WLC 8.8 Compatibility with ISE

[mandpand]

HI ,

We need to upgrade our WLC to 8.8 as we are proposing AP4800 to customer . Customer has ISE 2.2 and would upgrade to 2.4 or higher as required.  Can some one recommend the correct version of ISE that would be required for upgrade.

WLC under consideration is 5520.

Regards

Mandar Pandit.

[marce1000]

 -                  Following table comes from the 8.8 release notes :

Interoperability with Other Clients

This section describes the interoperability of controller software with other client devices.

The following table describes the configuration used for testing the client devices.

Table 6. Test Bed Configuration for InteroperabilityHardware or Software ParameterHardware or Software Configuration Type

Release	8.8.x.
Cisco Wireless Controller	Cisco 5520 Wireless Controller
Access Points	AIR-CAP3802E-B-K9, AIR-AP1852E-B-K9
Radio	802.11ac, 802.11a, 802.11g, 802.11n (2.4 GHz or 5 GHz)
Security	Open, PSK (WPA-TKIP-WPA2-AES), 802.1X (WPA-TKIP-WPA2-AES) (EAP-FAST, EAP-TLS)
RADIUS	Cisco ACS 5.3, Cisco ISE 2.2, Cisco ISE 2.3
Types of tests	Connectivity, traffic (ICMP), and roaming between two APs

The following table lists the client types on which the tests were conducted. Client types included laptops, handheld dev

[Jason Kunst]

Correct these are tested version. Not every release is tested together but should work per does use support my
Network access device post

[Jason Kunst · Accepted solution]

The release of ise doesn’t need to change as the functionality is all the same

Granted 2.4 is our new recommendation long term

https://community.cisco.com/t5/security-documents/does-ise-support-my-network-access-device/ta-p/3650231

Barring any bugs in the wlc then everything should be fine

[marce1000]

  - I once had a discussion with an engineer of DImension Data about this who also argued 'radius is radius' ; why should you upgrade ISE ? To be on the safe side I recommend that at least the ISE version which was used in the test bed (table) should be used.

 M.

[Jason Kunst]

ISE recommendation currently is 2.4 but 2.2 is fine as well. This is overall stability with the product, not specific for interoperability with WLC.
https://community.cisco.com/t5/security-blogs/announcing-the-quot-suggested-release-quot-status-of-ise-2-4/ba-p/3775587