We did this a few years back with a 5508 controller and several aps. Basically, you will need one vlan for the aps to talk to the controller. You will have to convert the access points to light weight aps. That wasn't very intuitive, so here is a link. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/controller/7.2/configuration/guide/cg_lwap.html#wp1345331
The controller handles the routing between the ap vlan and the other vlan's that the clients will use. What we did is set 4 ports on the controller in a lag, connected to 4 ports on our core switch. You will need 7.4 or higher code on the 2504 to support lag with its 4 ports. The allowed vlans on this port group are, the controller to ap vlan, data vlan for laptops, open access vlan for the public and voice vlan for ip phones. Good luck. -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 9:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SemiOT: Cisco 2504 WLC tips? All, I'm the happy recipient of this beastie, and I'm reading through a bunch of manuals for it, trying to figure out a good approach for transforming our 15 x 1240AG WAPs into a cohesive group, rather than managing them individually. The WAPs are spread across three HP 2800 PWR switches, and carry three VLANs each (one is the management VLAN (wired side only) and two are broadcast with different SSIDs - a guest network and a production network, both using WPA PSK). First step is to get one of the WAPs talking to the WLC, then once that's working, change over the rest, and then I'm going to introduce 802.1x in a new SSID, and start switching all of the production wireless to it, and (I hope, depending on whether or not our barcode scanners will support 802.1x) eliminate the extra SSID. But, I'm finding I have some questions that the manuals aren't addressing. For instance, the unit has two standard 1g ports and 2 PoE 1g ports. One needs to be the management port, but should I connect the other ports to each of my three switches? Each of the switches has a connection to my layer3 switch. Should I connect the management port to the L3 switch, and out the WLC between the switches and the L3 switch, or should I just connect the 3 non-management ports to the switches? Does anyone have some pointers on setting this up? So far, I've found and read most or all of each of these: Cisco2500SeriesWirelessControllerDeploymentGuide Cisco2500SeriesWirelessControllerGettingStartedGuide CiscoWirelessLANControllerConfigurationGuide7_2 ConvertAutonomousWAPstoLightweightMode7_2 I have browsed through these: CiscoWirelessControlSystemConfigurationGuide_Release7.0.172.0 CiscoLocationApplianceConfigurationGuide_Release6.0 Haven't touched these yet: CiscoLocationApplianceConfigurationGuide_Release6.0 Cisco_SBA_BN_WirelessLANCleanAirDeploymentGuide-Aug2012 Any thoughts, on or off list, would be appreciated - even if it's a pointer to a Cisco list or forum. Thanks, Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
