Cisco Systems WAP121, WAP321 manual Managing Single Point Setup Across WAP Devices

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Single Point Setup Overview

Managing Single Point Setup Across WAP Devices

Single Point Setup creates a dynamic, configuration-aware cluster, or group, of WAP devices in the same subnet of a network. A cluster supports only a group of configured WAP121 devices or a group of configured WAP321 devices. A single cluster does not support a mix of WAP121 and WAP321 devices in the same group.

Single Point Setup allows the management of more than one cluster in the same subnet or network; however, they are managed as single independent entities. The table below shows Single Point Setup wireless service limits.

Group/Cluster	WAP Devices	Number of	Maximum
Type	per Single Point	Active Clients	Number of
	Setup	per Single Point	Clients (Active
		Setup	and Idle)
WAP121	4	40	64
WAP321	8	160	256

A cluster can propagate configuration information, such as VAP settings, QoS queue parameters, and radio parameters. When you configure Single Point Setup on a device, settings from that device (whether they are manually set or set by default) are propagated to other devices as they join the cluster. To form a cluster, make sure the following prerequisites or conditions are met:

STEP 1 Plan your Single Point Setup cluster. Be sure the two or more WAP devices you want to cluster are the same model. For example, Cisco WAP121 devices can only cluster with other Cisco WAP121 devices.

It is strongly recommended to run the latest firmware version on all clustered WAP devices.

NOTE Firmware upgrades are not propagated to all WAP devices in a cluster; you must upgrade each device independently.

STEP 2 Set up the WAP devices that will be clustered on the same IP subnet and verify that they are interconnected and accessible across the switched LAN network.

STEP 3 Enable Single Point Setup on all WAP devices. See Access Points.

STEP 4 Verify that the WAP devices all reference the same Single Point Setup name. See Access Points.

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