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Stacking Concepts, To set up a stack
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ProSAFE Wireless Controller WC7600 Stacking Concepts The wireless controller supports stacking of up to three units for management of up to 150 access points through purchased licensing (see Licenses on page 20). In a stack, one wireless controller functions as the master controller, and the other two wireless controllers function as slave controllers. The following figure shows a stacked configuration in which you can manage up to 150 access points: 1 2 Slave controller 50 AP license Slave controller 50 AP license 3 Master controller 50 AP license Figure 19. Stacking configuration The wireless controllers that you intend to make members of the stack must be connected over a wired connection. A switch or router can be located between the wireless controllers that are part of a stack. The following procedure described the high-level configuration steps to set up a stack. To set up a stack: 1. Configure the master controller, including the system settings, profiles, security settings, and wireless settings. 2. On each slave controller, configure the system settings only. 3. On the master controller, enable stacking and add all slave controllers to the stack. 4. On the master controller, synchronize the configurations to the slave controllers. The profiles, security settings, wireless settings, administrative user name and password, and firmware image of the master controller are synchronized to the slave controllers. The managed AP list of the master controller is not synchronized. 5. On each slave controller, run the Discovery Wizard to discover the access points that the slave controller must manage and add them to the managed AP list for the slave controller. After you have configured the stack, you can change profiles, security settings, and wireless settings on the master controller, synchronize these changes with the slave controllers, and let the slave controllers push the changes to the individual access points that they manage. Manage Stacking and Redundancy 228