CN113328873B - Cloud management platform system and method for managing thin access point configuration - Google Patents
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Abstract
The application provides a cloud management platform system and a method for managing thin access point configuration by the cloud management platform system. Wherein the method comprises the following steps: providing a user registration Web page and receiving user registration information to generate a registered user; providing a user management configuration Web page to receive identification information of batch management thin access points of registered users; adding a batch management thin access point according to the identification information; providing a configuration selection Web page to select thin access points to be configured from the batch management thin access points; selecting an access controller for the selected thin access point to be configured; and sending the IP address of the selected access controller to the thin access point to be configured so that the thin access point to be configured and the selected access controller establish a CAPWAP tunnel and the selected access controller configures the thin access point to be configured.
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Technical Field
The present application relates to communications technologies, and in particular, to a cloud management platform system and a method for managing thin access point configuration thereof.
Background
A large number of thin APs (Access points) deployed in a wireless network are centrally controlled and managed by an AC (Access Controller), and the configuration of all thin APs is stored on the AC and sent to the thin APs by the AC, without any configuration.
The thin AP and the AC adopt a CAPWAP (control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Point) tunnel for communication. The CAPWAP tunnel provides a common encapsulation and transport mechanism for communication between the thin AP and the AC, uses UDP protocol as a transport protocol, and supports IPv4 and IPv6 protocols. The thin AP needs to acquire the IP address of the AC first to establish a CAPWAP tunnel with the AC, and then communication is carried out to complete the discovery of the AC by the thin AP.
Common thin AP discovery ACs include: in the two-layer discovery mode, the thin AP initiates a request in a broadcast mode, and the ACs belonging to the same two-layer broadcast domain determine whether to respond to the request according to a pre-configured accessible AP list and the current load condition; and a three-layer discovery mode, in which Configuration information of an AP is configured on an AC in advance, a Domain Name is configured on a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server, an IP address corresponding to the Domain Name of the AC is configured on a DNS (Domain Name System), the thin AP acquires the IP address, the DNS server, and the Domain Name through the DHCP, and then requests the AC through a two-layer broadcast, and when the thin AP does not receive a response from the AC, a discovery request is sent to the Domain Name acquired from the DHCP server.
The cloud management platform is a new IT online operation platform and has the characteristics of manageability, reliability, high safety, economy and practicability. The cloud platform can monitor the network on line, know the health state of the wireless network at any time, quickly position and eliminate faults; the method can be used for deploying the operation service on line and adjusting the operation service in a targeted manner. When a large number of thin APs of a network wireless network are managed through a cloud management platform, a new method is needed to discover an AC through the cloud management platform, so that the AC configures the thin APs.
Disclosure of Invention
The application aims to provide a cloud management platform system and a method for managing configuration of a thin access point.
In order to achieve the above object, the present application provides a method for a cloud management platform system to manage thin access point configuration, where the method includes: providing a user registration Web page and receiving user registration information to generate a registered user; providing a user management configuration Web page to receive identification information of batch management thin access points of registered users; adding a batch management thin access point according to the identification information; providing a configuration selection Web page to select thin access points to be configured from the batch management thin access points; selecting an access controller for the selected thin access point to be configured; sending the IP address of the selected access controller to the thin access point to be configured so that the thin access point to be configured and the selected access controller establish a CAPWAP tunnel and the selected access controller configures the thin access point to be configured
In order to achieve the above object, the present application further provides a cloud management platform system, including: the network user interface module is used for providing a user registration Web page and receiving user registration information to generate a registered user; providing a user management configuration Web page to receive the identification information of the batch management thin access points of the registered users; providing a configuration selection Web page to select thin access points to be configured from the batch management thin access points; the service processing module is used for adding the batch management thin access points according to the identification information; selecting an access controller for the selected thin access point to be configured; and the communication module is used for sending the IP address of the selected access controller to the thin access point to be configured so that the thin access point to be configured and the selected access controller establish a CAPWAP tunnel, and the thin access point to be configured and the selected access controller establish a CAPWAP tunnel so that the selected access controller configures the thin access point to be configured. The identification information of the thin access point to be configured comprises: the network segment of the thin access point to be configured or the product serial number range of the thin access point to be configured or the gateway address of the thin access point to be configured.
The beneficial effects of this application lie in, not only can the thin AP that needs the management in batches and the thin AP that waits to dispose be imported through registering user cloud management platform system, and by user cloud management platform system with the IP address of the AC of selecting to the AP that waits to dispose, thin AP just so long as be located can public network environment just can follow the IP address that cloud management platform system obtained the AC, accomplish the process that thin AP discovers the AC, be not limited to two-layer discovery or three-layer discovery, need not the outer configuration of going on DHCP server or DNS server, make the management of thin AP more nimble in the wireless network, high efficiency.
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fig. 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating a cloud management platform system managing a thin access point;
fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of a cloud management platform system.
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A detailed description will be given of a number of examples shown in a number of figures. In the following detailed description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present application. Well-known methods, procedures, components and circuits have not been described in detail so as not to obscure the examples.
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Fig. 1 shows a flow of a method for managing thin access point configuration by a cloud management platform system, which includes:
in step 101, a providing user registration Web page receives user registration information to generate a registered user.
And 102, providing a user management configuration Web page to receive the identification information of the batch management thin access points of the registered users.
And 103, adding the batch management thin access points according to the identification information.
And 104, providing a configuration selection Web page to select the thin access points to be configured from the batch management thin access points.
And 105, selecting an access controller for the selected thin access point to be configured.
And step 106, sending the IP address of the selected access controller to the thin access point to be configured.
The thin access point to be configured can establish a CAPWAP tunnel according to the acquired IP address of the access controller, so that the selected access controller configures the thin access point to be configured.
The method shown in fig. 1 has the beneficial effects that the thin APs to be managed and the thin APs to be configured can be led in batch by registering the user cloud management platform system, and the IP address of the selected AC is sent to the AP to be configured by the user cloud management platform system, so that the thin AP can obtain the IP address of the AC from the cloud management platform system as long as the thin AP is located in a public network environment, and the process of discovering the AC by the thin AP is completed.
Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating a cloud management platform system managing a thin access point. Thin APs 1-AP29 and fat APs 30 deployed in a wireless network. The IP addresses or domain names of the cloud management platform system are configured in the factory of the thin APs and the fat APs. The addresses of the cloud management platform system built in the AP equipment can enable the AP equipment to be automatically connected to the cloud management platform system after being started, and human intervention is not needed.
In the network configuration of the AP equipment, a default VLAN interface applies for an IP address in a DHCP client-side mode, a user only needs to place the AP equipment under certain gateway equipment to apply for the IP address, and TCP connection can be established between the AP equipment and a cloud management system.
Various devices (such as various network terminals shown in fig. 2) of the user a and the user B may receive user registration information to generate registered users through a user registration Web page provided by the cloud management platform system.
It should be noted that, in the present application, there is no necessary precedence relationship between the user and each AP of the wireless network and the cloud management platform system through the cloud management platform system registration platform account. The user A or B registers the platform account to start the configuration of the remote management thin AP equipment through the cloud management platform system.
The cloud management platform system provides a user management configuration Web page and receives identification information of batch management thin access points of registered users. The user A, B may enter an IP address network segment, or a product serial number range or a gateway address as desired.
In this way, the cloud management platform system can automatically add the thin APs establishing the connection as the thin APs managed in batch according to the identification information.
When the cloud management platform system is connected with the thin APs 1-29, whether the versions of the thin APs need to be upgraded or not can be checked, the correct versions are sent to the thin APs with incorrect versions to be upgraded, and then the subsequent configuration management process is started.
When the cloud management platform system is connected with the fat AP30, the working mode is checked, the fat AP30 is found not to work in the thin AP mode, and the fat AP30 is informed to switch the working mode to the thin AP mode. The cloud management platform system may further check whether the version of the switched thin AP30 needs to be updated, and if so, send the version needing to be updated to the switched thin AP 30.
The cloud management platform system can judge whether the IP addresses of the connected thin APs belong to the network segment IP addresses of the thin APs needing to be added in batches or not according to the IP addresses of the connected thin APs, and if yes, the thin APs are added to be the thin APs which are managed in batches. Or the cloud management platform system can judge whether the product serial number belongs to the range of the product serial numbers needing to be added in batches according to the product serial number of each connected thin AP, and if so, the product serial numbers are added into the thin AP to be managed in batches. Or, the cloud management platform system may add the connected thin APs as the thin APs to be managed in batch if the gateway MAC addresses of the thin APs to be connected and the thin APs to be added in batch belong to the same gateway.
In this way, although the cloud platform management system can establish connection with a large number of thin APs in the wireless network, the registered platform users a or B add thin AP devices to be managed in batch through the cloud management platform system.
In this embodiment, taking user a as an example, it is assumed that thin APs 1-21 are added in bulk as bulk-managed thin APs. The user A can also select a Web page through configuration provided by the cloud management platform system and select a thin AP needing configuration. The user A can select a certain thin AP in batch or individually. In the application, for example, the user a selects the thin AP1 and the thin AP20, and an IP address of the AC2 to be connected is sent to the thin AP1 and the thin AP20 through the cloud platform.
After receiving the IP address of the AC2, the thin AP1 and the thin AP20 respectively store the address locally, start a CAPWAP protocol state machine, discover the AC2, establish a CAPWAP tunnel and complete AC discovery of the thin AP. The AC2 configures the thin AP1 and thin AP20 through the established CAPWAP tunnel.
In this embodiment, if the user a selects a Web page through the configuration provided by the cloud management platform system, the thin APs 1-thin AP21 are selected in batch, the cloud management platform system may perform load balancing calculation according to the number of thin APs accessed by the ACs 1-AC3 or the forwarded traffic, select different ACs for the thin AP 1-thin AP21, such as AC1 for the thin AP 1-thin AP5, AC2 for the thin AP 6-thin AP15, AC3 for the thin AP 16-thin AP21, then send the IP address of the AC1 to the thin AP 1-thin AP5, send the IP address of the AC2 to the thin AP 6-AP 15, and send the IP address of the AC3 to the thin AP 16-AP 21.
If the thin AP cannot establish a CAPWAP tunnel with the AC due to some reason after acquiring the IP address of the AC, the thin AP can also upload error information and a protocol message to a cloud management platform system, the error information and the protocol message are displayed to a user in a visual mode, and the user performs error troubleshooting according to the error information to solve the connection problem.
The process of discovering the AC by the thin AP in fig. 2 is not limited to two-layer discovery or three-layer discovery, and does not need to perform external configuration on a DHCP server or a DNS server, so that the work of managing the thin AP in the wireless network is flexible and efficient. Meanwhile, the scheme is remote operation, and operation and maintenance personnel or project deployment personnel can complete all configuration and online operation without being in the field, so that manpower and material resources are greatly saved.
Fig. 3 illustrates a cloud management platform system 300, where the system 300 includes: a network user interface module 311, a service processing module 312, and a communication module 313.
A network user interface module 311, configured to provide a user registration Web page to receive user registration information to generate a registered user; providing a user management configuration Web page to receive the identification information of the batch management thin access points of the registered users; providing a configuration selection Web page to select thin access points to be configured from the batch management thin access points; a service processing module 312, configured to add a batch management thin access point according to the identification information; selecting an access controller for the selected thin access point to be configured; the communication module 313 is configured to send the IP address of the selected access controller to the thin access point to be configured, so that the thin access point to be configured establishes a CAPWAP tunnel with the selected access controller, and so that the selected access controller configures the thin access point to be configured. The identification information of the thin access point to be configured comprises: the network segment of the thin access point to be configured or the product serial number range of the thin access point to be configured or the gateway address of the thin access point to be configured.
The step of adding the batch management thin access points by the service processing module 312 according to the identification information includes: adding each connected thin access point belonging to a network segment as a batch management thin access point; or adding each connected thin access point belonging to the range of the product serial number as a batch management thin access point; or adding each connected thin access point belonging to a gateway as a bulk management thin access point.
A traffic processing module 312, further configured to identify each of the fat access points that are connected and to identify a version of each of the thin access points that are connected; a communication module 313, further configured to notify that the operation mode of each connected fat access point is switched to a thin access point; and sending the update-needed version to each thin access point of each connection identified as needing updating.
The above description is only exemplary of the present application and should not be taken as limiting the present application, as any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present application should be included in the scope of protection of the present application.
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1. A method for managing thin access point configuration by a cloud management platform system, the method comprising:
providing a user registration Web page and receiving user registration information to generate a registered user;
providing a user management configuration Web page to receive identification information of batch management thin access points of registered users;
adding the batch management thin access points according to the identification information;
providing a configuration selection Web page to select thin access points to be configured from the batch management thin access points;
selecting an access controller for the selected thin access point to be configured;
and sending the IP address of the selected access controller to a thin access point to be configured so that the thin access point to be configured and the selected access controller establish a CAPWAP tunnel to configure the thin access point to be configured by the selected access controller.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the identification information of the thin access point to be configured comprises: the network segment of the thin access point to be configured or the product serial number range of the thin access point to be configured or the gateway of the thin access point to be configured.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein adding the bulk management thin access point based on the identification information comprises:
adding a thin access point of each connection belonging to the network segment as the batch management thin access point; or
Adding each connected thin access point belonging to the product serial number range as the batch management thin access point; or
Adding each connected thin access point belonging to the gateway as a batch management thin access point.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting an access controller for the selected thin access point to be configured comprises: selecting one access controller for the selected thin access point to be configured from a plurality of available access controllers according to a load balancing algorithm.
5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:
identifying connected fat access points, and switching the working mode of each connected fat access point into a thin access point;
and identifying each thin access point which needs to be updated and sending the version which needs to be updated to each thin access point which needs to be updated.
6. A cloud management platform system, the system comprising:
the network user interface module is used for providing a user registration Web page and receiving user registration information to generate a registered user; providing a user management configuration Web page to receive the identification information of the batch management thin access points of the registered users; providing a configuration selection Web page to select thin access points to be configured from the batch management thin access points;
the service processing module is used for adding the batch management thin access points according to the identification information; selecting an access controller for the selected thin access point to be configured;
and the communication module is used for sending the IP address of the selected access controller to the thin access point to be configured so as to establish a CAPWAP tunnel with the selected access controller, so that the thin access point to be configured and the selected access controller establish a CAPWAP tunnel, and the selected access controller configures the thin access point to be configured.
7. The system of claim 6, wherein the identification information of the thin access point to be configured comprises: the network segment of the thin access point to be configured or the product serial number range of the thin access point to be configured or the gateway address of the thin access point to be configured.
8. The system of claim 6, wherein the adding, by the traffic processing module, the bulk management thin access points based on the identification information comprises: adding a thin access point of each connection belonging to the network segment as the batch management thin access point; or adding each connected thin access point belonging to the product serial number range as the batch management thin access point; or adding each connected thin access point belonging to the gateway as a bulk management thin access point.
9. The system of claim 6, wherein the traffic processing module selecting an access controller for the selected thin access point to be configured comprises: and the service processing module selects one access controller from the plurality of available access controllers for the selected thin access point to be configured according to a load balancing algorithm.
10. The system of claim 9,
the business processing module is also used for identifying a connected fat access point and a thin access point needing to be updated;
the communication module is further configured to notify that the identified working mode of each fat access point is switched to the thin access point; and sending the version needing updating to each thin access point needing updating.
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