I agree that nobody is perfect, but my 2900+ Aruba APs are all running smoothly this semester.
Bruce Osborne Wireless Engineer IT Network Operations - Wireless (434) 592-4229 LIBERTY UNIVERSITY Training Champions for Christ since 1971 From: Lee H Badman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 1, 2016 8:37 AM Subject: Re: Odd incident on our 8540 Controllers- wondering if anyone has seen similar? Bruce, in all fairness, I do hear Aruba, Ruckus, Xirrus, Meraki, etc all taking their share of criticism from those who use/install each in quantity. That doesn't absolve Cisco of their long-running code quality issues, but I don't think there is free lunch in this space. Everyone's trying to out-feature everyone else and simple Wi-Fi has gotten lost in the noise. It would take me 2 MAN YEARS just to replace APs at this point, and millions of $$ to "just switch". Changing is not that simple, unfortunately, when you're very very large. But I would absolutely freakin love it if every vendor's magic was confined to just the controllers, and ALL access points were white box. Fed up with Vendor X? Jump to Y by just changing the magic but leaving the APs in place because they are white box fantasy nodes! If only... Lee Badman | Network Architect (CWDP, CWNA, CWSP, Mobility+) Information Technology Services 206 Machinery Hall 120 Smith Drive Syracuse, New York 13244 t 315.443.3003 f 315.443.4325 e [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> w its.syr.edu SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY syr.edu From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Osborne, Bruce W (Network Services) Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2016 7:42 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Odd incident on our 8540 Controllers- wondering if anyone has seen similar? Lee, Time to reconsider Aruba. Unless you need the "bleeding edge" features, you rarely get caught with emergency upgrades. (Aruba calls them C-Builds or custom builds.) Bruce Osborne Wireless Engineer IT Network Operations - Wireless (434) 592-4229 LIBERTY UNIVERSITY Training Champions for Christ since 1971 From: Lee H Badman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 9:37 PM Subject: Re: Odd incident on our 8540 Controllers- wondering if anyone has seen similar? And- we have a code bug! Who would have thought? Emergency upgrade time... seems like once a semester minimally, we trade one set of bugs for a newer, more exciting set. Grrr. Lee Badman | Network Architect (CWDP, CWNA, CWSP, Mobility+) Information Technology Services 206 Machinery Hall 120 Smith Drive Syracuse, New York 13244 t 315.443.3003 f 315.443.4325 e [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> w its.syr.edu SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY syr.edu ________________________________ From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Lee H Badman <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 11:52 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Odd incident on our 8540 Controllers- wondering if anyone has seen similar? We're on 8.2.111. From the TAC case notes: We have an 8540 in SSO failover pair config. No changes have been made to the environment in several weeks. With 3,100 APs and 20K clients, we experienced the following condition on multiple secure AND open WLANs that all go to different VLANs: Certain clients- no common type or OS across them- would struggle with select https web page loads while other clients had no problems on same WLANs and same destinations. No problems at all with auth, association, other web sites. And no problems with the target web servers. After hours of troubleshooting, we forced failover to redundant 8540, problem immediately cleared despite all "stateful" failover operations working as they should. Is there a known bug in play here? Just wondering if this occurrence rings any bells for anyone? -Lee Badman ********** 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/. ********** 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/.
