Hello. I use Mikrotik CHR and CAPs.
Sorry for my bad English.
CHR is in central office.
Caps in many small offices.
Now the interfaces are configured as manage locally or capsman.
all works fine.
The problem occurs when the controller’s connection is lost.
the interface turns to local manage and work fine (but all connections is lost - that’s not good).
but i need to setup all caps manually. that’s not good too.
if i need to change password - i still need to made it for all caps manually
what i need? I want the configuration from Capsman to continue to work even in the absence of Capsman.
Are there any solutions?
At this point - no. You need constant connection to server, so try to fix your network. Maybe deploy second server on other location.
Actually, yes.
You can use “capsman or local” for the access points manager.
If capsman is available, it will be used.
If not, AP will revert to local settings (which are can be pretty identical to capsman settings, so rather easy to copy over once).
Other then that, a second (local) capsman server is probably best (any AX device on itself can also act as one !!) but then you also need some scripting to enable that local instance only when remote instance is unreachable (and switch it back).
Maintaining everything w.r.t. to settings etc. will become another story, though …
As I understand question was more about AP being online all the time, despite server is reachable or not. That switch, afaik, from capsman to local will bring AP down.
Same will happen using a fallback capsman controller … or e.g. DFS channel detection.
You can never guarantee 100% wifi availability.
My network is fine. In small offices there are 2 - 3 laptops that do not have a normal network card (RJ45).
If the provider blocks the tunnel, then the entire office is stuck.
If suddenly I need to change the wireless network settings, I will have to do this on all devices (20+CAPS and Capsman). It turns out that Capsman is superfluous in this scheme.
I just want to manage everything from one place without creating a big point of failure
Your most important big point of failure is out of your control, so it seems.
Besides, what will still work if the internet line is down ??
Deal with it as I indicated (“capsman or local” or local “backup” capsman controller with some scripting).
I have already set up “capsman or local” setup. It works well. But I don’t like that if I need to change the network name, password, frequencies or something else, I need to set up all the points manually