs, it might be that upper frequency is selected on 5GHz interface that your wireless client might not support, sometimes that’s the case if SSID cannot be seen.
Thanx I see, I by mistake clicked the TX MAX then it add the 0, I have deleted it.
If you look at my first post in the bottom left corner I have set the CAPsMAN Address to 127.0.0.1
I have also expanded the 5GHz range to the default value 2300-7300 but still I do not see the WiFi SSID on any of my devices or laptops. When I disable CAPsMAN I see the SSID
Ok I have made some changes:
1.>> Setup my router (RB5009UPr+S+) to handle the CAPsMAN setting
2.>> Setup the cAP AX to retrieve the CAPsMAN settings from the router
Somewhere I'm making a mistake using the Winbox user interface to setup CAPsMAN as the cAP AX is receiving some CAPsMAN config but not everything. Below are the scripts for the router and cAP AX
manager=capsman needs to removed from configuration you are passing via CAPsMAN to CAP, and you need to two separate provisioning rules, it would be best to add one rule for each, using supported-bands as a matcher.
Thank you, I was setting the provision but as you mentioned no “master” was selected (I did not know that this was required - BIG mistake!!). I selected the master and now everythig is working.
