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Cisco Wireless Controller On A SRE

The document discusses configuring a Cisco Wireless Controller on a Cisco 2951 router with an onboard Services Ready Engine (SRE) 300 module. Key steps included: 1) Connecting the SRE and router interfaces to the network; 2) Uploading the wireless controller software to an FTP server; 3) Installing the software on the SRE via the router CLI; 4) Configuring basic SRE network settings; and 5) Completing an auto-install wizard in the SRE CLI to fully deploy the wireless controller.

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Cisco Wireless Controller On A SRE

The document discusses configuring a Cisco Wireless Controller on a Cisco 2951 router with an onboard Services Ready Engine (SRE) 300 module. Key steps included: 1) Connecting the SRE and router interfaces to the network; 2) Uploading the wireless controller software to an FTP server; 3) Installing the software on the SRE via the router CLI; 4) Configuring basic SRE network settings; and 5) Completing an auto-install wizard in the SRE CLI to fully deploy the wireless controller.

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Cisco Wireless Controller on a SRE 

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December 26, 2012 · by Axel Dittmann · in Routing · Leave a comment

In the last few weeks I got a bunch of Cisco 2951 routers for my local lab. After quite a
busy time I found some rest to pay them their deserved full attention. I should have
done it earlier but from time to time other things are more important. Finally  after
powering them on I took a quick “show version” and I was really surprised: there was
something interesting on these routers …

Cisco CISCO2951/K9 (revision 1.1) with 993280K/55296K bytes of memory.


Processor board ID FGL1640114N
4 FastEthernet interfaces
6 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
3 terminal lines
1 Virtual Private Network (VPN) Module
1 Internal Services Module (ISM) with Services Ready Engine (SRE)

Lucky me, they had a Services-Ready Engine onboard. To dig a little deeper the “show
inventory” gave me:

NAME: “Internal Services Module with Services Ready Engine on Slot 0”, DESCR: “Internal Services Module with
Services Ready Engine”
PID: ISM-SRE-300-K9

The smallest one, just a 300, but I don’t want to be ungrateful. Unfortunately these guys
do not have a big disk (4GB), but there are still a lot of great things you can do with that
space. After a short thought about the use in my lab I decided to go for the Wireless Lan
Controller. But before that I wanted to see this nice little thing on myself. I removed the
hood and I found this little beauty:
I was really excited. My first SRE in my lab and combined with an Enhanced
Etherswitch Service Module I have now the base infrastructure for building a wireless
environment. After I reassembled everything I connected the switch module and one
interface of the router to my local LAN. Nothing complex (target is: installing the WLC
on the SRE 300), and so the basic cabling setup looked like this:

I downloaded the software for the WLC on the SRE, extracted the package (AIR-WLC-
SRE-K9-7-4-100-0.zip) and uploaded all files to my local ftp-server. Then I headed for
the CLI … (By the way: a very good explanation of installing the WLC on the SRE can
be found here.)
I just configured the base connectivity to the SRE via the router interface:

interface GigabitEthernet0/1
ip address 192.168.XX.17 255.255.255.0
duplex auto
speed auto

interface ISM0/0
ip unnumbered GigabitEthernet0/1
service-module ip address 192.168.XX.16 255.255.255.0
service-module ip default-gateway 192.168.XX.17

And I did not forget the host route to the SRE (which is mandatory):

ip route 192.168.XX.16 255.255.255.255 ISM0/0

Again: Just one thing to mention during the installation: at first I forgot to add the
default gateway to the ISM 0/0 interface. This led to the following error message:

Waiting for IOS to register IP address.


– waited 260 seconds…
WARNING:: IOS communication appears delayed!
WARNING::
WARNING:: Please verify the Service Engine IP Address
WARNING:: and Default Gateway are configured correctly
WARNING:: on the service engine interface in IOS

But as the error message told me, I was able to fix it very fast … After that I fired up
the following command:

service-module sre 0/0 install url


ftp://user:[email protected]/IOS/AS_SMWLC_7_4_100_0.aes

After a final “yes” I got a bunch of these log messages:

*Dec 26 15:38:28.457: %SM_INSTALL-6-INST_PROG: ISM0/0 PROGRESSING: Partitioning-HardDrive.


*Dec 26 15:38:28.469: %SM_INSTALL-6-INST_PROG: ISM0/0 PROGRESSING: Upgrading-Boot-Loader.
*Dec 26 15:38:28.457: %SM_INSTALL-6-INST_PROG: ISM0/0 PROGRESSING: Partitioning-HardDrive.
*Dec 26 15:38:28.469: %SM_INSTALL-6-INST_PROG: ISM0/0 PROGRESSING: Upgrading-Boot-Loader.
*Dec 26 15:38:32.644: %SM_INSTALL-6-INST_PROG: ISM0/0 PROGRESSING: Download-Pkg.
*Dec 26 15:38:36.988: %SM_INSTALL-6-INST_PROG: ISM0/0 PROGRESSING: Package-Installation.

Install successful on ISM0/0. Please wait for module to reset before next operation.

… and then a little bit of waiting and the process was finished. A “service-module ism
0/0 status” validated the previous log:

Service Module is Cisco ISM0/0


Service Module supports session via TTY line 195
Service Module is in Steady state
Service Module heartbeat-reset is enabled
Getting status from the Service Module, please wait..
Cisco WLAN Controller 7.4.100.0
Running
No install/uninstall in progress

Localstore Info – (0 apps)


=====================
Retrieving localstore information
Finally the install process was completed. Now: I tried to connect to the GUI, but this
service was not working yet. I had to connect to the SRE via the session command
(“service-engine sre 0/0 session“) and to complete the auto install wizard which looked
like this:

Trying 192.168.XX.17, 2195 … Open

System Name [Cisco_84:f2:20] (31 characters max):


AUTO-INSTALL: no interfaces registered.

AUTO-INSTALL: process terminated — no configuration loaded

Enter Administrative User Name (24 characters max): Cisco


Enter Administrative Password (3 to 24 characters): ********
Re-enter Administrative Password : ********

Enable Link Aggregation (LAG) [yes][NO]: yes

Management Interface IP Address: 192.168.XX.16


Management Interface Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Management Interface Default Router: 192.168.XX.17
Management Interface VLAN Identifier (0 = untagged):
Management Interface Port Num [1 to 1]:
<snip> 

… and then an automatic reboot of the system.


And again I have to mention that I configured the SRE 0/1 interface as a L2 interface
and this was automatically connected to my Etherswitch module:

interface ISM0/1
description Internal switch interface connected to Internal Service Module
switchport mode trunk
no ip address

After the last step I was able to connect to the GUI via my browser:

To summarize:

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