Manually add Access Point to 2504 Wireless Controller

We have a 2504 Wireless Controller and it works great!
We currently have 6 Access Points (Aironet 1252) connected.
We just added the sixth one a few weeks ago and with a properly configured and fully functioning Wireless Controller, it was super easy.
Now, I have been assigned to add another Access Point, but at a remote site.
The plan is to have up to three or more APs at this remote location and we want them to talk back to the Wireless Controller.
We have plenty of licences on our current Wireless Controller.
Do do not want to spend the funds for another Wireless Controller and more licenses.
1. How does one manually add a Aironet 1252 to the 2504 Wireless Controller
2. If the AP is on a different subnet than the Wireless Controller, how does one get it registered?
3. The best for last: Can a Aironet 1252 talk to a 2504 Wireless Controller over a WAN link?
If so, how?
Thank you!
Bryan Smith

Here are some links
AP join
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk722/tk809/technologies_tech_note09186a00806c9e51.shtml
FlexConnect
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/controller/7.2/configuration/guide/cg_flexconnect.html
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2) Using an external power supply
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Hello,
I am tasked with configuring a 2504 wireless controller. Is it possible to assign an SSID to an interface that has dynamic ap management enabled?
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So this is how you want this to be setup:
Scenario:
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Since location 1 is a flat network with only one subnet (internal) and one in the DMZ, you will configure WLC management/ap-manger port 1 on the 10.0.0.0/24 subnet. You can then map your SSID#1 to the management interface. Create a new dynaminc interface on the WLC and assign it an ip in the 192.168.0.0/24 subnet and place that on port 2. Connect port 2 to the DMZ. Now since you want everything to tunnel back to the WLC from location 2, you would leave the ap's in local mode. Devices in location 2 associating on SSID #1 will obtain an ip address in location 1 and tunnel back to the WLC and traffic will egress out of port 1. Devices that associate in location 1 or location 2 to SSID#2 (Guest) will tunnel back to the WLC in location 1 and traffic will egress out of port 2.
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Is he asking what software Version?
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To Verifying that Access Points Join the Controller or not there are two ways as below.
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Did you get it to work? The thing you have to understand is how the AP is able to join the WLC and the process the AP goes through to try to join. Here is a document that will help you understand the process and the various ways an AP can join or find the WLC. The easiest almost fool proof way is to place the ap in the same subnet as the management of the WLC. If the AP joins, then the AP will know of the ip of that WLC it joined or any in the mobility group if defined. Take a look at the doc as it explains it better than I can:)
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk722/tk809/technologies_tech_note09186a00806c9e51.shtml
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