Detecting access points located within proximity of a computing device for troubleshooting of a network

A method comprising:

• discovering, by a mobile application running on a mobile device that is operating within a physical environment, a subset of wireless access points (APs) of a plurality of managed APs of a private network that are proximate to the mobile device by receiving short-range beacons originated by the subset of APs, wherein each of the short-range beacons contain information identifying a respective AP of the subset of APs;
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• bridging, by the mobile application, the physical environment and a network environment containing information regarding the private network by for each AP of the subset of APs, using the identifying information for the AP to request configuration information or operating information for the AP from a wireless local area network (WLAN) controller that manages the plurality of managed APs.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium embodying a set of instructions, which when executed by a processing resource of a mobile device operating within a physical environment, causes the processing resource to:

• discover a subset of wireless access points (APs) of a plurality of managed APs of a private network that are proximate to the mobile device by receiving short-range beacons originated by the subset of APs, wherein each of the short-range beacons contain information identifying a respective AP of the subset of APs;
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• bridge the physical environment and a network environment containing information regarding the private network by for each AP of the subset of APs, using the identifying information for the AP to request configuration information or operating information for the AP from a wireless local area network (WLAN) controller that manages the plurality of managed APs.