Lightweight AP provision issue - AP name invalid

Hi all,

I've got an AP that i'm trying to point to my WLC using flexconnect. Not sure why but it keeps rejecting the AP name, therefore I'm unable to statically assign an IP to point to the WLC.

The AP is booting into Cisco Controller mode and expects the following syntax:

config ap primary-base <Switch Name> <Cisco AP> <Switch IP Addr>

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I configure the following:

(Cisco Controller) >config ap primary-base WLC1-5520 AP123 10.122.202.1

Cisco AP name is invalid.

The AP name is EAP123, as per the below config

(Cisco Controller) >show sysinfo

Manufacturer's Name.............................. Cisco Systems Inc.

Product Name..................................... Cisco Controller

Build Info....................................... Engineering Special

Product Version.................................. 8.5.140.0

System Name...................................... EAP123

System Location..................................

System Contact...................................

System ObjectID.................................. 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.1.2370

IP Address....................................... 10.122.108.115

Last Reset....................................... 1: reload command

System Up Time................................... 0 days 0 hrs 1 mins 40 secs

System Timezone Location.........................

System Stats Realtime Interval................... 5

System Stats Normal Interval..................... 180

Configured Country............................... GB - United Kingdom

State of 802.11b Network......................... Enabled

State of 802.11a Network......................... Enabled

Number of WLANs.................................. 1

--More-- or (q)uit

Number of Active Clients......................... 0

OUI Classification Failure Count................. 0

Memory Current Usage............................. 64

Memory Average Usage............................. 64

CPU Current Usage................................ 4

CPU Average Usage................................ 12

Flash Type....................................... Compact Flash Card

Flash Size....................................... 1073741824

Burned-in MAC Address............................ removed for reddit

Maximum number of APs supported.................. 100

System Nas-Id....................................

WLC MIC Certificate Types........................ SHA1/SHA2

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The AP is an AIR-2802I-Z-K9. Admittedly, this is the first time i've had to provision one of these in lieu of a AIR-2802I-E-K9. P.S cannot use CAPWAP dns or connect locally to controller. Usually this is much simpler and the syntax appears different from what I am expecting, I am assuming the software image is completely different, perhaps a capwap provisioning image?

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I also tried the following:

(Cisco Controller) >config ap unifiedmode WLC1-5520 10.122.202.1

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Warning! Sending config unifiedmode to all APs will cause the WLC to be rebooted.

Are you sure you want to continue? (y/n) y

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Cisco AP/SWITCH name is invalid.