(Cisco Controller) >show rfid config
RFID Tag data Collection......................... Enabled
RFID timeout.................................... 1200 seconds
RFID mobility.................................... Oui:00:14:7e : Vendor:pango State:Disabled
Your controller tracks tags (the Aeroscout tags), but not Pango tags. You can enable Pango tags tracking with the command:
config rfid mobility pango enable
If you do not enable this specific tracking, Pango RFID tags may be seen, but only if they associate to the wireless infrastructure (because then they will probe like normal clients, and will appear as blue "wireless clients" icons instead of yellow "tags"). You have to configure them to associate to the infrastructure...
RFID tracking might be disabled on the controller... with the command:
config rfid status disable
In that case, RFID tracking might be enabled on the Location Appliance and WCS, but no tag location will be reported...
Last funny trick... you probably know that RFID tags send a message at configurable intervals, on configurable channels (you need to configure them to decide which channel(s), which interval, at which power level and which speed (usually 1 or 2 Mbps) they will send). So how long after your RFID tag sent its last message should your controller decide that the RFID tag is gone/dead and stop reporting it to the Location Appliance? You can decide of this timeout with the command:
config rfid timeout
A good value for this parameter is... between 3 and 8 times the emission interval. So if your tag is configured to send its signal every 5 minutes, a good value is between 15 and 40 minutes.
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