Cisco WLC 8540 HA Timer

Dear Experts,

I prepare a project for a wireless solution Documentation and we use wlc 8540 in HA mode. For HA, WLC will send keepalive updates on each 100msec to check the unit of the Hotstandby State via the RP Port. But in the documentation, I am obliged to put the correct failover time. So can I assume that the 101st msec, failover happen? and for that I need to provide some docs cisco which mentions exact switching timers.

can you please guide me on this. ?

see you soon,

Thank you

Waqas

Hi Waqas,

Try this document: high availability Tech Note

The time it takes for failover in the event of power failure on an Active zone also depends on the Keepalive timer configured on the WLC (configured for 100 msec by default). The algorithm to determine the failover is listed here:

  • The WLC Eve sends Keepalive to the WLC Active and waits for and acknowledgement within 100 msec according to the default timer. This can be configured in varies from 100 to 400 ms.
  • If there is no recognition of Keepalive in 100 msec, WLC Eve immediately sends an ICMP message to the active WLC via redundant management interface to verify if it is a failover of the box or some problem with redundant connection Port.
  • If there is no response to the ICMP message, the WLC Eve gets aggressive and immediately sends another Keepalive message to the WLC Eve and expected receipt of 25% less time (i.e. 75 ms or 25% less than 100 msec).
  • If there is no recognition of Keepalive in 75 msec, the WLC Eve immediately sends another ICMP message to the active WLC via redundant management interface.
  • Yet once, if there is no answer for the second ICMP message, the WLC Standby gets more aggressive and immediately sends another Keepalive message to the WLC standby and waiting for an acknowledgement in extra time 25% Real Timer less than the last Keepalive timer (i.e. 50 msec or last Keepalive timer of 75 MS - 25% less of 100 msec).
  • If there is no acknowledgement of the third package Keepalive less than 50 msec, the WLC Eve immediately sends another ICMP message to the active WLC via redundant management interface.
  • Finally, if there is no response from the third package ICMP, Standby WLC says the WLC Active died and the role of the WLC assets.

Network failover

In the case of a failover of network (i.e. the WLC Active cannot reach its gateway for some reason any), it may take 3-4 seconds for a complete failover based on the number of access points in the network.

See you soon,.

Ric

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