Chapter 3 Tutorial
1Assign one NWA AP (A) as the controller AP for your wireless NWA AP network. This will be your primary controller AP. Acquire another NWA with the same model and firmware version as A, to serve as the secondary controller AP (E). Both controller APs (A and E) are in the 1st floor of the building (recommended). The NWA APs (B, C and D) from the 2nd, 3rd and 4th floors are going to be your managed APs.
Note: The controllers need to have static IP addresses in the same network. Make sure you set the IP addresses in the IP screen (see Section 14.2 on page 184).
•Configure the newly added NWA (E) in Secondary Controller AP mode.
•Configure the 1st floor NWA in Primary Controller AP (A) mode and enter the IP address of your Secondary Controller AP (E) for synchronization.
2Change the management mode of your 2nd, 3rd and 4th floor NWAs (B, C and D, originally in default standalone mode) to Managed AP mode. You can also manually enter the IP addresses of your primary and secondary NWA controller APs.
3Add the newly converted managed APs (B, C and D, from step 4) to the Managed Access Points List of the NWA primary controller AP.
4Check your settings and test the configuration. This example uses screens from G- 302 v3, a wireless client that will try to access one of the mananged APs, for this section.
3.6.4Configure Your NWA in Controller AP Mode
The NWA is set to Standalone AP mode by default. After you have made sure you have the correct configuration (see Section 23.8 on page 282) in the NWAs (A and E) of the 1st floor, you need to set both of them to controller AP mode, one will serve as your main controller while the other works as your backup.
Note: If your NWA is in controller AP mode, it serves as an access point for other APs in managed mode as well as for wireless clients in the network. That is, it still functions like a regular access point on top of being a controller AP. If you enable a SSID profile for it, the controller AP can still appear in the list of available wireless networks for wireless clients. However in case you have both primary and secondary controller APs in the network, the secondary controller AP’s WLAN radio is turned off as long as the primary controller AP is turned on.
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