Upgrading from WLC 4402-50 to WLC 5508-250

I am planning to upgrade my WLC 4402-50 (HA) to WLC 5508-250 (HA). I also have some really old 1020 Access points that I will be replacing with 1142's. Once I have completed the upgrade to the 5508s, I will repurpose the 4402's as Mobile Anchor controllers to support Guest Wireless.
Does anyone have any actual experience with this sort of upgrade? Any practical suggestions or ideas??
Thanks,

Hi,
Are you still facing this issue? if yes try checking the link if that helps
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6366/products_qanda_item09186a008064a991.shtml
thanks,
Vinay

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/Björn

It can be done before or after. I have always done the FUS upgrade after the image upgrade
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Greetings!!!!!
We have WLC 5508 installed in our premises to which 80 1242AG APs are connected. Few days ago, all the APs all of a sudden disconnected from Controller and rejoined after 12 to 15 hours. when we try to investigate, there was regulatory domain conflict occur. But we didn't understand that those APs were configured with the same config before. How come they got diconnected and now rejoined without changing any configration in WLC?
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Then the APs should of not of disassociated from the WLC. If all these APs are local to where the WLC resides, then I really don't know why the APs would of disassociated. Take a look at the monitor tab and then look at statistics and then ap join. There should be a history unless the WLC was rebooted or the log was cleared. The only other thing I could think of is if there was a duplicate address on a device that had the same IP address as the management interface of the WLC.
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- about 130 x 2602i APs
I need to upgrade to 7.6.130.0 using the pre-download feature to minimize the network downtime.
Is it possible to transfer the 7.6 to the controllers and pre-download 7.6 to all APs, then do the FUS 1.9 upgrade and finally start the actual controller upgrade to 7.6.
So the steps would be:
1. Transfer 7.6 image to primary controller (do not reboot!), so still running 7.4 as active image.
2. Start pre-download of 7.6 image to all APs and wait till all APs have the new image (do not know how long it takes for 130 APs).
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4. Make 7.6 image the active/primary image on controllers and APs and reset controllers.
If the steps above will not work, I would need to upgrade FUS 1.9 which means 1 hour downtime and then start the pre-download to all APs. The pre-download can take a long time I heard, so I need to wait and wait before I can start the 7.6 upgrade, which means another 1 hour downtime.
This way I need two maintenance windows instead of one. So would it be possible to combine the pre-download and FUS?
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>Do I need to upgrade the FUS 1.9 before the 7.6 image or can I do the FUS afterwards? If I can do it afterwards, I can do the upgrades in the same maintenance window. This way I can start the pre-download the day before, so I am pretty sure the APs have the image at the time of the maintenance window.
>I cannot find any remarks about the required order of installation (FUS -> image or image -> FUS).
Release Notes for Wireless LAN Controller Field Upgrade Software for Release 1.9.0.0 - p2 :
* This release of the Field Upgrade Software is applicable to CISCO WLC's that are installed with the controller software release 6.0 and later.
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Upgrade WLC 5508 to ver 7.5

hi,
I need upgrade a WLC 5508 to ver 7.5. we have aironet 1242 AG y 1131 AG and I dont see any ver AP to join
please, are there IOS to do these?
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RAHA
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Below AP models supported by WLC 7.5.x software. (see the below release note for detail)
Cisco 1040, 1130, 1140, 1240, 1250, 1260, 1600, 2600, 3500, 3500p, 3600, Cisco 600 Series OfficeExtend Access Points, 700 Series, AP801, and AP802
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/controller/release/notes/crn75.html
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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/docs/wireless/controller/7.0MR1/configuration/guide/cg_managing_ctrlr.html#wp1063850
Do not download a configuration file to your controller that was uploaded from a different controller platform. For example, a Cisco 5500 Series Controller does not support the configuration file from a Cisco 4400 Series or 2100 Series Controller.
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I believe that is just how Cisco designed it:). I believe in earlier versions this worked.
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2 Normal Disa Enable Auto       Auto       Down   Enable N/A     Not Present
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1 Normal Disa Enable Auto       Auto       Down   Enable N/A     Not Present
2 Normal Disa Enable Auto       Auto       Down   Enable N/A     Not Present
3 Normal Disa Enable Auto       Auto       Down   Enable N/A     SFP Error
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I'm trying to migrate from a WLC 4402 to a 5508. I've uploaded the config from the 4402 and then downloaded it to the 5508. I'm able to get to the GUI but my clients are unable to connect. I've tried pinging from the clients with no luck. The APs connect to the 5508. I noticed that the ap-manager interface is not available for the 5508.
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