I am building an Aruba wireless LAN using two 3600 controllers and AP105 access points. I want to provide an Active/Standby configuration, so that all the APs are terminated on one controller, while the other controller acts as a Standby. The first thing the controller asks when you boot it up is whether it is a master, a local, a standalone, or a remote-node. The default selection is master, but the documentation I have seen says that if a 3000-series controller is a master it should not service APs. So, my first question is, how do I configure each of these controllers to act as an Active/Standby pair, with both capable of servicing APs?
I have also read documentation that discusses using an LMS and Backup LMS address in the AP configuration to provide redundancy. I'm not sure that this is what I want, since, while this may give me controller failover capability, I don't believe this will give me a single repository for all of my configuration data.
I have been trolling the Airheads forum and reading the Validated Reference Design guides, trying to answer some of these basic questions, but haven't found anything definitive yet. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
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