Will Ruckus access points still run without a zone director ?

Question

Hi, we have a zonedirector 1100 and 6 access points (eg 7363).

I'm trying to understand for resilience, and contingency plans in case any of our hardware fails. What would happen if the zonedirector failed ? Would it mean all the access points would continue to work, but not able to update or something. Or would the whole wireless network fail until it was fixed ?

michael_brado · Answer

Your clients who stay on their AP should have local connectivity (until the AP reboots after X min recovery settting period).
Open Auth or WPA-PSK clients may be able to roam, but not 802.1x, WISPr, or Guest Access WLAN clients, who need
the ZD for re-auth.
See also "Autonomous WLAN", designed for use if/when ZD connection is lost, in the ZD User Guide.

unknown · Answer

Thanks Karl and Todd, knowing this should help us with contingency plans.

unknown · Answer

Also to add to Karl's comment, there is a setting that tells the AP's to reboot after x minutes of no connectivity to the ZoneDirector, I believe default is 30 mins.  This would then drop all associated clients until the ZoneDirector is back online.  We run dual ZoneDirectors in Smart Redundancy config. to help aliviate these concerns.