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Mobility and the WM-AD Manager
Summit WM-Series WLAN Switch and Altitude Access Point Software Version 1.0 User Guide
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To support the Availability feature during a “Failover” event, administrator will need to perform the
following actions:
1 Monitor the critical messages for the “Failover mode” message, in the information log of the
remaining Summit WM-Series Switch (in the Reports and Displays area).
2 After recovery, on the Summit WM-Series Switch that did not fail, select the “foreign” Altitude APs
and click on the Release button (in the Altitude AP Configuration - AP Maintenance screen).
Mobility and the WM-AD Manager
The Summit WM-Series Switch Software system has a technique by which multiple Summit WM-Series
Switches on a network can discover each other and exchange information about a client session. This
enables a wireless device user to roam seamlessly between different Altitude APs on different Summit
WM-Series Switches.
The solution introduces the concept of a “WM-AD Manager”. This means that one Summit WM-Series
Switch on the network must be designated as the “WM-AD Manager”. All other Summit WM-Series
Switchs are designated as “WM-AD Agents”. To define whether the Summit WM-Series Switch is a
Manager or an Agent, use the WM-AD Manager screen in the Summit WM-Series Switch Configuration
area.
The wireless device will keep the IP address, WM-AD assignment and filtering rules that it received
from the Summit WM-Series Switch that it first connected to - its “home” Summit WM-Series Switch.
(This information is collected in the Active Clients by WM-AD display on the home Summit WM-Series
Switch.) The WM-AD on each Summit WM-Series Switch must have the same SSID. If the WM-AD has
static WEP, it is recommended that the same key be used.
NOTE
The “WM-ADManager” concept relies on SLP and DHCP. Before you begin, you must ensure that the DHCP server
on your network supports Option 78. These are also used during the Altitude AP discovery process, explained earlier
in this Guide.
VW-AD Manager and VW-AD Agent: Background
The Summit WM-Series Switch that is the “WM-AD Manager”:
uses SLP to register itself (as “ExtremeNet”) with the SLP Directory Agent
listens for connection attempts from “WM-AD Agents”
if it receives a connection attempt from “WM-AD Agent”, establishes connection and sends a
message to the “WM-AD Agent” specifying the Heartbeat interval, and the WM-AD Manager's IP
address
sends regular Heartbeat messages (which contain wireless device session changes and Agent
changes) to the WM-AD Agents and waits for an Update message back
if it fails to receive an Update from the WM-AD Agent after three Heartbeat messages, sends a
Disconnect message to the WM-AD Agent, removes all wireless device users associated with that
WM-AD Agent Summit WM-Series Switch from its tables and closes down the connection.
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