AP Provisioning and Swapping

In this section:

1. Provisioning and Swapping Access Points
   The controller supports the provisioning and swapping of access points.
2. Options for Provisioning and Swapping APs
   The controller supports the provisioning and swapping of access points.
3. Approving Access Points
   Access Points (APs) must be approved to join the system. The APs can be approved either automatically or manually.
4. Working with AP Registration Rules
   Registration rules enable the controller to assign an AP to an AP zone automatically based on the rule that the AP matches.
5. Creating an AP MAC OUI Address
   To create the MAC OUI address for an AP, perform the following -
6. ZD Migration
7. AP Switchover
8. Switch Over Managed APs and External DPs
   5.1 Update - reused across platforms

   Switchover helps move APs / external DPs between clusters that are not confined to cluster, which enable cluster redundancy. For normal clusters you can switchover APs regardless of staging zone with firmware version 5.0 or later and external DPs with version 5.1 or later. For a standby cluster in cluster redundancy, APs in Staging Zone can only be moved to another cluster by switchover. You can switch over per AP or APs per Zone. However, you can switch over only per data plane.
9. Rehoming Managed APs
   5.0 Update
10. Rebalancing APs
    AP rebalancing helps distribute the AP load across nodes that exist within a cluster.
11. Triggering a Preferred Node
    You can trigger an AP that belongs to the current zone force go to their preferred node. For this, you must enable Node affinity, which gives AP the priority of preferred nodes.
12. Configuring Node Affinity