Cisco Cisco IOS XE 3.5E

Local  Auth

Local auth is an authentication method that allows 
users and wireless clients to be authenticated 
locally on the switch/controller. It is designed for 
use in remote offices that want to maintain 
connectivity to wireless clients when the backend 
system becomes disrupted or the external 
authentication server goes down.

Internal DHCP Server

The controllers contain an internal DHCP server. 
This server is typically used in branch offices that 
do not already have a DHCP server. The internal 
server provides DHCP addresses to wireless 
clients.

New Hierarchical Mobility

Allows a client to roam seamlessly between 
AireOS controllers running the maintenance 
Release 7.3.112.0 or Release 7.5 and Cisco 
controllers running Cisco IOS Release 3.2.xSE.

Web GUI

A web browser, or graphical user interface (GUI), 
is built into each controller. It allows multiple 
users to simultaneously browse into the controller 
HTTP or HTTPS (HTTP over SSL) management 
pages to configure parameters and monitor the 
operational status for the controller and its 
associated access points.

AP Priority

During installation, we recommend that you 
connect all lightweight access points to a 
dedicated controller, and configure each 
lightweight access point for final operation. This 
step configures each lightweight access point for 
a primary, secondary, and tertiary controller. 
When sufficient controllers are deployed, if one 
controller fails, active access point client sessions 
are momentarily dropped while the dropped 
access point associates with another controller, 
which allows the client device to immediately 
reassociate and reauthenticate. 

AP Priming

If the access point was previously associated to a 
controller, the IP addresses of the primary, 
secondary, and tertiary controllers are stored in 
the access point's nonvolatile memory. This 
process of storing controller IP addresses on an 
access point for later deployment is called 
priming the access point.