User's Guide

Wireless Array
78 The Web Management Interface
XMS-Managed Arrays Restrict Local Management
For Xirrus deployments of any size, we recommend that you use the Xirrus
Management System (XMS) to manage the network rather than directly
managing each Array individually. When Arrays are under management by XMS,
configuration changes typically cannot be made directly by the WMI and CLI.
This ensures that the Array configuration remains consistent with its
corresponding settings in XMS, and that no settings are configured that would be
incompatible with XMS management of the Array.
The Array has two operating modes: XMS Managed and Non-XMS Managed.
XMS Managed Mode:
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The Array is put into this mode if it is being managed by Release 6.5 or
higher of either XMS or XMS Cloud, and if it has been assigned to a
Profile Network that has been defined in XMS.
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Users, even those with administrator privileges (read-write), are
restricted to read-only privileges when accessing the WMI (via HTTP and
HTTPS) and CLI (via SSH and Telnet), regardless of user account write
privileges. You will be advised of this at login with the following
message:
Figure 35. Notice for XMS-Managed Array
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XMS managed mode may be overridden for troubleshooting or
emergency purposes using the xms-override CLI command (see “Top
Level Commands” on page 401). After using this command, the user
account’s access privileges for the Array apply to the CLI session, but