Network Management

Hi all, we began our wifi deployment with only a handful of devices but that number is growing and so is the list of sites requiring wireless access. We have various remote sites that make up a fully routed, segregated WAN and I am trying to avoid a situation where we must have a separate master for each site or have to stretch a management VLAN across multiple sites. Has anyone else got a similar setup to this that works or am I asking the impossible? Please bear with me I am new to the way the Arubas operate.

 

Thanks,

 

Michelle

That is where you could use controller-less access points:  http://www.arubanetworks.com/products/networking/aruba-instant/  Instant can be deployed across the WAN without controllers.. 

 

Hi Colin, thanks for your response. So I should have mentioned we do currently use Instant APs... my bad sorry. I have been referring to the head APs of each site as the master for each site so maybe my terminology is off.

 

Regardless, at the moment, in order to manage each site, we are having to configure 1 controller-less AP for each subnet (as that's all they appear to discover). This is really time consuming. Is there a way to see all APs across all subnets? The APs appear to be Layer3 capable but I just dont know how to take advantage of that capability.

 

Cheers,

Michelle

Do you have Airwave?

Is airwave the only option?
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I would say yes.  Instant is designed to have a single AP manage all APs in a "cluster".  All of those APs need to share a single management subnet.  If you have multiple sites, that all have different subnets, you would need a single VC for each site to manage each "cluster" of APs at that site.  If you want to manage multiple sites from a single pane, you would need Airwave.  It would allow you to deploy sites quickly by having a template of your config and you can make your new APs come up and get the template automatically.  You would also be able to gather statistics by site, or in aggregate.  

 

Is that what you are talking about?