Thanks, Bruce- and everyone else who responded. Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Syracuse University 315 443-3003 ________________________________
From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Osborne, Bruce W. (NS) Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 5:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Big Aruba Environments- Management of multiple controllers Lee, Liberty University also uses Airwave in "monitor-only" mode for our Aruba controllers. In the Aruba controller architecture, there is typically one "master" controller & several "local" controllers. The master (This can be an HA pair) allows you to control most of the configuration from a central location. This controller also collects the RF information from the local controllers & performs the AP radio management decisions. Some of this database can be offloaded to Airwave. Vlan interface ip addresses, etc. need to be setup on each local controller. If you have too many controllers for one master,( I don't remember the number, but I can check if you wish) I believe Aruba has an appliance that can centralize the configuration for multiple masters. In our environment, the vast majority of toe configuration & AP provisioning is performed on the master controller. When you save the configuration, it is pushed out to the local controllers. Bruce Osborne Liberty University From: Lee H Badman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 9:55 AM Subject: Big Aruba Environments- Management of multiple controllers Wondering how bigger Aruba shops are centrally managing multiple controllers? From what I can tell right now, AirWave is pretty much an effective graphical monitoring tool, but is pretty anemic at configuration of Aruba. Am I missing something? -Lee Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer 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/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
