
Availability and Session Availability
Session Availability
SCALANCE WLC711
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2. After recovery, on the secondary SCALANCE IWLAN Controller, select the foreign Wireless
APs, and then click Release on the Access Approval screen.
After the Wireless APs are released, they establish the active tunnel to their home controller and
backup tunnel to the secondary controller.
Enabling Session Availability
Session availability is supported when fast failover is enabled and when “Synchronize System
Configuration” is selected. For more information, see “Configuring Fast Failover and Enabling
Session Availability” on page 12-12.
In session availability, mobile user devices are able to retain their IP address. In addition, the
mobile user device does not have to have to re-associate after the failover. These characteristics
ensure that the failover is achieved within 5 seconds, which is fast enough to maintain the mobile
user’s session.
Note:
In session availability, the fast failover is achieved within 5 seconds only if there is at least one client device
(mobile unit) associated to the Wireless AP. In the absence of any client device, the Wireless AP takes more
time to failover since there is no need to preserve the user session.
The authentication state is not preserved during fast failover. If a WLAN Service requires
authentication, the client device must re-authenticate. However, in such a case, the session
availability is not guaranteed because authentication may require additional time during which
the user session may be disrupted.
Session availability is not supported in a WLAN Service that uses Captive Portal (CP)
authentication.
Session availability does not support user-specific filters as these filters are not shared between the
primary and secondary SCALANCE IWLAN Controllers.
Configuring Fast Failover and Enabling Session Availability
Before you configure the fast failover feature, ensure the following:
• The primary and secondary SCALANCE IWLAN Controllers are properly configured in
availability mode. For more information, see “Availability” on page 12-1.
• Both the primary and secondary SCALANCE WLC711 Controllers are running the most
recent SCALANCE WLC711 Convergence Software releases.
• A network connection exists between the two SCALANCE IWLAN Controllers.
• The Wireless APs are operating in availability mode.
• The deployment is designed in such a way that the service provided by the Wireless APs is
not dependent on which SCALANCE IWLAN Controller the APs associate with. For example,
the fast failover feature will not support the deployment in which the two SCALANCE
IWLAN Controllers in availability mode are connected via a WAN link.
• Both the primary and secondary SCALANCE IWLAN Controllers have equivalent upstream
access to the servers on which they depend. For example, both the controllers must have
access to the same RADIUS and DHCP servers.
• The users (client devices) that use DHCP must obtain their addresses from a DHCP Server
that is external to the SCALANCE IWLAN Controller.
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