Gateway 7001 Series User Manual

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You can re-enable cluster mode on a standalone access point. (See 

A cluster is formed when the first Gateway 7001 Series self-managed AP is configured. (See 

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If a cluster configuration policy is in place when a new access point is deployed, it attempts 
to rendezvous with an existing cluster.

If it is unable to locate a cluster, then it establishes a new cluster on its own.

If it locates a cluster but is rejected because the cluster is full, or the clustering policy is 
to ignore new access points, then the access point will deploy in standalone mode.

The upper limit of a cluster is eight access points. The Network Web administration page 
provides a real-time, visual indicator of the number of access points in the current cluster 
and warns when the cluster has reached capacity. (See 

If a cluster is present but is already full, new access points will deploy in standalone mode.

To make sure that the security of the cluster as a whole is equivalent to the security of a 
single access point, communication of certain data between access points in a cluster is 
done using Secure Sockets Layer (typically referred to as SSL) with private key encryption.

Both the cluster configuration file and the user database are transmitted among access 
points using SSL.

If you are making changes to the AP configuration that require a relatively large amount 
of processing (such as adding several new users), you may encounter a synchronization 
progress bar after clicking 

 on any of the Administration pages. The progress bar 

indicates that the system is busy performing an auto-synch of the updated configuration 
to all APs in the cluster. The Administration Web pages are not editable during the 
auto-synch.