Altitude 4600 Series Access Point Installation Guide
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Basic 4600 Series Configuration
Establishing Basic AP Connectivity
This section defines the steps required to establish basic AP connectivity with an
Extreme Networks Summit
®
WM3000 series controller.
Prerequisites for connecting an Altitude 4600 Series Access Point to a controller include:
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Ensure your controller has an appropriate access point capacity license.
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Ensure the controller is up and running on the network and is reachable from the
network on which the AP is installed.
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Refer to the controller installation guide and
Summit WM3000 Series Controller System
Reference Guide
for details.
Access Point Controller Adoption
Access point adoption is the process of a controller accepting the access point’s device
radios for use within the controller managed network. The access point’s radio(s)
encapsulates every packet and sends them to the controller.
When the controller and the AP are in same Layer 2 domain, the AP can discover the
controller and gets adopted by the controller automatically. It is plug-n-play and no
other configuration is required. If the AP and controller are across a subnet, the process
defined in the next paragraph is required for AP adoption.
The Altitude 4600 Series Access Point and WLAN controller support standard and
vendor specific DHCP options which can be supplied from a DHCP server to the
Altitude 4600 Series Access Point operating as a DHCP client. The DHCP options can be
enabled on the DHCP server to automate management functions such as firmware
image and configuration file updates as well as provide the necessary information to an
access point for automatic controller discovery allowing for plug and play access point
deployment.