Alcatel-Lucent AOS-W 6.5.3.x - Before You Deploy an AP; Enable Switch Discovery

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Before you Deploy an AP
Before you install APs in a network environment, you must ensure that the APs are able to locate and connect
to the switch. Specifically, you must configure firewall settings to allow APs to obtain software images and
configuration settings from the switch, verify APs are able to locate the switch, and verify each AP is assigned a
valid IP address when connected to the network. If you want to provision APs with more than one interface,
you can also configure the USB settings and interface priority levels using an AP provisioning profile.
The following steps describe the basic pre-deployment tasks. Click any of the links for more information on
these procedures.
1. Configure Firewall Settings
2. Enable Switch Discovery
3. Enable DHCP
4. (Optional) Define the AP Provisioning Profile
5. Define a virtual AP profile, and assign that profile to an AP group
Mesh AP Preconfiguration
Mesh APs require the following additional steps to define the mesh networking environment.
n Define and configure the mesh cluster profile.
n Define and configure the mesh radio profile
Remote AP Preconfiguration
Remote APs require the following additional step to identify valid APs in the remote AP whitelist.
n Create a Remote AP whitelist
Enable Switch Discovery
An AP can discover the IP address of the switch from a DNS server, from a DHCP server, or using the
AlcatelDiscovery Protocol (ADP).
At boot time, the AP builds a list of switch IP addresses and then tries these addresses in order until it
successfully reaches a switch . This list of IP addresses provides an enhanced redundancy scheme for switches
that are located in multiple data centers separated across Layer-3 networks. The AP constructs its list of switch
addresses as follows:
n If the master provisioning parameter is set to a DNS name, that name is resolved and all resulting
addresses are put on the list. If master is set to an IP address, that address is put on the list.
n If the master provisioning parameter is not set and a switch address was received in DHCP Option 43, that
address is put on the list.
n If the master provisioning parameter is not set and no address was received via DHCP option 43, ADP is
used to discover a switch address and that address is put on the list.
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