Chapter 3
C9800 Configuration Model
This chapter describes the new configuration model available on the Catalyst 9800 wireless controller series. Understanding how the new configuration constructs work is important because they represent the basis of the C9800 design, deployment, and troubleshooting that you will learn in the rest of the book.
In designing the Catalyst 9800 from scratch, Cisco decided to build a new configuration model to overcome some of the limitations of AireOS: Most of the changes in AireOS configuration would have a global network impact; AireOS doesn’t have a concept of location (physical or virtual), so it is not possible to limit configuration changes to a group of APs; the AireOS configuration is not reusable, and the ...
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