topic Mixed AP Models in same RF-Domain in ExtremeWireless (WiNG)

Mixed AP Models in same RF-Domain

Larry_S — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 16:37:00 GMT

All:
I have an existing Mint 2 RF-Domain managed by Central NX controller.
Site RF-Domain manager is AP7522. I wish to add a AP410 or AP310 to the site.
Can the 1 RF-Domain handle both AP models in the same native management Vlan.

Any confirmation or direction is much appreciated.
Larry_S

RE: Mixed AP Models in same RF-Domain

Daren_E — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 21:29:00 GMT

Afternoon Larry,

As long as all the APs within that RFD are running the same version of code you may have multiple APs co-exist.
Which ever AP is the bigger tier/hardware device it will take over as the RFDM.

RE: Mixed AP Models in same RF-Domain

Larry_S — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 14:19:00 GMT

Daren, thank you for the clarification.
With respect to the multiple AP in a Common RF-Domain.
Were an Auto-provisioning is in place will the policy refer to ANY in the AP model to meet the mixed AP requirement.
Thank you
Larry_S

RE: Mixed AP Models in same RF-Domain

ckelly — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 17:48:00 GMT

Larry,
First, having multiple AP model types in the same RFDomain is completely normal in a distributed (centralized controller) deployment like yours and is something that is happening at probably the majority of deployments.

In this scenario, the auto-provisioning policy could be setup one of two ways:
1) Create a separate auto-provisioning rule for each AP model type and then assigns an exisitng model-specific AP profile to each rule.
2) Create a single auto-provisioning rule that accepts "any" AP model type and then assigns all of the APs an existing single AP profile that uses the 'anyap' model type.

For #1, you would need to have already created an AP profile for each of your AP model types so that you could specify them in the auto-provisioning rule.
For #2, you would need to have already created an "anyap" AP profile that you could specify to use in the auto-provisioning rule.
#adopt anyap precedence 10 profile anyAPprofile any

RE: Mixed AP Models in same RF-Domain

Larry_S — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 19:02:00 GMT

ckelly

thank you for you assistance here.
Appreciated.

Larry_S