Large CUWN conversions - any war stories

[CHRISTOPHER KANE]

We are in the early stages of a proposed conversion from Autonomous to CUWN. We have experience with CUWN but have not run through such a large amount of conversions. We have roughly 600 APs (300 sites w/2 APs per site). We have tested several conversions in lab environments but we do not know the implications of trying to roll this out in an aggressive time frame.

I was hoping someone could share their experiences of such a large rollout. Any war stories or lessons learned would be appreciated.

Thanks for the time,

-chris

[dennischolmes]

Good going Chris. We just converted over 800 APs in 223 locations nationwide remotely and had only one AP give any issue at all. These were a variety of 1100s, 1231s, and 1242s. Only one little issue to keep in mind. If you allow these to join a particular controller and then later replace that controller, make sure you have the security hash to add to the new controller or else it will not register with the new controller. You can get the hash by doing an lwapp debug, copy and paste.