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  • 1.  Difference between Mobility Master and Mobility controller

    Posted Feb 13, 2023 11:54 AM

    Hi folks, 

    I am learning Aruba 8.0 WLC, I am confused with Mobility Master and Mobility controller, I have go through available documents but still not clear the purpose of mobility master.

    Can someone please explain here.

    Thanks,

    M. Nigar Khan



  • 2.  RE: Difference between Mobility Master and Mobility controller

    Posted Feb 13, 2023 12:49 PM

    The Mobility Master (now being called the Mobility Conductor) enabled many new features in AOSv8, and is required for Live Upgrades, AirMatch, Centralized AirGroup, etc..

    Take a read here for some more information, or reply with any questions you may have: https://www.arubanetworks.com/techdocs/ArubaOS_8.11.0_Web_Help/Content/arubaos-solutions/config-hierarchy/mm-conf-hier.htm



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  • 3.  RE: Difference between Mobility Master and Mobility controller

    Posted Feb 14, 2023 11:45 AM

    Hi

    The Mobility Master (Changed to Mobility Conductor) is an appliance where you can push the config to the controllers. Mobility conductors cannot terminate APs. As a Dustin said, you can enable a many features when you use a Mobility Conductor. Ej. Airmatch, cluster active-active, live upgrades, etc.

    The Mobility Controllers terminate the APs and obtain the config from Mobility Conductor (if the controllers are associated with it). In other case can work as a standalone controller.




  • 4.  RE: Difference between Mobility Master and Mobility controller

    Posted Feb 16, 2023 11:13 AM

    Hi FerC,

    Thanks for your response.

    As you said, we can push the configuration from Mobility Master to Mobility Controller so it means MM must required for Aruba setup and we can't use only MC.

    If we can use MC without MM so what is the benefit of MM.




  • 5.  RE: Difference between Mobility Master and Mobility controller

    Posted Feb 16, 2023 11:21 AM

    The MCR (Mobility Conductor) allows first and foremost the ability to utilize centralized configuration that can be applied to multiple Managed Devices (MD, the controllers that are being managed by the MCR).  There are several features, like Clusters and Live Upgrade, that require that an MCR be used for management.

    If you have no need for the features and functionality of the MCR then you can definitely run a controller in 'Standalone' mode, and this is documented in the User Guide.



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