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Deploy a new 5508 as a secondary WLC into network

prafranc1 — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 11:16:56 GMT

Hi Friends,

I'm really poor in WLC deployment.

I need to deploy a new 5508 WLC into network as a secondary controller. The primary WLC (5508) has been configured as a single WLC as of now and working good.... Now I need to deploy the new 5508 as the secondary controller.

I could connect to the console and do the basic configs. (Service interface and Management int IP Addresses etc,)

Now I need to perform two tasks:

1) I should synchronize the configuration from the primary 5508 to the secondary 5508 which i have just added. Please guide me how to do it?

2) I need to configure the HA (failover) using the RP or by giving static Pri/Sec/Ter per AP.

Please help me ASAP as I am not much used to WLC deployments.

Thanks,

Francis

HI,

Sandeep Choudhary — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 12:28:56 GMT

HI,

Is it a HA-SKU license model(secondary )?
Or do you have atleast 50 AP license on secondary WLC ?

If you have one of the mentioned above then go through this guide:

http://networkguy.de/?p=558

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless/controller/technotes/7-5/High_Availability_DG.pdf

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Thanks for the reply...

prafranc1 — Sat, 21 Nov 2015 17:27:17 GMT

Thanks for the reply...

Please find the show license summary results of Primary and Secondary 5508 WLCs pasted below:

Kindly guide me if the license is good to get the redundancy....

Primary 5508 WLC> sh license summary

License Store: Primary Licene Storage
Store Index: 0 Feature: base                   Version 1.0
   License Type: Permanent
   Lincense State: Active, Not in Use
   License Count : Non-Counted
   License Priority: Medium
License Store: Primary License Storage
StoreIndex: 1 Feature: base-ap-count               Version 1.0
   License Type: Permanent
   License State: Active, In Use
   License Count: 25/25 (Active/In-use)
   License Priority: Medium
License Store: Evaluation License Storage
StoreIndex: 0   Feature: base-ap-count               Version 1.0
   License Type: Evaluation
   License State: Inactive
        Evaluation total period:   8 weeks 4 days
        Evaluation period left :   8 weeks 3 days
        License Count: 500 / 0 (Active/In-use)
   License Priority: Low

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Secondary 5508 WLC> sh license summary

License Store: Primary Licene Storage
Store Index: 0 Feature: base                   Version 1.0
   License Type: Permanent
   Lincense State: Active, Not in Use
   License Count : Non-Counted
   License Priority: Medium
License Store: Evaluation License Storage
StoreIndex: 0   Feature: base-ap-count               Version 1.0
   License Type: Evaluation
   License State: Active, Not in Use, EULA not accepted
        Evaluation total period:   8 weeks 4 days
        Evaluation period left :   8 weeks 3 days
        License Count: 500 / 0 (Active/In-use)
   License Priority: None

As per screenshot, I can only

Sandeep Choudhary — Sat, 21 Nov 2015 17:38:38 GMT

As per screenshot, I can only say that :

primary WLC has 25 AP license.

secondary don't have any base AP license but I think it has HA SKU license.( you can check what's written on invoice for decoy day WLC, it must be as AIR-5508-HA)

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Thanks again Sandeep....

prafranc1 — Sun, 22 Nov 2015 09:46:25 GMT

Thanks again Sandeep....

It would be great if I could get it confirmed that the licensing part is okay....

Thank you...

Hi,

Sandeep Choudhary — Sun, 22 Nov 2015 10:36:48 GMT

Hi,

You invoice can show the part number you baught. ( it will tell the exact license type)

Regards

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