AT-TQ2403 Management Software User's Guide

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Chapter 4: Managing Access Points and Clusters

The AT-TQ2403 Management Software shows current basic configuration settings for clustered access points (location, IP address, MAC address, status, and availability) and provides a way of navigating to the full configuration for specific APs if they are cluster members.

Standalone access points or those which are not members of this cluster do not show up in this listing. To configure standalone access points, you must discover or know the IP address of the access point and by using its IP address in a URL (http://IPAddressOfAccessPoint).

Note: The AT-TQ2403 Management Software is not designed for multiple, simultaneous configuration changes. If you have a network that includes multiple access points, and more than one administrator is logged on to the Administration Web pages and making changes to the configuration, all access points in the cluster will stay in sync but there is no guarantee that all configuration changes specified by multiple users will be applied.

The following topics are covered:

∙Navigating to Access Points Management

∙Understanding Clustering

∙What is a Cluster?

∙How Many APs Can a Cluster Support?

∙Only the same country domain setting can be clustered.

∙What Kinds of APs Can Cluster Together?

∙Which Settings are Shared as Part of the Cluster Configuration and Which Are Not?

∙Cluster Formation

∙Cluster Size and Membership

∙Intra-Cluster Security

∙Understanding Access Point Settings

∙Modifying the Location Description

∙Setting the Cluster Name

∙Stopping Clustering

∙Starting Clustering

∙Navigating to Configuration Information for a Specific AP and Managing Standalone APs

∙Navigating to an AP by Using its IP Address in a URL