About a year ago, Cisco stopped offering a unlimited license for WCS.
Existing unlimited license were converted to a 2500 AP license.
Todd Lane
ITS Telecommunications/Networking
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Frank Bulk wrote:
I know we discussed WCS licensing on this listserv some time
ago....wasn't there a point where you bought enough AP licenses that it
was cheaper to purchase the unlimited license for WCS? And does that
give one the right to run WCS once, or many times?
Frank
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*From:* Paynter, Jeffrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
*Sent:* Friday, May 04, 2007 8:26 AM
*To:* WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
*Subject:* Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco WCS- sparing/clustering
We are in the process of installing WCS, WiSMs, & APs (Cisco 1131s &
1242s). We may have as many as 8 WiSMs & 2,100 APs. Won’t know until
the site surveys are complete. We are also implementing Cisco Clean
Access at the same time on the WLAN for security.
Currently we have 4 WiSMs (4.0.217.0) & about 200 APs installed. We
have WCS (4.0.87) running on a very robust VM server. Cisco does not
support WCS on VM at this time! WCS respond slowly in the VM
environment. The reason we went this way was for fault tolerance and
redundancy. We also have WCS (4.0.96) running on a standalone server as
a test and the performance is excellent! At some point Cisco has to
solve the VM issue because nobody will buy twice as many AP licenses to
run 2 WCS Servers. For now as long as you have a backup of WCS it is
very easy to install from scratch and restore!
The bottom line is the WiSMs & APs will work without WCS. You can still
manage the WiSMs & APs but would lose central monitoring of all WiSMs,
APs, Clients, & misc Security features such as rogue APs, signature
attacks, etc.
Jeff
Jeffrey M. Paynter
Communications Analyst Lead
University of Rochester Medical Center
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Office: 585.784.2405
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*From:* Lee H Badman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
*Sent:* Friday, May 04, 2007 8:18 AM
*To:* WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
*Subject:* [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco WCS- sparing/clustering
With a rapidly growing wireless environment, WCS is getting to be more
critical. Wondering what others may be doing to provide fault tolerance,
backup, and/or failover for WCS server.
Lee H. Badman
Wireless/Network Engineer
KC2IYK, CWNA/CWSP
Information Technology and Services
Syracuse University
315 443-3003
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