We are in the process of installing WCS, WiSMs, & APs (Cisco 1131s & 1242s). We may have as many as 8 WiSMs & 2,100 APs. Won't know until the site surveys are complete. We are also implementing Cisco Clean Access at the same time on the WLAN for security.
Currently we have 4 WiSMs (4.0.217.0) & about 200 APs installed. We have WCS (4.0.87) running on a very robust VM server. Cisco does not support WCS on VM at this time! WCS respond slowly in the VM environment. The reason we went this way was for fault tolerance and redundancy. We also have WCS (4.0.96) running on a standalone server as a test and the performance is excellent! At some point Cisco has to solve the VM issue because nobody will buy twice as many AP licenses to run 2 WCS Servers. For now as long as you have a backup of WCS it is very easy to install from scratch and restore! The bottom line is the WiSMs & APs will work without WCS. You can still manage the WiSMs & APs but would lose central monitoring of all WiSMs, APs, Clients, & misc Security features such as rogue APs, signature attacks, etc. Jeff Jeffrey M. Paynter Communications Analyst Lead University of Rochester Medical Center Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: 585.784.2405 ________________________________ From: Lee H Badman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 8:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco WCS- sparing/clustering With a rapidly growing wireless environment, WCS is getting to be more critical. Wondering what others may be doing to provide fault tolerance, backup, and/or failover for WCS server. Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer KC2IYK, CWNA/CWSP Information Technology and Services Syracuse University 315 443-3003 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
