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Cisco Aironet 1100 Series Access Point Installation and Configuration Guide
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Chapter 18 Configuring Repeater and Standby Access Points
Configuring a Hot Standby Access Point
After you enable standby mode, configure the settings that you recorded from the monitored access point
to match on the standby access point.
Use this command to check the standby configuration:
show iapp standby-parms
This command displays the MAC address of the standby access point, the standby timeout, and the
poll-frequency values. If no standby access point is configured, this message
appears:
no iapp standby mac-address
Step 3
interface dot11radio 0
Enter interface configuration mode for the radio interface.
Step 4
ssid
ssid-string
Create the SSID that the standby access point uses to associate to
the monitored access point; in the next step designate this SSID
as an infrastructure SSID. If you created an infrastructure SSID
on the monitored access point, create the same SSID on the
repeater, also.
Step 5
infrastructure-ssid
[
optional
]
Designate the SSID as an infrastructure SSID. The standby uses
this SSID to associate to the monitored access point. If the
standby access point takes the place of the monitored access
point, infrastructure devices must associate to the standby access
point using this SSID unless you also enter the
optional
keyword.
Step 6
exit
Exit SSID configuration mode and return to radio interface
configuration mode.
Step 7
iapp standby poll-frequency
seconds
Sets the number of seconds between queries that the standby
access point sends to the monitored access point’s radio and
Ethernet ports.
Step 8
iapp standby timeout
seconds
Sets the number of seconds the standby access point waits for a
response from the monitored access point before it assumes that
the monitored access point has malfunctioned.
Step 9
show iapp standby-parms
Verify your entries. If the access point is in standby mode, this
command displays the standby parameters, including the MAC
address of the monitored access point and the poll-frequency and
timeout values. If the access point is not in standby mode,
no iapp
standby mac-address
appears.
Step 10
end
Return to privileged EXEC mode.
Step 11
copy running-config
startup-config
(Optional) Save your entries in the configuration file.
Command
Purpose