How can we put our wireless networks on a schedule

[mano.hernandez]

We have two 5508s in a boarding school environment and about 5 wireless networks. Administration wants to know how can we shut down the student networks @ 11:30pm and then have them come on @ 6:00am. Othern than doing it manually is there another way?

[Scott Fella]

If you had WCS or NCS you could do that by setting up a schedule. There is no option on the WLC itself.

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[turnera]

You may be able to use time based acl's.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_0t/12_0t1/feature/guide/timerang.html

Just a possible option you could explore.

[Serge Yasmine]

create a time based ACL and apply it on the switch that is connecting to the AP. Keep the following in mind, LWAPP is UDP, the Data is 12222 and LWAPP Control is 12223.

With ACL block the data path but keep the control path up so AP(s) keep joined to the wlc.

time-range STUDENT

                  periodic weekends 00:00 to 23:59

                  periodic weekdays 00:00 to 05:59

                  periodic weekdays 23:30 to 23:59

access-list 101 deny udp any any eq 12222 time-range STUDENT

access-list 101 permit ip any any