Radio or ssid on a timer

[Jeff Van Houten]

Does anyone know if there is a way to automatically enable/disable either the radios or the authentication for an ssid on a wlc? I'd want to disable at night and re-enable in the morning based on a time schedule.

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[George Stefanick]

Yes, if you have WCS create a template to enable and disable the WLANs. Then schedule the template at the times you want.

[Scott Fella]

Just to add to George's post... seems like this come up once a month:)  If your doing 802.1x, you can also set a time for authentication, but the radios will still be on.  If you have switches that support energy-wise, you can shut the port off and on also at a certain time.

[Jeff Van Houten]

I'll check into the energy wise configs. The switches we have are virtually brand new 2960s.

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[Jeff Van Houten]

I'm afraid I don't have wcs.

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[Leo Laohoo · Accepted solution]

You have three options:

1.  WCS (as George has mentioned);

2.  EnergyWise (as Scott has mentioned); and

3.  Time-based ACL.

[Jeff Van Houten]

acl looks like it might be easiest. Thanks.

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[Leo Laohoo]

Time-Based ACLs Using Time Ranges