topic Re: Move bulk accesspoints to an other controller in Wireless

Move bulk accesspoints to an other controller

Harrie Hendriks — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 18:05:50 GMT

Hello,

We have a third controller and we want to move some (300) accesspoints to that controller.

But I cannot find in the controller software or in Prime infra (3.4) how to do quickly, without to click on each Accesspoint and move them to that controller.

Is there a script to move a bulk access points to an other controller.

Re: Move bulk accesspoints to an other controller

Mark Elsen — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 11:36:52 GMT

- Doubt this will be possible the way you formulate it, actually AP's are never moved between controllers but discover controllers during the boot process usually with the help of DHCP options. The question then becomes : how do I reboot a series of AP's after changing the DHCP options for their Mac's on the DHCP server. Prime may have more flexible answers for this question by for instance selecting them all , and then choose reboot.

Re: Move bulk accesspoints to an other controller

Jurgens L — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 12:01:21 GMT

You can create a template as per below specifying the new primary WLC you would like the AP's to migrate to. If you do have DHCP option 43 running for the respective AP's I would suggest you update your DHCP settings in tandem with your change via Prime

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Re: Move bulk accesspoints to an other controller

Leo Laohoo — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 22:02:41 GMT

PI is really "finicky" when doing bulk AP moves. Sometimes it works.
If I wanted to move AP, either individual or bulk, I just use an Excel spreadsheet. Put the list of APs in column A and then in column B, I use this formula:

@concat("config ap primary-base <WLC NAME> ", A1," <WLC IP ADDRESS>")

Copy the formula to the rest of the column and then copy it (again) to the CLI. Works all the time.

Re: Move bulk accesspoints to an other controller

Rasika Nayanajith — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 01:39:30 GMT

I follow the method what Leo said. It works all the time 🙂

Rasika