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Cisco 5520 Wireless LAN Controller Deployment Guide

Introduction

Prerequisites

Product Overview

Cisco 5520 Controller Key Attributes

AP Platform Support

Platform Components

SFP Support

Image Specifications

Fault Tolerance Capability

Customer Replaceable Units

Link Aggregation (LAG)

Inter-Platform Mobility and Guest Anchor Support

Infrastructure Multicast

New Mobility and MC Support

Look and Feel of the Cisco 5520 Wireless LAN Controller

Out of Band Management on Service Port

Local EAP Support

Wired Guest Access Support

Summary of Contents for 5520

Page 1: ...ort 7 Platform Components 8 SFP Support 15 Image Specifications 16 Fault Tolerance Capability 16 Customer Replaceable Units 17 Link Aggregation LAG 18 Inter Platform Mobility and Guest Anchor Support 18 Infrastructure Multicast 18 New Mobility and MC Support 19 Look and Feel of the Cisco 5520 Wireless LAN Controller 19 Out of Band Management on Service Port 26 Local EAP Support 28 Wired Guest Acce...

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Page 4: ...s document Components Used This document is not restricted to specific software and hardware versions The information in this document is created from the devices in a specific lab environment All of the devices used in this document started with a cleared default configuration If your network is live make sure that you understand the potential impact of any command Conventions Refer to Cisco Tech...

Page 5: ...0 Hardware Capabilities 1 RU Chassis Height 20 Gbps Throughput 1500 AP Support 20 000 Client Support 2 x SFP Data Ports 40 C 65 C Storage Temperature 5 40 C Operating Temperature 10 90 non condensing Operating Humidity 770 W AC Power Options Cisco 5520 Controller Key Attributes Some of the key attributes of the Cisco 5520 controller are High AP scale 1500 APs in 1 RU High client density 20 000 cli...

Page 6: ... type All AP modes All AP modes All AP modes Operational Modes 1000 APs 15 000 clients 500 APs 7000 clients 1500 APs 20 000 clients Maximum Scale 100 1000 12 500 1 1500 AP Count Range CISL based CISL based Right to Use with EULA Licensing Internal connections to the Catalyst Backplanes 8 x 1 G ports 2 x 10 G ports Connectivity AC DC Catalyst chassis redundant PSU option AC redundant PSU option 770...

Page 7: ...Roaming Clients Max PMK Cache Feature support unless otherwise specified will be the same as in 8510 Note AP Platform Support The Cisco 5520 supports the following access point models 1260 3500 600 1600 2600 3600 1700 2700 3700 OEAP 600 702I 702W Cisco 891 series integrated services router and Cisco 881 series integrated services router 1530 1552WU 1550 1570 1040 1140 1260 support extended to 8 1 ...

Page 8: ...on push switch with integrated LED is located on the front panel Table 3 Power On Switch and LED Indicator Function LED Indicator Color Card Power Status Bi color Yellow Amber Green Decode State Card Power Off Off Soft Off Amber On Card Power On Green On Locator Switch and LED Indicator A Unit Identify push switch with integrated LED is available on the front panel and rear panel Each press on the...

Page 9: ...LED located on front panel indicates the fan health Table 5 Fan Status LED Indicator Function LED Indicator Color Fan Status Bi color Yellow Amber Green Decode State Undefined Off Fans are operating and no error condition has been detected Green On Fans are in a degraded operational state One of N fans has a fault Amber On Critical fault state Two or more fans has a fault Amber Blinking Adaptive f...

Page 10: ... UCR threshold Amber On One or more temperature sensors reaches UNR threshold Amber Blinking Power Supply Status LED Indicator The power supply status LED is located on the front panel and indicates proper functioning of the power supply Table 7 Power Supply Status LED Indicator Function LED Indicator Color AC Power Supply Status Bi color Yellow Amber Green Decode State Undefined Off AC power supp...

Page 11: ...orts but no activity Green On Activity on any of the ports Green Blinking Front Panel KVM Break out Connector A single female connector provides access to video two USB ports for keyboard and mouse and an RS 232C console serial port An external breakout connector to industry standard interfaces is required The following figure shows an example cable The interfaces for the cable are 1 Front panel K...

Page 12: ...USB ports 2 IMC port 10 100 1000 Base T To setup the CIMC interface Connect the CIMC cable To enable DHCP to set the IP use the command imm dhcp enable If DHCP is not available use the command imm address ip address net mask gateway ip To view the IP and details use the command imm summary 12 ...

Page 13: ...000 Base T 5 Redundancy Port RP Function LED Indicator Color Management Interface Port Speed Bi color Yellow Amber Green Decode State Link Speed 10 MbpS Off Link Speed 100 MbpS Amber On Link Speed 1 GbpS Green On Function LED Indicator Color Management Interface Port Status Bi color Yellow Amber Green Decode State No Link Off Link Green On Traffic Present Blinking 6 VGA Connector Rear panel has a ...

Page 14: ...talled in port 1 and the system needs to be rebooted Conversely if an SFP module is installed and the user wants to switch to 4 x 10 G mode then an SFP module must be installed in port 1 and the WLC rebooted Thus Online Insertion and Removal OIR of SFP and SFP between 10 G and 1 G is not possible OIR of 10 G to 10 G and 1 G and 1 G is possible It is recommended to have all ports as either 10 G or ...

Page 15: ...0G to 10G SFP Support Network ports for 5520 WLC support the following Cisco SFP SFP modules GLC T SFP 10G SR SFP 10G LR SFP 10G LRM SFP H10GB CU1M SFP H10GB CU2M SFP H10GB CU2 5M SFP H10GB CU3M SFP H10GB CU5M SFP H10GB ACU7M SFP H10GB ACU10M SFP 10G AOC7M SFP H10GB CU1 5M SFP 10G AOC3M SFP 10G AOC1M SFP 10G AOC2M SFP 10G AOC5M SFP 10G AOC10M GLC LH GLC EX SMD GLC SX MMD SFP 10G SR S SFP 10G LR S ...

Page 16: ...redundancy with one controller in active state and a second controller in hot standby state The SSO model monitors the health of the active controller via a redundant HA port Cisco 5520 wireless LAN controller has a failover RP Port The configuration on the active controller is synched to the standby controller via the redundant port In HA both controllers share the same set of configuration inclu...

Page 17: ...ir and spread the links in each port channel between the two physical switches to prevent a WLC switchover upon a failure of one of the VSS switches Customer Replaceable Units Cisco 5520 wireless LAN controller has a minimal amount of separate orderable items including all of the following 17 ...

Page 18: ...hor which is a Cisco WLC 2504 5508 8510 7510 WISM2 EOIP Tunnel Cisco 5520 8540 WLC EOIP Tunnel Cisco 5760 WLC with new mobility turned on CAPWAP Tunnel CAPWAP has native management plane encryption and optional data payload encryption Infrastructure Multicast Multicast support is enabled in the Cisco 5520 controller with the following restrictions If all APs on the 5520 controller are configured i...

Page 19: ...sco 5520 controller enables console redirect by default with baud rate 9600 simulating a VT100 terminal with no flow control The 5520 Controller has the same boot sequence as existing controller platforms Boot Up and Initial Configuration Initial Boot Sequence Boot Options Loading the OS and Boot Loader Loading Controller Services Initial Controller Configuration Configuration Wizard As with all o...

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Page 23: ...Monitoring and Best Practices This platform supports the Monitoring Dashboard and the Upgrade audit workflow view 23 ...

Page 24: ...The following screenshot is the Best Practices Audit workflow page Management Web UI The management web interface has the same look and feel as existing Cisco wireless LAN controllers 24 ...

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Page 26: ...ment services HTTP HTTPS web based access SNMP polling v2 and v3 Syslog SSH or Telnet Transfer download and upload These services shall be supported in a non HA topology only in this release Service Port The service port is a 10 100 1000 Base T management port located on the rear panel Port 4 in the figure below shows the Service Port on the Cisco 5520 Wireless LAN Controller 26 ...

Page 27: ...rface address service port ip address netmask To add an IPv4 route to allow out of band management of the controller from a remote workstation config route add network ip address ip netmask gateway To remove the IPv4 route on the controller config route delete network ip address Use the following commands to define the Service port interface with an IPv6 address To configure the service port using...

Page 28: ...ities IT managers can provide wired and wireless secured and controlled access to the Internet for guests on the same wireless LAN controller Guest users must be allowed to connect to designated Ethernet ports and access the guest network as configured by the administrator after they complete the configured authentication methods Wireless guest users can easily connect to the WLAN Controllers with...

Page 29: ...nt Smart Licensing is also available for more information refer to http www cisco com c en us td docs wireless technology mesh 8 2 b_Smart_Licensing_Deployment_Guide html License Types These are the three license types Permanent licenses The AP count is programmed into NVM while manufacturing These licenses are transferable Adder access point count licenses Can be activated through the acceptance ...

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