Cisco Wireless Controller 5508 Configuration Step by Step – Part 1 (CLI and GUI Access, Upgrade)

As the industry’s most deployed controller, the Cisco 5500 Series Wireless Controller provides the highest performance, security, and scalability to support business communications today and in the future.
Cisco 5500 Series Wireless Controller
• Support for up to 500 access points and 7000 clients
• 8-Gbps throughput, eight 1 Gigabit Ethernet ports, with Link Aggregation Group (LAG)
support
• Standalone, rack-mountable appliance

5508 Front Panel

Note: Service Port is the one above Redundancy Port.

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Benefits include:
• Seamless, high-quality mobile experience: Efficient roaming capabilities help ensure consistent experience on any smart mobile device with voice and video applications.
• Reliability: Cisco 5500 Series Wireless Controllers provide industry-leading IPv6 roaming with secure access.
• Flexibility to pay as you grow: The Cisco 5500 Series offers software license flexibility to add additional access points as business requirements change.
• Versatility: Supports advanced services for any network use case, campus or branch, including Cisco OfficeExtend solutions for secure mobile teleworking and Cisco Enterprise Wireless Mesh solutions, which allow access points to dynamically establish wireless connections in hard-to-connect locations.

1. Booting Terminal Outputs:

WLCNG Boot Loader Version 1.0.20 (Built on Jan  9 2014 at 19:02:44 by cisco) Board Revision 1.3 (SN: FCW2016B091, Type: AIR-CT5508-K9) (G) Verifying boot loader integrity… OK. OCTEON CN5645-NSP pass 2.1, Core clock: 600 MHz, DDR clock: 330 MHz (660 Mhz data rate) FPGA Revision 1.7 Env FW Revision 1.8 USB Console Revision 2.2 CPU Cores:  10 DRAM:  1024 MB Flash: 32 MB Clearing DRAM…….. done Network: octeth0′, octeth1   ‘ – Active interface   E – Environment MAC address override CF Bus 0 (IDE): OK  IDE device 0:  – Model: SGEFD1GHB9P1D221 Firm: FW981 Ser#: STP194512FP  – Type: Hard Disk  – Capacity: 977.4 MB = 0.9 GB (2001888 x 512) Press <ESC> now to access the Boot Menu… Loading primary image (7.4.121.0) 100%  34583665 bytes read Launching… init started: BusyBox v1.6.0 (2010-05-13 17:50:10 EDT) multi-call binary starting pid 840, tty ”: ‘/etc/init.d/rcS’ Set PLX switch MPS settings ………….!!!!!!! Detecting Hardware … set smp_affinity for irq 48 003f DP from CGE5.0 … starting pid 1086, tty ‘/dev/ttyS0’: ‘/usr/bin/gettyOrMwar’ Setting up ZVM Exporting LD_LIBRARY_PATH Cryptographic library self-test….passed! XML config selected Validating XML configuration octeon_device_init: found 1 DPs readCPUConfigData: cardid 0x6070001 Cisco is a trademark of Cisco Systems, Inc. Software Copyright Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco AireOS Version 7.4.121.0 Firmware Version FPGA 1.7, Env 1.8, USB console 2.2 Initializing OS Services: ok Initializing Serial Services: ok Initializing Network Services: ok Initializing Licensing Services: ok License daemon start initialization….. License daemon running….. Starting Statistics Service: ok Starting ARP Services: ok Starting Trap Manager: ok Starting Network Interface Management Services: ok Starting System Services: ok Starting FIPS Features: ok : Not enabled Starting Fastpath Hardware Acceleration: ok Starting Fastpath Console redirect : ok Starting Fastpath DP Heartbeat : ok Fastpath CPU0.00: Starting Fastpath Application. SDK-1.8.0, build 269. Flags-[DUTY CYCLE] : ok Fastpath CPU0.00: Initializing last packet received queue. Num of cores(10) Fastpath CPU0.00: Init MBUF size: 1856, Subsequent MBUF size: 2040 Fastpath CPU0.00: Core 0 Initialization and FIPS self-test: ok Fastpath CPU0.00: Initializing Timer… Fastpath CPU0.00: Initializing Timer…done. Fastpath CPU0.00: Initializing Timer… Fastpath CPU0.00: Initializing NBAR AGING Timer…done. Fastpath CPU0.01: Core 1 Initialization and FIPS self-test: ok Fastpath CPU0.02: Core 2 Initialization and FIPS self-test: ok Fastpath CPU0.03: Core 3 Initialization and FIPS self-test: ok Fastpath CPU0.03: Received instruction to get link status Fastpath CPU0.04: Core 4 Initialization and FIPS self-test: ok Fastpath CPU0.05: Core 5 Initialization and FIPS self-test: ok Fastpath CPU0.06: Core 6 Initialization and FIPS self-test: ok Fastpath CPU0.07: Core 7 Initialization and F