WCS - WLC Compatibility

[John Lee]

Hello;

I have a mix of controllers running different levels of Operating System, I am looking to upgrade all of these to 7.3.112, what I need to know is what effect this will have on my WCS. I have looked at the compatibility matrix and can see that I would need to upgrade to NCS 1.2.1.12 in the future but would I still be able to register my WLC's to WCS and/or what features would I lose?

Any help/advice appreciated.

Thanks;

[Stephen Rodriguez]

The 7.3 WLC would not be manageable from WCS.  The nice thing about the releationship between WLC and PI, is generally PI > WLC good to go.

So if you upgrade to PI, which you do need to do eventually, you should still be able to manage all your WLC.

HTH,
Steve

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[George Stefanick]

I have 4 locations on 7.4 code with wcs. I use wcs more for ap placement and alerts. About two weeks ago one locations wcs refuses to sync a set of controllers. Moving to prime in coming weeks..



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[Rasika Nayanajith]

If your WLCs currently added to WCS & then you upgrading WLC to higher versions, still you able to manage your WLC through WCS.

But if you are trying to add a new WLC with a version number higher than the WCS, then it will fail.(So option is to downgrade the WLC & then added to WCS & then do the WLC upgrade). Refer table 8 of the below link for WCS compatible WLC versions

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/controller/5500/tech_notes/Wireless_Software_Compatibility_Matrix.html

If you want to keep the WCS then that is the way to do it. Best would be if you could move to prime infrastructure.

HTH

Rasika

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