Enhanced Discovery can be used to enhance support of onboarding for Local Management (within ExtremeCloud IQ) providing an option to define the list of primary and secondary controllers running ExtremeCloud IQ Controller.
For deployments that do not have a local network configuration for discovery, we offer an enhanced AP onboarding experience that provides indication of the specific IP address or Fully-Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) of the controllers to which the AP connects.
With Enhanced Discovery, the user assigns a selection of APs to be managed by a specific controller (or high availability pair) as part of the conversion to local operating system. Once the AP boots into the local WiNG operating system, if the discovery override is defined, the AP automatically connects to the indicated controller, bypassing the traditional discovery methods.
Universal APs are configured for cloud management by default. To manage these APs locally, select Local Management when onboarding the APs in ExtremeCloud IQ.
In a remote deployment, you can configure the IP addresses or FQDNs of the primary and secondary controllers for local management. First, the AP uses a REST API call to connect to ExtremeCloud IQ. The API response includes the configured controller IP addresses. After the AP successfully adopts to ExtremeCloud IQ Controller, the access point reboots to the local management persona.
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Enhanced Discovery is supported on AP3000 and ExtremeCloud IQ Controller.