CCNA Wireless 640-722 Official Cert Guide

Converting an Autonomous AP

Autonomous APs can be useful in remote sites, small offices, or homes where centralized management is not necessary or practical. In larger environments, a centralized or unified approach is more common. Sometimes you might face a hybrid scenario, where some legacy autonomous APs still exist in a centrally managed network. In that case, you might need to either replace the AP hardware or convert its software image so that it can join the wireless controllers that manage the network. In fact, Cisco expects a CCNA Wireless engineer to know how to convert an autonomous AP to a “lightweight” version that can join a controller.

To convert an AP, you can use one of the following methods, which are described in the subsequent ...