Migrate 9120AP on EWC to meraki

[Nori_Mir]

Hi All

I have a Cisco Embedded Wireless Controller on Catalyst Access Points running on ISO version 17.9.4.27

The AP model been registered to the EWC is C9120AXI-K

We are looking at licensing it the devices and migrating them over to Meraki. I am currently looking for some guide or advises if anyone has done this before? Thank you very much for time and attention!

[rwiesmann]

This post from the community maid help you

https://community.meraki.com/t5/Wireless/Catalyst-vs-Meraki/m-p/251598

[GreenMan]

So;   your AP model cannot be converted to be fully managed directly in the Meraki Dashboard    (those APs all start CW)

And your current Wireless LAN Controller (the EWC) cannot be monitored in the Meraki Dashboard.

For cloud dashboard operations, I think you'd need to use your existing APs with a supported 9800 WLC.  Right now that would mean using a hardware Controller.   One of these:

• C9800-L-C

• C9800-L-F

• C9800-40

• C9800-80

Note tht the latter two have, very recently, had End of Sale announced for them.

If you adopted this approach, the configuration of your wireless environment would (still) lie with the (new) WLC, but you'd get a high degree of visibility from the Meraki Dashboard.

https://documentation.meraki.com/Cloud_Monitoring_for_Catalyst/Getting_Started/Cloud_Monitoring_for_...

[Nori_Mir]

Hi Greenman

Thank you for your advice, this is a good start.

So, from my understanding if we decide to stay on premise then we will still have to go with the hardware controller to manage my existing C9120AXI AP model. With the new hardware controller, we also have the option in the near future (as long as the model is not EOL) to monitor this hardware controller in the Meraki dashboard?

The other way around is to redesign the whole wireless environment by bringing in the proper MR-AP model and run the setup and configuration in the Meraki dashboard?

[GreenMan]

If you decided to stay on-prem, you'd just need to deploy a WLC / WLCs that will work with your APs.  That could be a dedicated hardware model (just avoid -40 or -80 due to EoS) or you could use 9800-CL - virtualised.   What you couldn't do currently is cloud monitor your -CL in the Meraki Dashboard.