License Expiration of Cisco Lan Controller WAPs

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Hello

 

Have a couple of clients with old Cisco 2100 Lan Controllers. These were installed by another company some years ago. The controllers do not have any license information on, therefore, I don't know when they will cease to function in terms of providing wireless access point coverage to the Cisco WAPs.

 

I have been in touch with Cisco support but they weren't much help, their response was to contact the existing I.T. provider !!! Naturally, they won't provide anything.

 

Any help much appreciated.

 

Thank you.

[Duke5A]

I can't be much help regarding the licensing for those mini controllers, but for what it's worth I have three 4404 controllers in my environment and the licensing was a one time deal. The only thing that needed to be renewed was the support contract on a yearly basis until the controllers went end of life. I did have a major issue a couple years ago that involved the factory loaded certificates on the access points expiring and the controllers no longer allowing APs to associate. Those certs had an expiration date ten years after device manufacture. Didn't know what was happening until I got a console cable on one of the access points and I could see what it was complaining about. Disabling NTP and rolling back the date on the controllers fixed the issue until I could get updated firmware pushed out. Edited May 7, 2019 by Duke5A