Technical Note: FortiAP Radio-Specific parameters via FortiGate CLI commands

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Description

This article explains how parameters for each radio device on the FortiAP device can be listed via FortiGate CLI commands.

Scope

Output captured from FortiGate 60D running 5.4.2 GA and FortiAP 221C running 5.4.2 GA

Solution

The following FortiGate CLI command can be used for listing the parameters for the first radio (2.4 GHz radio) on a FortiAP:

diagnose wireless-controller wlac -c radio-idx <FortiAP-Serial-Number>

The following FortiGate CLI command can be used for listing the parameters for the second radio (5 GHz radio) on a FortiAP:

diagnose wireless-controller wlac -c radio-idx <FortiAP-Serial-Number> 0

Examples

FGT# diag wireless-controller wlac -c radio-idx FP221C3X14xxxxxx

-------------------------------RADIO_IDX    1----------------------------
  Radio 1            : AP
    wtp id           : FP221C3X14xxxxxx
    country name     : US
    country code     : 841
    radio_type       : 11N
    channel list     : 1 6 10 11
    darrp            : disabled
    txpower          : 100% (calc 18 oper 18 max 18 dBm)
    beacon_intv      : 100
    rts_threshold    : 2346
    frag_threshold   : 2346
    ap scan          : disable
    ap scan passive  : disabled
    sta scan         : disabled
    WIDS profile     : ---
      wlan  0        : Test-SSID
    max vaps         : 8
    base bssid       : 08:5b:0e:7d:77:6f
    oper chan        : 6
    station info     : 0/0
-------------------------------Total    1 RADIO_IDXs----------------------------

FGT # diag wireless-controller wlac -c radio-idx FP221C3X14xxxxxx 0

-------------------------------RADIO_IDX    1----------------------------
  Radio 2            : AP
    wtp id           : FP221C3X14xxxxxx
    country name     : US
    country code     : 841
    radio_type       : 11AC
    channel list     : 36 44 149 157 165
    darrp            : disabled
    txpower          : 100% (calc 18 oper 18 max 18 dBm)
    beacon_intv      : 100
    rts_threshold    : 2346
    frag_threshold   : 2346
    ap scan          : disable
    ap scan passive  : disabled
    sta scan         : disabled
    WIDS profile     : ---
      wlan  0        : Test-SSID
    max vaps         : 8
    base bssid       : 08:5b:0e:7d:77:77
    oper chan        : 140
    station info     : 0/0
-------------------------------Total    1 RADIO_IDXs----------------------------