Hi,
We are using two Cisco 4404 Wireless controllers, with a
Bluesocket box for web auth. The Cisco boxes and APs have been
performing well. We don't use the WCS software at the moment as it
seemed quite buggy in evaluation.
The Bluesocket box has been going a bit downhill recently since
their 5.x and 6.x software releases. If you used them as AP
controllers too then they might be better as this seems to be
where they are aiming. It used to be rock solid on 4.x, but since
upgrading we've had several crashes and problems, which are slowly
getting fixed. It would help a lot if they would let us have a
shell on the box, too... :-(
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 03:40:30PM +0000, Kevin Hayton wrote:
> We are finding that the management of the wireless network is easy with
> these units, but we suspect that we will need WCS to make a single
> management platform available. Currently we have to adjust configs on each
> unit.
I tend to use clusterssh [1] for command-line management of both
WLC boxes at the same time. We script some things by pulling data
with SNMP. You can generate commands and then paste them into cssh if
you need to apply to both controllers.
We maintain the main config off the boxes (you can get a basic
config to work from, albeit slightly broken at the moment, with
show running-config). This makes adding a new WLC easy - ssh in
and paste the config. That's how we added the second one and
deployment took ~20 minutes.
> We have 170 APs with a further 50 to come on stream in the next 3 months.
> Migration from fat to thin AP (LWAPP) is not totally straightforward, but
> we have a procedure which seems to work well.
We have around 50-60 APs and growing quite fast. Users are around
300 unique per day (100 concurrant) and increasing even faster.
To convert Cisco APs to thin APs I wrote a perl script to auto
upgrade the IOS and then flash the LWAP firmware. It made moving
APs fairly easy, and then we just repatched them from their old
connections to the main network. About 10 minutes downtime per AP.
New APs are trivial - register in the DHCP servers and plug into
the network.
Cheers,
Matthew
[1] http://clusterssh.wiki.sourceforge.net/Main+Page
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