topic Cisco WLC with ISE - need to restrict access during non-business hours in Wireless

Cisco WLC with ISE - need to restrict access during non-business hours

__Beth__ — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 09:50:46 GMT

Hello,

We have a requirement to turn off our wireless during non-business hours. We have a 5508 WLC with ISE. What is the best way to accomplish this task?

Thank you in advance.

Beth

If you have PI, you can run

Stephen Rodriguez — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 19:19:09 GMT

If you have PI, you can run two templates on a schedule. One that disables the WLAN, and the other that enables the WLAN.

If you don't have PI, then you can use expect scripts to do the same thing.

HTH,

Steve

Aside from Steve's respond,

Leo Laohoo — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 00:04:17 GMT

Aside from Steve's respond, there are several methods of doing this and this will all depend on how complex your network is and how technical you want to do this.

1. As what Steve said, use PI and you can define several schedules when to turn off/on the SSID;

2. If you have corporate access, you can use AD to schedule non-business hours;

3. If you have Cisco PoE switches, you can enable EnergyWise to power off the APs;

4. If you manage your core network, you can enable time-based ACL to disable the default gateway of the dynamic interface which is attached to your SSID.

The most "destructive" method is option #3, because there are chances that your AP won't power up properly, if not power up at all.