Migrating cnPilot E-Series Access Points from cnMaestro Cloud to On-Premises

Scenario: Initially during the network design phase your company has decided to go with cnMaestro Cloud to manage the cnPilot Access Points considering Easy deployment and cost. At later stage as the deployments increase or company is ready for cnMaestro On-Premises infrastructure and you planned to migrate Access Points from cnMaestro Cloud to On-Premises.

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Currently cnPilot Access Points in your network are managed by on cnMaestro On-Premises during the maintenance of your server infrastructure you would like to migrate them to cnMaestro Cloud to monitor and reporting till maintenance of your server infrastructure is completed.

Procedure: Migration of cnPilot E-Series Access Point from cnMaestro Cloud to cnMaestro On-Premises is performed using User-Defined Overrides in the Access Point Group.

On cnMaestro On-Premises:  cnMaestro GUI >> AP Groups >> Edit / Create AP Group >> User-Defined Overrides

On cnMaestro Cloud: cnMaestro GUI >> AP Groups >> Edit / Create AP Group >> User-Defined Overrides

On Access Point GUI:

When managed by cnMaestro Cloud

When managed by cnMaestro On-Premises

Syntax for User-Defined Overrides for migrating access points from cnMaestro Cloud to cnMaestro On-Premises:

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 management cambium-remote url https://<cnMaestro On-Premises IP Address>

 no management cambium-remote validate-server-cert

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Syntax for User-Defined Overrides for migrating access points from cnMaestro On-Premises to cnMaestro Cloud:

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 management cambium-remote url https://cloud.cambiumnetworks.com

 management cambium-remote validate-server-cert

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Note: Validating server certificate is based on the requirment and installtion of 3rd party certificate on cnMaestro. 

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