User's Manual

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A31003-W1050-U100-2-7619, March 2008
HiPath Wireless Controller, Access Points and Convergence Software V5 R1 , C20/C2400 User Guide
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Availability, mobility, and controller functionality
Availability overview
7 Availability, mobility, and controller functionality
This chapter describes the availability and mobility concepts, including:
Availability overview
Mobility manager
Defining management users
Configuring network time
Configuring Check Point event logging
Enabling SNMP
Using controller utilities
Configuring Web session timeouts
The HiPath Wireless Controller provides additional functionality including:
Availability – Maintains service availability in the event of a HiPath Wireless
Controller outage
Mobility – Allows multiple HiPath Wireless Controllers on a network discover
each other and exchange information about a client session. A maximum of
up to 12 controllers can be linked to allow users to transparently roam across
controllers in the mobility domain.
7.1 Availability overview
The HiPath Wireless Controller, Access Points and Convergence Software
system provides this feature to maintain service availability in the event of a
HiPath Wireless Controller outage.

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