Activate license on cisco wireless controller
I have a Cisco Model 2504 wireless controller. I currently have 7 access points using the controller. I have purchased a new wireless access point, model AIR-CAP3702I-A-K9.
I purchased a license to add the controller. I added the license using the 'install license' command in CLI using tftp, and was notified the license was installed successfully.
I then restarted the router.
However when I connect the WAP to the controller with an ethernet cable it does not find the controller. The display light blinks alternately green and red.
When I use the show license all
command, I see the following:
License Store: Primary License Storage
StoreIndex: 0 Feature: base Version: 1.0
License Type: Permanent
License State: Active, Not in Use
License Count: Non-Counted
License Priority: Medium
License Store: Primary License Storage
StoreIndex: 1 Feature: base-ap-count Version: 1.0
License Type: Permanent
License State: Inactive
License Count: 5 / 0 (Active/In-use)
License Priority: Medium
License Store: Primary License Storage
StoreIndex: 2 Feature: base-ap-count Version: 1.0
License Type: Permanent
License State: Active, In Use
License Count: 7 /7 (Active/In-use)
License Priority: Medium
License Store: Evaluation License Storage
StoreIndex: 0 Feature: base-ap-count Version: 1.0
License Type: Evaluation
License State: Inactive
Evaluation total period: 12 weeks 6 days
Evaluation period left: 12 weeks 6 days
License Count: 75 / 0 (Active/In-use)
License Priority: None
I know that the second to last is the licenses I was already using, and the last is the evaluation licenses. I believe the license I installed is the second one, which says license count: 5/0 (Active/In-use)
.
How do I activate this license? How do I make the wireless access point connect to the controller?
I figured out what is going on. I had purchased and adder license, but if you just install it it only installs as a base-ap-license, which isn't what you want. I needed to create a new base-ap-license at Cisco, according to the directions here:
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless/controller/7-5/configuration-guide/b_cg75/b_cg75_chapter_011.pdf