Enabling Cisco SE-Connect With the GUI

There are plenty of guides out there that explain how to put a Cisco AP in SE-Connect mode via SSH, but what about the GUI?

Pre-Requisites

For this guide, you’ll need to first convert your Cisco AP to autonomous mode. To convert my AP, I used an excellent guide by Rasika Nayanajith.

Guide

1. Log into the Cisco AP. If you haven’t changed the password, the username is cisco, and the password is Cisco.

2. On the `Home page, click the 2.4 GHz link next to Radio0-802.11N.

1. Click on the Settings tab.

1. At Enable Radio, select Enable. At Role in Radio Network, select Spectrum, and click Apply at the bottom.

1. Go back to the Home screen, and do the same process for the 5 GHz radio (enabling it, setting the role to Spectrum, and applying the settings).

2. Click on the Spectrum Information link.

3. After a moment, the NSI Key field will populate.

That’s it! Now you can grab the NSI key and IP address, and take it to either Chanalyzer + Cisco CleanAir or Cisco Spectrum Expert to perform remote spectrum analysis.