Cisco Systems CISCO881SECK9 Performing the Upgrade, Secure an IP Address on the Access Point

Chapter 4 Basic Wireless Device Configuration

Upgrading to Cisco Unified Software

Secure an IP Address on the Access Point

Secure an IP address on the access point so it that can communicate with the WLC and download the Unified image upon boot up. The host router provides the access point DHCP server functionality through the DHCP pool. Then the access point communicates with the WLC and setup option 43 for the controller IP address in the DHCP pool configuration. The following is a sample configuration:

ip dhcp pool embedded-ap-pool
network 60.0.0.0 255.255.255.0
dns-server 171.70.168.183
default-router	60.0.0.1
option 43 hex	f104.0a0a.0a0f	(single WLC IP address(10.10.10.15) in hex format)
int vlan1

ip address 60.0.0.1 255.255.255.0

For more information about the WLC discovery process, see Cisco Wireless LAN Configuration Guide at: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/controller/4.0/configuration/guide/ccfig40.html

Confirm that the Mode Setting is Enabled

To confirm that the mode setting is enabled, perform the following steps.

Step 1 Ping the WLC from the router to confirm IP connectivity.

Step 2 Enter the service-modulewlan-ap 0 session command to establish a session into the access point. Step 3 Confirm that the access point is running an autonomous boot image.

Step 4 Enter the show boot command on the access point to confirm that the mode setting is enabled. The following is sample output for the command:

# show	boot
BOOT path-list:			flash:ap802-k9w7-mx.124/ap802-k9w7-mx.124
Config	file:		flash:/config.txt
Private Config file:			flash:/private-config
Enable	Break:		no
Manual	Boot:		yes
HELPER	path-list:		no
NVRAM/Config file
buffer	size:	32768

Mode Button: on

Radio Core TFTP: ap#

Performing the Upgrade

To upgrade the autonomous software to Cisco Unified software, follow these steps:

Step 1 To change the access point boot image to a Cisco Unified upgrade image (also known as a recovery image), issue the service-modulewlan-ap 0 bootimage unified command, in global configuration mode.

Router# conf terminal

Router(config)# service-module wlan-ap 0 bootimage unified

Router(config)# end

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