Thanks, Hector (and Jeff and others). That "restart the AP" thing is a prime beef of mine... means a routine change can only be done during an outage window, and is one more example of the disparity between the WCS UI and the Controller function.
We do have several WLANs that go to different APs in different combinations. After the code upgrade, all of the old WLAN Override settings are simply gone from the controllers and all APs, correct? And at that point, are all APs broadcasting all SSIDs, or none? -Lee Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Syracuse University 315 443-3003 ________________________________ From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Hector J Rios Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 12:14 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco LWAPP- The change from WLAN Override to AP Groups- Pain? Lee, We are using it and we like it. We are running 5.2.130 in WCS and 5.2.178 in our controllers. If you are going to have several WLANs going to different APs, you have to create multiple groups and move all your APs into their appropriate groups. AP groups come with a default group that contains all the WLANs and all APs belong to that group unless you change it. So I highly recommend that you move all your APs off of the default group. You can create and push all your groups through WCS. On gotcha that we have found is that when you move an AP into a AP group, if you use WCS, it will restart the AP, if you use a controller, it doesn't. Don't know why. Thanks, Hector Rios Louisiana State University From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Lee H Badman Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 9:49 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco LWAPP- The change from WLAN Override to AP Groups- Pain? Knowing that some have already gone down this road... We are still on "stable" 4.2.code, have not jumped to 5 yet. It is our understanding that "stable" 5 code will be coming out soon, and we have several reasons to go to the 5 train (I realize 6 is also coming out, but may be too bleeding edge for us out of the gate). All of that aside, when we move out of 4.2 into 5, we will thankfully put WLAN Override behind us. But is a feature we use extensively out of necessity, and so we'll most certainly need to use "AP Groups" in the more current code. I'm wondering what the pain was in transitioning from WLAN Override to AP Groups on a large scale during the code upgrade, and if there were any particular issues of note during the process. Thanks- Lee Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Syracuse University 315 443-3003 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
