Your Requirements; Setup - ZyXEL Communications NWA-3160 - V3.70 Manual

Chapter 3 Tutorials

3.6.2 Your Requirements

You want to manage the APs in your company using one controller AP's Web
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Configurator. That is, you only need to know one IP address to edit the settings of
the NWAs in your wireless network.
You want to have a backup of the NWA controller AP configuration.
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3.6.3 Setup

In this example, each of your NWA standalone AP mirror each other. They all have
the same SSID profiles stored. First you need to download the configuration file
from one of your NWAs for backup purposes. Refer to
for information on how to download the configuration file from your NWA.
In case there are various SSID profiles stored in each NWA standalone AP, the
administrator will have to copy each SSID profile to just one NWA (which will
serve as the NWA controller AP.)
Note: This tutorial covers only the MGNT MODE and Controller screens.
You will need to do the following steps to configure the management modes of
your NWAs.
Assign one NWA AP (A) as the controller AP for your wireless NWA AP network.
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This will be your primary controller AP. Acquire another NWA with the same model
and firmware version as A, to serve as the secondary controller AP (E). Both
controller APs (A and E) are in the 1st floor of the building (recommended). The
NWA APs (B, C and D) from the 2nd, 3rd and 4th floors are going to be your
managed APs.
Note: The controllers need to have static IP addresses in the same network. Make
sure you set the IP addresses in the IP screen.
• Configure the newly added NWA (
• Configure the 1st floor NWA in Primary Controller AP (A) mode and enter the
IP address of your Secondary Controller AP (E) for synchronization.
Change the management mode of your 2nd, 3rd and 4th floor NWAs (B, C and D,
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originally in default standalone mode) to Managed AP mode. You can also
manually enter the IP addresses of your primary and secondary NWA controller
APs.
Add the newly converted managed APs (B, C and D, from step 4) to the Managed
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Access Points List of the NWA primary controller AP.
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) in Secondary Controller AP mode.
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