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WLC 5500 with multiple APs

luisalviarez — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 03:17:11 GMT

We have a WLC 5500 apliance, but i have a problem, the APs have a administrative IP in a diferent segment, only conected to WLC the AP have same segment of the management interface, the 5500 don´t have APmanager interface.

How configurate the WLC to conected and administrate all AP with different segment IP

Product Version.................................. 6.0.182.0

chasis: AIR-CT5508-K9

Re: WLC 5500 with multiple APs

Stephen Rodriguez — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 23:13:22 GMT

The 5508 does not need a separate ap manager ip, the management ip does both jobs.

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WLC 5500 with multiple APs

luisalviarez — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:23:04 GMT

how the management ip does both jobs, what is the configuration on WLC

WLC 5500 with multiple APs

Stephen Rodriguez — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:00:32 GMT

That's just the architecture of the 5508. You don't need a seperate AP manager.

Cheers,

Steve

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WLC 5500 with multiple APs

Saurav Lodh — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 07:12:44 GMT

For Cisco 5500 Series Controllers, you are not required to configure an AP-manager interface. The management interface acts like an AP-manager interface by default, and the access points can join on this interface.

WLC 5500 with multiple APs

Amjad Abdullah — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 08:50:24 GMT

You may check this article about the discovery process:

http://tiny.cc/lqu1zw

Now, with what Steve above is trying to say is that with 5508 the management interface itself is the AP manager interface (by default). so, management and ap-manager interfaces are merged into one interface with same IP address. You can change this behavior but this is the default.

The article will tell you what mechanisms can be used to direct the APs to join the WLC even if they are on different subnet.

HTH

Amjad

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