Capsman Provisioning Config for more AP's

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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I can select single AP’s in the Capsman Provisioning Config via Mac, Name or Identity,
but how can I select more than one AP per provisioning config line?
There should be triangles to expand the selection for each of the methods, so for bigger installations with a few different Profiles you will need hundreds of provising configs,
that doesn’t seem correct.

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You can choose the IP address ranges of the caps you want to be provisioned by typing the address range in the “IP address ranges” field…
For example if you want the CAPs 192.168.1.10-192.168.1.100 to be provisioned under a specific config then you fill the address range as above.
Also if you click the mac address field but you dont type a specific mac then all the CAPs will follow the same config under that provision rule.
In case you want to use the IP address range way, your CAPs must “see” your Capsman in Layer 3 and not Layer 2.

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thank you. Ok, currently the AP’s have very small configuration, mostly everything comes from capsman, so Ip is currently from dhcp-server.
Having a few provisioning configs, you could only have 1 config file for the “rest” of AP’s using the last config line.

But I still don’t understand why mikrotik didn’t add the possibility to add more mac Addresses, Names or Identities per Profile.

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You are not just able to match access points by mac address, supported hw modes, ip address ranges but also by routers identity (/system identity print). That means if you dont want to setup different dhcp ranges for multiple profiles you could rename the respective routers and chose them by their name.

See: https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:CAPsMAN#Radio_Provisioning

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I knew that, but because of your Post I tried selecting the AP’s by a Prefix and that surprisingly works.
So I can have 4 Ap’s called (BD1 Office, BD1 Reception, BD1 Staffroom, BD1 Entrance) and in the Provisioning Tab type BD1 in the Identity Tab, and those 4 AP’s will take that configuration.

In the Wiki it didn’t show that this works, I thought that the Identity has to be exactly the same.

Thank you again for helping me