Describe the problem. Vloka finds the solution.
A Catalyst 9800 will tell you everything, once you know which of forty screens to open and what the answer means. Vloka puts your wireless on the floor plan, watches it, and turns "the wifi is bad in the east wing" into the access point, the client and the minute it started.
What Vloka is
Vloka is software with built-in intelligence that supports the wireless administrator in managing wireless data networks. It extends the Cisco Catalyst 9800 wireless controller and supports the access points in the Cisco Catalyst 9100 series.
Where the 9800 stops, Vloka carries on
- Yesterday. The controller shows now; Vloka remembers what moved, when it moved, and which way the numbers went.
- All your controllers. A 9800 knows itself; Vloka watches every one you registered, so an access point that joined another controller is a move.
- The access point itself. Where a client is switched or authenticated locally, Vloka reads the access point directly — that is where the answer is.
- Before you do it. Move an access point, add one, turn one down — Vloka works out what that does to the coverage of your own building first.
Built around the complaint
Nobody reports "the RSSI on AP-3F-12 dropped below −72". They say it was slow in the meeting room this morning. Vloka starts there, and turns it into the access point, the client and the minute.
The floor plan is the screen
Your own drawings, with the access points where they physically are. Distance rings from a measured model, roaming paths, and a client's walk through the building drawn on the plan rather than described in a table.
It looks, so you do not have to
Vloka switches its own diagnostics on and off — capture points, debug wireless mac, platform conditions — runs them, reads the result and cleans up after itself.
Log lines that say what they mean
Explanations come from a grounded library and the appliance's own diagnostics, not from a language model guessing at a mnemonic. A message Vloka does not know is recorded as unknown — locally, with no telemetry — instead of being explained anyway.
Everything stays in view
Whatever your licence says, Vloka keeps showing every access point — over the limit and after the expiry date. A monitoring screen that quietly shows 4 of 37 is the failure this product exists to avoid.
Read, and write with permission
Vloka is not read-only, and it does not pretend to be. It changes diagnostics itself. What it never touches without asking is configuration that carries traffic or outlives the session — WLANs, policies, interfaces, tags. Every such run is audited.
On your own kit, on your own Ubuntu
Installs onto an Ubuntu Server you already run — we ship Vloka, not an operating system. It reaches your controllers and nothing else: the licence check is the only thing that leaves your network, and it works offline indefinitely if it cannot.
Vloka & KIDJO·AI6
The assistant Vloka works with. You ask in your own words and get one answer, put together from every screen that held a piece of it — from what this appliance measured, on your own equipment.
Checked before you see it
Every MAC address, IP address, time, version and channel in an answer has to be found in something Vloka actually read; what cannot be found does not get through. Your questions, logs and client data stay under your supervision, within your own domain.
Practised in a lab, not on your network
A new SSID, a new VLAN, a controller to set up: the assistant prepares the change and tries it first on a controller an administrator marked as lab, on the same software version. What changed is counted, line by line, before and after. On your own controller it runs only after you saw the exact lines and agreed, and it is recorded in the audit log.
The full story of the assistant is on kidjo.nl.