01-22-2008 08:26 AM - edited 07-03-2021 03:14 PM
I am settign up a wireless infastructure for our corporate headquaters and 2 remote sites. Each site will have its own controller and I plan on using 1250 aironet aps (unified). I also plan on using ACS to implement 802.1x security and WCS to manage the controllers I have. The question I had was do I need an ACS and WCS for each site, all can I authenticate and manage all my system from corporate headquarters.
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01-22-2008 10:15 AM
One ACS, One WCS, and multiple WLCs.
01-22-2008 09:54 AM
You only need one WCS box. It will be able to control all of your controllers. Same goes for ACS. Yes, you can do everything from corporate headquarters. Also, how many APs will be at each remote site? It may not be necessary to deploy WLCs at each location.
01-22-2008 10:00 AM
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01-22-2008 10:07 AM
in that case you are right in deploying a WLC at each site.
One thing to keep in mind that I like to do in my remote locations is, assuming you are using PoE to power the APs, make sure you note the switchport that you have them plugged into in case they ever get hung and WCS/WLC cannot talk to them. A simple shut/no shut on the port will reboot it and that nearly always corrects my issue.
When I 1st deployed the wireless network I didn't document very well and when one got hung up and I couldn't see it in the CDP neighbor table I had to call users and ask them to do me favors. Much easier to do it myself.
01-22-2008 10:07 AM
had one more question. I am building this to scale with the default network being 802.11n. Using the same access points, can i have multiple wireless vlans i.e a vlan for guest, vlan for certain applications.
01-22-2008 10:11 AM
Yes. You can have multiple WLANs being broadcast out of each AP. We have four being broadcast out of each of our APs.
01-22-2008 10:14 AM
so the final take is one acs and multi wcs for my install
01-22-2008 10:15 AM
One ACS, One WCS, and multiple WLCs.
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