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A customer wants a network engineer to design a Cisco wireless solution that will have redundancy through SSO and LAG. APs in the executive office must reassociate to the WLC as soon as possible in the event of a failure. The WLCs are located in a remote data center. The head office uses a WAN for connectivity with the data center. Which priority must be incorporated in the design to be assigned to the executive APs?
Cisco WLC AP Failover Priority governs the order in which APs are processed when a WLC recovers and APs begin re-associating. The priority levels are: Critical, High, Medium, and Low. During recovery situations, the WLC will accept and process AP join requests in order of priority --- Critical priority APs are processed first, before all other priority levels. In a deployment where the WLC is located in a remote data center connected via WAN, the join process for all APs is slower due to WAN latency and potential bandwidth constraints. Under these conditions, assigning Critical priority to executive office APs ensures they are at the front of the processing queue and restore service before lower-priority APs. The executive office designation implies business-critical operations requiring the fastest possible wireless restoration --- a requirement that directly maps to the Critical priority level. High priority (Option A) would position the executive APs second in the queue behind any Critical priority APs. Medium (Option B) and Low (Option C) would place them further down the processing order. Reference: WLSD Study Guide --- AP Failover Priority Configuration, N+1 and SSO Redundancy Design, WAN-Linked Controller Deployments.