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Chapter 7 Controlling Lightweight Access Points
Configuring Backup Controllers
Using the CLI to Debug WGB Issues
Use the commands in this section if you experience any problems with the WGB.
1. To enable debugging for IAPP messages, errors, and packets, enter these commands:
• debug iapp all enable—Enables debugging for IAPP messages.
• debug iapp error enable—Enables debugging for IAPP error events.
• debug iapp packet enable—Enables debugging for IAPP packets.
2. If you experience a roaming issue, enter this command:
debug mobility handoff enable
3. If you experience an IP assignment issue and DHCP is used, enter these commands:
• debug dhcp message enable
• debug dhcp packet enable
4. If you experience an IP assignment issue and static IP is used, enter these commands:
• debug dot11 mobile enable
• debug dot11 state enable
Configuring Backup Controllers
A single controller at a centralized location can act as a backup for access points when they lose the
primary controller in the local region. Centralized and regional controllers need not be in the same
mobility group. Using the controller CLI, you can specify a primary, secondary, and tertiary controller
for your network’s access points. In controller software release 4.2, you can specify the IP address of the
backup controller, which allows the access points to fail over to controllers outside of the mobility group.
This feature is currently supported only through the controller CLI.
Note When an access point’s primary controller comes back online, the access point disassociates from the
backup controller and reconnects to its primary controller. The access point falls back to its primary
controller and not to any secondary controller for which it is configured. For example, if an access point
is configured with primary, secondary, and tertiary controllers, it fails over to the tertiary controller when
the primary and secondary controllers become unresponsive and waits for the primary controller to come
back online so that it can fall back to the primary controller. The access point does not fall back from the
tertiary controller to the secondary controller if the secondary controller comes back online; it stays
connected to the tertiary controller until the primary controller comes back up.
Using the CLI to Configure Backup Controllers
Using the CLI, follow these steps to configure primary, secondary, and tertiary controllers for specific
access points.
Step 1 To configure a primary controller for a specific access point, enter this command:
config ap primary-base controller_name Cisco_AP [controller_ip_address]
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