Cisco 3504 WLC Overview and Setup

so I just got my brand-new cisco 3504 wireless LAN controller in this is the upgraded version to the 2504 and if your guy show you guys around the box a little bit and then I'd get into some configuration how you get it configured straight out of the box so the first thing I'll show you is the front of it here we'll go over what the ports look like so starting on the left side I've got two ports top and bottom the top port here is your out-of-band management port or your service port this is crucial when you're initially setting up the box because what happens is you plug into this and power it on and the controller actually sets up a DHCP server in there your machine gets a I P address off of this and then you can configure it using the GUI straight off this port here so I'll show you guys how to do that in a little bit here underneath it that's your redundancy port so if I had another 3504 box next to this one here I can connect to this port here to the other port on the other 3504 and I can run these boxes in an H ad pair next to that is your console port this is the same console port that Cisco's had on all their boxes since the beginning of time probably next to that is a USB console port so that's actually kind of nice you get rid of the the USB dongle with the serial connector and everything so that's what those two ports are next to that I've got my USB port what we can use that for is upgrading code on the 3504 so I have the TFTP anything to this box if I didn't if I didn't want to I didn't have a DHCP server set up I can get a memory stick load the new version of code on there pop it in and then ingest it through the GUI right onto the controller through that cord there next to that is a nun gig port that's a multi gigabit ethernet port first controller I've seen this on and one of the first Cisco devices I've actually had that that had an MD port on it what this allows us to do is I can connect this to a Cisco switch at one gig two-and-a-half gig five gig or 10 gig and getting up to five gig I can use regular cat 5e cable and if I wanted to but I can get up to five gig on there between this box and my Cisco switch next to that guy there is 4 1 gig Ethernet ports the last 2 ports here supports 3 & 4 those do support Power over Ethernet so if I do have a small branch office and I want to plug the EPS directly into this guy I've got my last 2 ports right there that that'll support the access points there 802 dot 380 power so you can plug directly into there and they will power all the latest Cisco access points flip this guy around here and on the back and you'd see the heatsink sticking out a little bit here and then we've got the power connector right there here's the power brick guys the skulls right here it's kind of special adapter here special cable that goes in and and that's how you power the unit Kensington lock slide on there I guess in case you're worried about getting stolen at all in the branch office but that's their overall really compact box really nice-looking so it's gonna did a good job in just physically designing this thing so what else did that Cisco do when they upgraded from the 2504 to the 3504 so first thing on here is more power so instead of one gigabit per second on the 2504 this thing is now capable of doing four gigabits per second through the controller great for all the new access points out there that are pushing one two and a half gig on them this box can handle a couple of them right on here great again for a small office they've increased he capacity of this box it supports up to 150 access points on it and up to 3,000 clients on this box the other thing that we did that that I kind of liked is the increase in the Flex connector oops so now I can have up to 100 flex connect groups on this with a hundred ATP's in each flex connector so talked a little bit about the Box show you guys with the ports are and how this thing comes together now I'll show you guys some of the configurations so like I said before take this thing out of the box plug your computer in here via ether in the top service port and turn it on and I'll show you guys how to configure this thing alright guys so I've got my box plugged in it has power and it hooked up the network connections here so again make sure your computer is plugged into the service port here at the top and when you're plugging this box into the switch make sure you use port 1 on your Gigabit Ethernet ports right here the reason you're gonna want to use port 1 is we're initially setting this up the AP manager AP manager is how the access points actually communicate with the box and send traffic back and forth that's defaulted to port 1 here you could set it up on other ports or put this in a lag after but for the initial setup make sure that this box is connected into your switch if you have port 1 or else the EPs won't talk to the controller properly so you've got that all set up and I'll show you on my pewter here that we did indeed pull a IP address I pulled a 192 168 1.3 if you're using documentation to set this up I did notice that some of the documentation Cisco provided they actually had the wrong subnet here they had a 192 168 0 that X network I contacted a couple people I think they're gonna get that changed but this is what the controller gives out so it's giving out addresses on the 192 168 1 Network the other thing that I wanted to point out before we get into the configuration here is going over the release notes for the 8.5 one of the things you'll notice here is we did get rid of support for a lot of the older access points on this so if you do have some older access points floating around you're gonna want to check the 8.5 release notes to make sure that they're not affected here we're going back to as far back as a 1600 and it's another old one like the 3500 here's about the oldest so those I mean they're still pretty old they're probably at least 5 to 7 years old if I had a guess but if you've got it in the older like 1200 series or 1100 series access points definitely not supported anymore in the newer versions of arrow s code 8.5 is the first version of code that the 3504 supports so you can't run eight for on and you can't run eight two or eight one or a toe on it it starts at 8.5 so that's important to make sure you check the release notes and make sure that your EPS that you have are supported alright so let's get started here so you go back to your IP addressing here you see you pulled a 1.3 the default router is 1.1 that's the address that we're gonna use to actually talk to the controller here so I'm gonna go to the top 9 to 168 1.1 and here's your initial Express configuration here so choose a username just gonna be some simple admin password and start system name so give your controller a name here we're just gonna call it test 1 controller you can set up your time and date and all that in here ntp server optional management IP address so this is your in band management IP address information so how do you want to reach your controller through the network not the service port so we're gonna do a 192 what's 128 149 hopefully that dress is not take it I might network put your subnet mask in there 191 default gateway management VLAN ID if you need that I right now I'm just gonna leave that blank next and then it's gonna ask you to create your wireless networks so I'm just gonna put my first one in here tests corporate will call it and we'll put in a wpa2 personal so that you're appreciated key and putting your passwords there it passphrases next again and your virtual IP address mobility group all this stuff you could you could always change his later your virtual IP addresses and really an address its local to the controller it's not a non routed address you can leave this sometimes I use 1.1.11 the only time you really ever see it is if you're using the guest splash page it'll pop up in the browser again leave it if you want to or change it to something again that's just not routable next and apply and okay so what's gonna happen is the controller is gonna configure itself it's gonna reboot and then plug your EP in should find the controller and everything should come up I'll plug in my ap real quick just so we can verify that it works and that's basically all there is to configuring this thing so my controller rebooted all the configuration is good on there my AP came up I plugged it in and you can see the green light on there that means that the EP is functional whatever you talk to see on the camera the green light what there's a green light on it solid green means it's it's connected to a controller there's no clients on it when you attach a client that light should go blue so we'll log in here real quick when where I put that IP address on here for the management so 192 168 128 149 we'll go to that we'll login now this is where you put in your credentials that you just created and if you haven't been in a Cisco control in a long time there's actually this new splash page that they put up beforehand before you get into actually the configuration and everything and you can do some configuration from here they've got a best practices guide they kind of make it look all you know web 2.0 ish but to get back to the old school stuff just click advanced here at the top and now you're in it so you can see the controller right here I just went over what all these ports wore and everything you can see this is the port where I'm attached to my switch please scroll down I can see that I have the EP attached to it you can tell by that right there if I check out my Mac sure enough there's that test CSS ID that we created so we can click on that if we want to and well again my passphrase in and we should be good to go there you go so you can see now I'm connected I've got an IP address and just for kicks should I go into Yahoo real quick and that's it that's the new 3504 controller with an access point attached to it and how quick and easy it is to set it up thanks a lot guys

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Length: 11min 54sec (714 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 26 2017