Wireless AP 420 deployment, please advise....

[Martha Fawhin]

Hi,

We have deployed a couple of hundred Procurve 420's AP's in my company and are having difficulty managing this.
Do you know if there is a central management solution that I can use as you have with Cisco. I would like to be able to automate changes, track RF's and perform all management from this one central device.

Also some of our users have devices that span several vlans and we are having issues when these devices move between the vlans e.g One are has both vlans 25 and 29 defined but once the wireless device picks up vlan 25, if it then moves to an area where vlan 29 is dominant it drops the connection.
Any advice would be much appreciated.

Cheers.

[cenk sasmaztin]

Hi Martha

my advice you ca use pcm+ & pmm software for central managemet procurve 420 access point device

http://www.hp.com/rnd/products/management/ProCurve_Mobility_Manager_2.0/overview.htm

http://www.hp.com/rnd/products/management/ProCurve_Manager_Plus/overview.htm

if I true understand

some users use and roam a few ssid
user connect vlan 25 ssid no free of problem a few minute same user disconnect vlan 25 ssid and he want connect vlan 29 ssid but not to be connection may be connection trun vlan 25

is this true ?

[Martha Fawhin]

Thanks for your response Cenk, it is much appreciated.
I will read up on the links and see whether this is approrpiate for our needs.

What we have is a situation where an area covered by a single AP has more than one vlan defined for the users in that section and I gave the example of vlans 25 and 29. When a user with a handheld device which has picked up an address in vlan 25 is unable to switch between vlans and connect to servers in the other vlans. Is there a way to trunk this somehow so more than one vlan is seen by the AP's?
There is no dedicated wireless vlan. All wired and wireless clients use the same vlans.

Thanks again,
Martha.

[cenk sasmaztin]

please send me on switch show run print and one access point show system and sh ssid index ? print

[cenk sasmaztin]

hi Martha sory I can't understand in full

what do you want please write more pure

[cenk sasmaztin]

you want sperate your network users with vlan

for example john user
john user must be vlan 25 member

john user connect network any switch or access point device go to vlan 25
and john user unable access other vlan

martha user must be vlan 11 member

martha user connect network any switch or access point go to vlan 11
and martha user able access all vlan for managemet and troubleshooting

you want use one ssid for operation

is this true

[Ryan_G]

I think your more looking for a managed solution. Unfortunately a 420 cannot be managed with a WESM (Wireless Edge services module) Card. You would need 210 access points or alike.

Alternatively you can now deploy n wireless in a managed environment via the 422 AP's (which are managed or unmanaged). This is the product supplied by Colubris which Procurve have brought. They too have there own Management module, and it is being ported to a WESM module for a 5400 or alike device like the g standards.