WLAN 9100 Release Notes Release Notes for Avaya WLAN 9100 Software Patch Release AP Operating System Rel 7.2.8 Wireless LAN Orchestration System Rel 7.4.2 Avaya Inc - External Distribution
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1. Introduction This document provides details on the issues resolved in Avaya WLAN 9100 software patch release 7.2.8. Release number 7.2.8 is in reference to the AP Operating System (AOS) Software. The software release numbers for other components of the solution vary. Enhancements on the AOS Release 7.2.8 include: WPA2 Enterprise Opportunistic Key Caching. GRE Tunneling support for Avaya Identity Engines Ignition Guest Tunneling Server. Updated station classification to recognize new client devices like Apple Watch, Roku, Samsung Galaxy S6, Samsung Tab4. Updated Application Control Library to recognize new applications. Spectralink View Certification: - WLAN 9100 Release 7.2.8 is the Spectralink View Certified Code stream. The View certified configuration guide is posted by Spectralink at http://support.spectralink.com/sites/default/files/resource_files/721-1006-000-a.pdf. Updated DFS Channel support for countries in addition to FCC and EU Regulatory domains as certified. Enhancements on the WOS Release 7.4.2 include RADIUS Authentication for WOS ADMIN Login: Administrators can now logon to WOS-Enterprise using External RADIUS Servers. The Administrative RADIUS settings are configured under Settings / Applications / Admin RADIUS. Supported authentication types are PAP and CHAP. If both the primary and secondary RADIUS servers are unreachable, WOS Enterprise will fall back to local authentication. Renaming SSIDs: SSIDs inside both profiles and in individual arrays can now be renamed without having the delete and re-create the SSID. Importing AP Data through CSV Files: Administrators can now utilize CSV files to import information related to APs. The CSV format should be as follows: 1. First column of the first row must be labeled Serial Number. 2. Second column of the first row must be labeled Profile. If the profile exists, the array will be inserted into that profile. If the profile does not exist, the profile will be created. 3. Columns three through eight can be any alphanumeric string up to 256 characters long. 4. Maximum columns supported are 8. Note the following restrictions: The profile will not be pushed to the arrays automatically after the import is complete. The administrator will have to go into the individual new profiles, make sure the configuration settings are as desired and then push each profile manually, by pressing "Apply Config" on the profiles. This will then follow the usual procedure with profile pushes. Configurable Rogue RSSI Thresholds: Administrators can now configure RSSI thresholds such that rogues with RSSIs less than the threshold will not be processed by WOS-Enterprise. This allows administrators to optimize performance. Avaya Inc - External Distribution 3
Deletion of Backup Images: Administrators can now delete old AP images from the local disk to free up disk space. Multichannel Auto Cell Support: The auto cell feature adjusts the size of two or more neighboring Access Points that are on same channel. This is called Single Channel Auto Cell and its primary goal is to avoid co-channel interference between neighboring APs. Upcoming AOS release 7.4.x and above introduce a new option, Multi-Channel Auto Cell, to adjust cell sizes on all channels of neighboring APs. A potential application of Multi-Channel Auto Cell is when the cell size needs to be adjusted as such that the stations would associate only to the AP located in the same room. 1.1 Related Resources Please refer to Product Documentation and Release Notes of Avaya WLAN 9100 System, Software Release 7.2 available at http://www.avaya.com/support. Click Products, select Wireless LAN 9100 Series from the A-Z list, then select Documentation > View All Documents 2. Software Image File Details The following section provides the software image file details for release AOS 7.2.8 & WOS 7.4.2 Component File Name File Size (bytes) Avaya OS for WLAN 9100 Series Access Points (AOS) Wireless LAN Orchestration System (WOS) VMware and Hyper-V (Upgrade) Wireless LAN Orchestration System (WOS) VMware OVA (Fresh Install) Wireless LAN Orchestration System (WOS) Hyper-V (Fresh Install) XS-7.2.8-5494.bin 77,763,721 wos-vm-upgrade-7.4.2-6065.xau 640,089,142 wos-vm-7.4.2-6065.ova 745,380,352 WOS Hyper-V Installer-7.4.2-6065.exe 735,549,938 Wi-Fi Designer Avaya-WiFi-Designer-Setup-1.9.0.411.exe 10,482,088 Avaya Virtual Console No Changes Refer to Rel 7.2 Table 1: Software Image File Details Avaya Inc - External Distribution 4
3. Supported Platforms This section provides the supported browsers and platforms for the software applications. WLAN 9100 Access Point Web Management Interface (WMI) Supported Browsers Chrome 29 & 30 Firefox 24 & 25 Safari 6 & 7 Internet Explorer 10 & 11 Wireless LAN Orchestration System (WOS) Supported Platforms The WOS-VM package must be installed on a server running VMware with following VMware ESXi (recommended) VMware Player VMware vsphere VMware Workstation The WOS-HV package must be installed on a server running Microsoft Hyper-V with following Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 Supported Browsers Chrome 29 & 30 Firefox 24 & 25 Safari 6 & 7 Internet Explorer 10 & 11 Virtual Machine Requirements Deployment Size Small Medium Large Max Aps 50 500 1500 Max Stations 1500 10000 15000 Min Recommended Processor Two Cores Four Cores Eight Cores Min Recommended RAM 4GB 8GB 16GB Min Recommended Storage/Thin Provisioned 150GB 300GB 500GB Note: In all VM deployments, one must take care not to over-provision RAM when using a Virtual WOS Appliance e.g. if there are 3 VM instances on the system that are provisioned for 8GB each, then the total system must have no less than 3*8GB = 24 GB provisioned for it Avaya Inc - External Distribution 5
Wi-Fi Designer Supported Platforms Wi-Fi Designer runs on Microsoft Windows and requires: 32-bit or 64-bit laptop running Microsoft Windows 7 using a DirectX 9 compatible graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or later revision driver. Min Processor speed 1GHz Min RAM 1 GB for 32-bit or 2 GB for 64-bit system Min Free Hard Disk Space: 16 GB for 32-bit or 20GB for 64-bit system. Supported Wi-Fi Adapter Wi-Fi Designer requires the ORiNOCO Proxim 8494 802.11a/b/g/n USB Wi-Fi adapter (Model 8494 WD) to perform active surveys. During the installation of Wi-Fi Designer, the driver associated with the USB adapter will be replaced with the Avaya developed driver. Do not override the driver by reinstalling the ORiNOCO provided driver. 4. Resolved Issues Resolved Issues for WLAN 9100 Access Points Table 2: Wireless Access Point Issues Resolved DFS Channels support is added for additional countries as certified. WMI and CLI can become irresponsive when unit is managed over a GRE tunnel. Internal Captive Portal/Web Page Redirect was not working when using SSID with VLAN over a GRE tunnel. Intermittently the AP Radio can get into a loop, continuously retransmitting Null Data frames to a station that has disappeared from the network until the station is aged out due to inactivity. In some instances, an AP running for long periods of uptime with heavy multicast traffic load could run out of internal resources and eventually reboot to recover. Intermittent MacBook connectivity issues when AP 5GHz Radio was set to transmit power of 10db or less. Creation of SSID from WMI creates a honeypot hyperlink which is displayed on all screens Avaya Scopia application should be listed under Application Category "Collaboration" AP with Taiwan country code was causing error messages upon boot AP under stress test with about 240 stations for extended periods of time could eventually run out of resources and reboot. The station inactivity timer was not updated correctly with UDP traffic causing the AP to send null data packets to the stations unnecessarily. Removed the Auto Cell by Band (multi-channel auto cell) from WMI since this feature is not fully supported in this AOS release. AOS 7.4.x is required for Multi-Channel Auto Cell feature. Avaya Inc - External Distribution 6
Table 3: Wireless LAN Orchestration System Issues Resolved Resolved Issues for Wireless LAN Orchestration System (WOS) Profile Filter priority set does not allowed to move the last filter up twice after edit Reverting to Standard Time from Daylight Saving Time causes WMI error WPR Redirect secret was being encrypted twice on occasion Bulk edit of radios on a 4 radio AP results in an error when attempting to configure all radios to 5GHz with bonds. Applying DNS configuration settings shows incorrect status message ( Done configuring Wi-Fi Tag ) Profile push failures in certain edge cases Filtering the station App Category and Station App Usage widgets by VLANs causes the charts to not be displayed Profile allowed to save configuration with internal RADIUS server user without password Profile AP OS upgrade status message count and status message list show different count AP wireless setting may be pushed to APs even though there is no material changes Backup -- If a table is corrupted, WOS shows that backup was successful even though the backup was not usable Profile changes to Admin Privilege Name are not pushed out to APs Profile -- System log email setting does not push modified password AP Config allowed to set bond mode 80 MHz for.11n only Wi-Fi mode SSID Captive Portal internal login page displays extra double-quote after login button Profile APs disappear from non-default profile after discovering a new AP into an empty default profile with static IP then move it to the non-default profile then change hostname Profile profile created from an AP with radio disabled is default to radio enabled AP Config Global settings under security tab WPA PSK allowed user to enter password while EAP is selected Backup intermittent backup corruption due to timing issue when temporary tables are deleted during backup Peak Tx+Rx column in the Table for Ethernet Traffic Report is showing average values rather than peak values Profile -- External RADIUS IP cannot be set above 203 in first octet When gig1 and gig2 of an AP are bonded and set to DHCP, disabling gig2 would change gig1 to static IP with IP previously assigned by the DHCP server Table 4: Wi-Fi Designer Issues Resolved Avaya Inc - External Distribution 7
Resolved Issues for Wi-Fi Designer Added support for WAP 9172 and 9173 Access Points. SSID centric survey throws errors if there are SSID with name containing brackets or braces in the air WAP9123 displayed as radio type 2x2 in BOM, should be 3x3 5. Known Issues Please refer to WLAN 9100 Rel 7.2 Release Notes for the complete list of known issues. There are no new issues to be reported with rel 7.2.8. Avaya Inc - External Distribution 8