Allied Telesis AT-WA7400/EU - Manual (Page 45)

AT-WA7400 Management Software User’s Guide
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Which Settings
are Shared as
Part of the
Cluster
Configuration
and Which Are
Not?
Most configuration settings that you define using the AT-WA7400
Management Software are propagated to cluster members as a part of the
cluster configuration.
Settings Shared in the Cluster Configuration
The cluster configuration includes:
ˆ Network name (SSID)
ˆ Administrator password
ˆ Configuration policy
ˆ User accounts and authentication
ˆ Wireless interface settings
ˆ Guest Welcome screen settings
ˆ Network Time Protocol (NTP) settings
ˆ Radio settings
Only Mode, Channel, Fragmentation Threshold, RTS Threshold and
Rate Sets are synchronized across the cluster. Beacon Interval, DTIM
Period, Maximum Stations, and Transmit Power do not cluster.
Note
When Channel Planning is enabled, the radio Channel is not
synched across the cluster. See “Stopping or Starting Automatic
Channel Assignment” on page 73.
ˆ Security settings
ˆ QoS queue parameters
ˆ MAC address filtering
Settings Not Shared by the Cluster
The settings not shared among clustered access points are the following,
most of which, by nature, must be unique:
ˆ IP addresses
ˆ MAC addresses
ˆ Location descriptions
ˆ Load balancing settings
ˆ WDS bridges
ˆ Ethernet (Wired) settings, including enabling or disabling guest access
ˆ Guest interface configuration