Hi everybody! I have this scenario where my customer has two WLCs in its HQ a 5508 and a 4402 my intention is to create a mobility group so that they have "redundancy" leaving 4402 as back up in case of failure. When I put both WLCs on production they were "fighting" for the control of the APs it took a long time for 5508 to gain control over the APs in fact there were at least 3 that were jumping between WLCs by the way 5508 was configured as the master, mobility group name is the same and also IOS, but when 4402 came to operations the fight started. So there is a part on the configuration wireless/access points and inside each AP there is a High Availability option where you can configure primary, secondary and tertiary WLCs, which is great unless you have 50, 100 or even more APs. So I clicked the Global Configuration section where I "can" configure credentials, HA, etc for all of my APs at one click but it just doesn't have any effect on the configuration of any APs. I also found in the User Guide a CLI command that do this and I thought well the GUI might be prone to failure and I tried the CLI command with no results either. I have a TAC open and the engineer has been doing some labs but still haven't found an answer to this. So my question is, beside the intelligence the WLC adds to the WLAN, what is the point of having a WLC if I cannot have control over my APs configuration from a centralized point? I ingore if WCS now NCS could do this but in case the answer is yes, you all now that is not very likely that a customer that barely accepted to have two WLCs would accept to buy such an expensive tool. Has someone experienced and found a solution for this? I'd really appreciate your comments and suggestions. By the way, there is another issue I faced with this deployment, the web authenticated guest network. As you may know it is needed that one creates a username and password for the web authentication method. If I have this scenario with two WLCs, do I have to create the same username and password in both WLCs in case one goes down? Thanks in advance for taking the time to read such a long problem description, I'd appreciate all of your comments. ... View more

Hi everyone, I've been asked to implement a point to multipoint solution which I had never done before. My question is how many non roots can the root support? I am planning to use 1310 bride as root with a AIR-ANT24120 and non roots AP1242 with AIR-ANT2410Y-R they wont be longer than 1 km. I'd appreciate your comments, suggestions and design guides if there are any. Thank you! ... View more

Hi, I've been having this problem for so long. In the company we have two SSIDs for corporate and guest networks respectively when I try to connect to any of the SSIDs it doesn't happen until 5 retries. The only log I get that seems to be related to it is the following: *Jun 11 11:48:09.062: %APF-1-DISCONECT_MOBILE_DUE_TO_WLAN_SW: apf_policy.c:541 Disconnecting mobile 00:23:32:73:d7:15 due to switch of WLANs from 1(femsawl) to 2(visitas) Here it shows a switch between SSIDs but if you just turned on an apple device and try to associate for the first time to any of the SSIDs the scenario is the same, several tries to connect. Is there any known issues with apple devices. I am running a 4402 wlc with 6.0.202.0 software version. I'd appreciate any comments on this. Kind regards! ... View more

Hi, I tried to implement WLC5508 in my network but when I came to connect it to the switch core which is a Catalyst 4000 the link didn't get up. This switch module is a fastethernet, I wonder if that might be the problem since I also tried connecting my laptop to the WLC and the link got up. If that might be the cause, is it possible to get WLC to 100 Mbps? Thanks!!             ... View more

Hello! I am having a problem with web authentication it just quit working. The problem is that once I open a broswer it does not redirects me to the login page (virtual interface) thus not getting authenticated. I wonder if there is a way to restart the service in the WLC or I have to restart the WLC? Thanks in advance! ... View more