I have 2 5508 controllers in a mobility group. Any good way to keep the configuration between the 2 controllers synched up?
I thought about copying the config from my primary controller to the secondary controller, but I would think there is a more elegant way to make this happen.
1) Is it possible for 2 WLCs installed in seperate data centres with L3 seperation to be joined in a mobility group? We will have aps in the branch offices split between controllers so we want to make sure roaming work ok. Also all guest access should be anchored to data centre 2.
2) in flexconnect local switching mode, do I need to create flexconnect groups if I'm only using radius servers in the data centre with no requirement to use local radius as a backup?
How do Mobility Groups work with internal DHCP scopes on a WLC 5508?We have a WLC 5508 with two internal DHCP scopes which redirect to captive portals for authentication. I am looking at putting in a second WLC in a mobility group setup to provide some WLC redundancy. The LWAPs will be setup so that every second AP is on the has the second WLC as its primary controller. If the primary WLC fails we want the secondary to be able to take over and issue IP's from the internal scope. How do you set this up with a Mobility group so the second WLC does not act as a rouge DHCP server while the primary WLC is still active?
View 6 Replies View RelatedWe are in a warehouse type setting and have data centers on each side of warehouse with 5508 WLC's in each data center. Each side is on its own subnet with routing in between and a different set of SSID's for each set of WLC’s. Are goal is to have the ability to failover in the event that if one data center goes down AP’s will move to the controllers in the other DC and the clients will still be able to operate.
Our thought was to implement mobility groups between the controllers. While I saw documentation on setting this up when the controllers are on the same vlan, I didnt see any setup config when controllers are in different vlans. So I am wondering if mobility groups are even an option for what we want to accomplish. For the most part clients stay on their respected sides of the warehouse and so we are not necessarily needing roaming for clients between controllers in DC1 and DC2. But that does raise another question in that we do have a planned voice wlan that we would like to have the ability to roam between each side of the warehouse. But we have seen ip issues with this. In the past we have had both SSID's setup on each side and ran to issues with clients not renewing their IP address when moving to the controllers on the different subnets.
Can we setup mobility groups between controllers on different vlans/subnets? For failover purposes will mobility groups assist in our setup with 2 DC’s and different subnets/vlans? If the answer is yes we can setup mobility groups between different subnets, is there a way to setup the SSID's on all controllers and have the ability for clients to roam and renew their IP’s when moving to a different controller on a different subnet?
Did any know that how many AP Groups can be created by one Controller? (5508) May I have 100 AP Groups?
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View 8 Replies View RelatedDo you know if the new 2500 series controller supports things like mobility groups? Could I use 2 of these and do inter-controller roaming. Also do you know if this would work with a 2106 controller and a 2505 controller or are they 2 completely independent controllers only knowing about their own APs??
View 12 Replies View RelatedWhat consequences could i have if i install a WiSM-2 module into a pair of 6500 configured in VSS and another WiSM-2 module into other pair of 6500 configured in VSS for serving a 300 APs??...in this case, do i need to configure mobility groups for guarantee a high availability and also redundancy of controllers?Under the best practices, is much better having the two WiSM-2 modules into a single pair of 6500 configured in VSS??
View 4 Replies View RelatedSo we have a Cisco 5508 controller that is managing 15 AP's in one of our buildings.I am running 2 wlans, one is internal access via (wpa) radius, peap and domain login...that works well now
The other is a guest lan, that is only allowed to surf the web.
The question from our security group, is there a way to restrict wireless access to ONLY a corporate approved list of devices.
As it stands right now, we only support Blackberry's as our mobility device. All local data is encrypted. The issue here is our testing shows that with an Iphone (not approved) it is very easy to connect to the WPA network if a user knows how to enter in their domain credentials. From there they can browse our internal web servers and download corporate data to a non approved, non encrypted device such as the iphone.
Any link that will give configuration examples of a wireles anchor config with one controller in a DMZ. I have tried this on my own and have some problems in my test enviorment. I believe my issues were with the firewall but not exactly sure.
View 4 Replies View RelatedWe have 5508 controller (redundant) & would like to configure Staff vlan to get authenticate with active directory.i am new to the controller device & want to configure controller with active directory (windows 2012).
5508 controller (Active & Standby) with 48 Access Point.(configuration Done) Guest Vlan (only for internet Access) controller based web authentication configured.
Staff Vlan ( inside & outside ). Need to configure with LDAP authentication?
Recently I've been working with the ACS 5.2 (Installed on VMWare). At the beginning I was using a Win Server 2003 Enterprise edition AD, and there was no problem with the AD and the CA Authority. Because some of my customers use Win Server 2008 I change the AD platform to Win Server 2008 Enterprise edition (x64).I don't really have a great experience with Win Server Platforms and, for what I've seen, the Win Server 2003 Services deployment is easier than the Win Server 2008 is.
So, when I used the Win server 2003 I could not only synchronize the ACS with the AD but also use some groups created on the AD to perform the Network Access Authentication. When I try to do the same with the Win Server 2008 AD the ACS and the Server get Synchronized but when I want to add the groups for the Authentication purposes there is no one, absolutely nothing... so I cannot do any test.Also I looked for information about the compatibility between the ACS 5.2 and the Win Server 2008 platforms and at the end the platforms are compatibles.
Is it possible to assign a single ssid to multiple interface groups by assigning the ssid to multiple AP groups?
I have buildings geographically dispersed that are configured with multiple vlans in interface groups so that I can maintain an addressing scheme of dhcp assigned addresses per building. Each building is also further grouped as AP groups. I'd like to know if by assigning the same wlan ssid to each of the AP groups, will I maintain addressing integrity for each building? I'm thinking it will work.
Do the buildings have to be outside AP range of each other to avoid problems?
5508 controller
7.2.110.0 code
6 buildings
6 interface groups
1 ssid
I read the configuration guide about the 7.3 release. And I figured out that you will need a hash key for establishing a mobility group relation between a controller and a virtual controller. The 7.3 release for the 5500 series works fine for me.But the latest release 7.0.235.0 for the wireless lan controller series 4400 does not have a functionality to add a hash key while creating a new mobility group member.The command "config mobility group member hash" is totally missing. How to establish a mobility group between a 4400 controller and a virtual then ?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI read the configuration guide about the 7.3 release. And I figured out that you will need a hash key for establishing a mobility group relation between a controller and a virtual controller. The 7.3 release for the 5500 series works fine for me.
But the latest release 7.0.235.0 for the wireless lan controller series 4400 does not have a functionality to add a hash key while creating a new mobility group member.
The command "config mobility group member hash" is totally missing.
how to establish a mobility group between a 4400 controller and a virtual then?
I recently add a second CT5508 to the network, but when I tried to add the first 5508 to the mobilty group I received a message like this:
"error in creating member"
I've tried different mobility names, via GUI, via CLI and always the same error.
I've verified twice or more than twice connectivity issues or any error on the entering the MAC and IP of the controllers, everything is fine.
I'm using version 7.0.116.0
I have two 5508, no anchor, only one SSID with internal web authentication using radius server.Under "Configuring Mobility Groups", Cisco guide says: "If a client roams in web authentication state, the client is considered as a new client on another controller instead of considering it as a mobile client".
I understand that if a client that has already autheticated via web roams between two LAPs that are associated with different WLCs, it has to reathenticate.
I have to WLC's a 4402 and 5508 in a mobilty group. they are both running 7.0.116.0. They are configured to use Web Authentication. We are having complaints that Users are having to re-authenticate when moving around the office. My theory is they are moving from one WLC to the other and then requiring to re-authenticate.
View 5 Replies View RelatedAfter upgrading my 5508s to 7.2.110.0, they are reporting mobility data path errors to one of my WiSMs running 7.0.235.0.
I get these messages on the 5508s reporting that it can't send a ping to the affected WiSM:
*ethoipSocketTask: Aug 08 21:15:41.175: %ETHOIP-3-PKT_RECV_ERROR: ethoip.c:341 ethoipSocketTask: ethoipRecvPkt returned error
*ethoipSocketTask: Aug 08 21:15:41.175: %ETHOIP-3-PING_RESPONSE_TX_FAILED: ethoip_ping.c:312 Failed to tx a ping response to <ip address>, rc=5
But maybe there is another clue because I also see in the same log these errors referencing the same WiSM:
*bcastReceiveTask: Aug 08 21:15:45.310: %LOG-1-Q_IND: mm_dir.c:1969 Failed to recreate the SSH Rule for <ip address>.
*mmSSHPeerRegister: Aug 08 21:15:44.829: %MM-1-SSHRULE_CREATE_FAILED: mm_dir.c:1969 Failed to recreate the SSH Rule for <ip address>.
Why is the controller trying to SSH to another controller? Was some SSH related feature added to 7.2 that has been accidentally enabled?
for some reason our wlan-controllers were build up to be standalone instead of beeing one mobility-group. I would like to change this in order to use all features of HA.
let me describe our scenario: two WLCs 5508 running SW ver. 6
- same subnet
- both are running in master controller mode
- different hostnames, ip-addresses, etc
- all settings for WLANs and AP-groups (exept the APs themselves in these groups) are the same
- in total at this moment we are running around 100 LAPs configured one half on WLC#1, the other half on WLC#2
I don't know exactly why, but when that setting was installed, someone already configuredHA for each accesspoint... e.g.:
- AP#1 primary WLC#1, secondary WLC#2
- AP#2 primary WLC#2, secondary WLC#1 but without WLC#2 knowing the configuration for AP#1 it makes no sense, correct?
so my question is: how should I do the migration in the best way?
is it easy as:
- disabling master controller mode on WLC#2
- configuring both WLCs into one mobility group
--> WLCs are negotiating their configurations for the APs
I have Cisco Wireless Lan Controller 5508 with 35 (3600 Series Access Points. Do i need to purchase Mobility Service Engine for this or no need? Do i need WCS server for this or no need?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a 4400 and a 5508 WLC in the same location We want to be able to roam between ap joined to both the 4400 and the 5508 using only one ssid
Do I only need to create a mobility group and add both WLC then create only one WLAN on one of the controllers and it will be shared across bot WLC.
I know that the 3600 series APs are not supported on the 4404 WLC. However, would the following scenario be supported? I would like to use the 4404 (software rel. 7.0) as a guest anchor with a 5508 (software release 7.2) as the foreign controller supporting series 3600 APs. I ask because the APs do not need to join the guest anchor.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have recently installed an Aruba Mobility Controller and trying to authenticate WLAN traffic off to the ACS server, but using a valid 802.1x account the authentication process is failing.Which version of RADIUS should I be using?Is there any way to enforce the Aruba controller to use TACACS instead?
View 1 Replies View RelatedWe have a customer that have 2 5508 as primary and backup controller and a 4400 as an anchor controller. We plan to upgrade the 5508 to 7.3.112.0 and the 4400 is already 7.0.116.0. Will there be any issue if the anchor controller is not the same code as the foreign controller? Do I also have to upgrade the acnhor controller to 7.0.240.0?
View 2 Replies View RelatedIm configuring a WLC 5508 ( version 7 ) with h-reap local switching.All is working , yet i wonder if the vlan mapping can be done better.Currently i need to go into each Lightweight Access point , enable h-reap, then set the native vlan , with the final step to map the vlan. This needs to be done for each AP. In an environment of 100's of APs i would take forever. ( i thought one of the main points of the WLC is centralized management).
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am setting up officeexten. I have placed the officeextend wlc in the dmz with an mgmt ip of 192.168.10.2. in the process of anchoring this to the internal wlc. Also the ip on the firewall for this interface is 192.168.10.1
1. does the mobility group need to match the same on the internal wlc ?
2. Now do i need a NAT transnational on the firewall for the external WAN ip (AP primed address say 66.10.10.10) to NAT back to 192.168.10.2 ?
3. The 5508 WLC is running on ver6.0.199.4 (license level base) - will this support office extend?
I have a new deployment of 44 3502i AP's in 3 buildings at one of my campus'.The 5508 wlc is running latest 7.0.116.0 code.I have some users who take their work with them as they go from location to location on this campus.They need to be able to smoothly switch from AP to AP without having to reauthenticate each time the next AP takes over in the handoff.On the ssid in question we run 802.1x back to 1 auth server; there is no failover auth server.All APs are in one AP Group.My thought is to add all 44 of the APs to one HREAP Group.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a question about a daily archive sync job. I have the job set to run by device type groups. My question is, when I delete or add devices, will they automatically be added to the job?
View 1 Replies View Relatedweb authenticate users within a specific Active Directory Security Group. I tried to authenticate over Radius with Cisco Secure ACS and Network Access Restrictions. But NAR only works with Layer 2 authentication. And Web Authentication over LDAP can only be used with User Objects.
View 5 Replies View RelatedWindows clients work fine. When loaced from safari in Mac OS, it also works fine. -- If I browse to the url, like vpn.xxx.com/profilename, I can login and anyconnect will start and connect automatically. Only when run from applications > Cisco > Cisco Anyconnect Secure Mobility Client, I will get this failure. Is this a configuration issue?
View 1 Replies View RelatedWe have ASA running code 8.0.4 with Active/Standby for quite long time. Today when we gave the command wri standby it started sync the config to standby ASA but waited forever.when we checked the show failover, we got the following result.
This host: Secondary - Active
Active time: 1928633 (sec)
slot 0: ASA5540 hw/sw rev (2.0/8.0(4)) status (Up Sys)
Interface PERIMETER-MGMT (10.12.8.1): Normal (Not-Monitored)
Interface OUTSIDE (86.36.xx.xx): Normal (Waiting)
[code].....
When we console to Standby ASA and tried to save (wri mem), we got the following error and also please note the hostname has become default...?
ciscoasa(config)# wri memory
Building configuration...
Command Ignored, Configuration in progress...
[FAILED]
and when we tried to give following command we got this error:
ciscoasa(config)# copy running-config startup-config
Source filename [running-config]?
%Error reading system:/running-config (Configuration temporarily locked)
ciscoasa(config)#
I see here the standby ASA IPS module is down, but can that issue cause not sync the config backup and writing to nvram (save config)..?
I have been asked what the equivalent of bridge-groups and BVIs is for an ASR1001 and I am struggling to find an example.If we have this IOS configuration:
bridge 1 protocol ieee
bridge 1 route ip
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/1
bridge-group 1
[code]....
What would be the equivalent for an ASR1001 with IOS XE?