CAPsMAN

CAPsMAN — Centralized AP Management

CAPsMAN (Controlled Access Point system Manager) allows a MikroTik router to centrally manage multiple access points.

Enable CAPsMAN Manager

On the controller router:

/caps-man manager set enabled=yes

Create a Channel

/caps-man channel
add name=channel-2ghz frequency=2412 band=2ghz-b/g/n tx-power=17 width=20mhz
add name=channel-5ghz frequency=5180 band=5ghz-a/n/ac tx-power=23 width=40mhz

Create Security Profile

/caps-man security
add name=security-wpa2 \
    authentication-types=wpa2-psk \
    encryption=aes-ccm \
    passphrase="YourWiFiPassword"

Create Datapath

/caps-man datapath
add name=datapath-local \
    bridge=bridge-local \
    client-to-client-forwarding=yes

Create Configuration

/caps-man configuration
add name=config-2ghz \
    ssid="YourNetwork" \
    channel=channel-2ghz \
    security=security-wpa2 \
    datapath=datapath-local \
    multicast-helper=full

add name=config-5ghz \
    ssid="YourNetwork-5G" \
    channel=channel-5ghz \
    security=security-wpa2 \
    datapath=datapath-local

Provisioning Rules

/caps-man provisioning
add action=create-dynamic-enabled \
    master-configuration=config-2ghz \
    slave-configurations=config-5ghz

On the Access Point (CAP)

/interface wireless cap
set enabled=yes caps-man-addresses=192.168.1.1 interfaces=wlan1,wlan2

Verify

/caps-man remote-cap print
/caps-man interface print