New Mobility enables Cisco WLCs to be compatible with converged access controllers with Wireless Control Module (WCM) such as the Cisco Catalyst 3850 Series Switches and the Cisco 5760 Series Wireless LAN Controllers. New Mobility provides the ability to run Mobility Controller (MC) functionality on a Cisco WLC in the Converged Access mode with a Catalyst 3850 mobility agent (MA)

The Mobility Controller is a part of a hierarchical architecture that consists of a Mobility Agent and Mobility Oracle.

A group of Cisco Catalyst 3850 Series Switches' Mobility Agents can form a switch peer group. The internal Mobility Agent of Cisco WLCs form an independent switch peer group. The Mobility Controller, Mobility Agent, and Mobility Oracle can be in a single Cisco WLC. Each Mobility Controller forms a subdomain that can have multiple switch peer groups. The Cisco WLCs are Mobility Agents by default. However, Cisco Catalyst 3850 Series Switch can function both as Mobility Agent and Mobility Controller, or only as a Mobility Agent.

By default, New Mobility is disabled. When you enable or disable new mobility, you must save the configuration and reboot the controller.

Note	With Release 8.1 in a New Mobility environment, Cisco WLCs running Cisco Wireless software cannot function as mobility controllers (MC). However, the Cisco WLCs can function as guest anchors.

• Enable or disable new mobility on the controller by entering this command:

  config mobility new-architecture {enable | disable}

  Note	When you enable or disable new mobility, you must save the configuration and reboot the controller.

• Enable the Mobility Oracle or configure an external Mobility Oracle by entering this command:

  config mobility oracle{enable| disable | ip ip_address}

  Here, ip_address is the IP address of the Mobility Oracle. The Mobility Oracle maintains the client database under one complete mobility domain. It consists of a station database, an interface to the Mobility Controller, and an NTP/SNTP server. There can be only one Mobility Oracle in the entire mobility domain.

• Configure the MAC address of the member switch for compatibility between the flat (old) and new mobility by entering this command:

  config mobility group member add ip_address{[group-name] | mac-address | [public-ip-address]}

  where ip_address is the IP address of the member.

  group-name is the member switch group name, if it is different from the default group name.

  mac-address is the MAC address of the member switch.

  Note	If the controller has NAT configured, the public IP address will be the network address translated IP address.

  Note	New mobility does not support IPv6.

• View the details of the mobility controllers according to the Mobility Oracle by entering this command:

  show mobility oracle summary

• View the summary and details of the Mobility Oracle client database by entering this command:

  show mobility oracle client {summary | detail}

• Verify the mobility statistics by entering this command:

  show mobility statistics

• Verify the mobility configuration by entering this command:

  show mobility summary

• Save your changes by entering this command:

  save config

• Enable or disable debugging of mobility packets by entering this command:

  debug mobility packet {enable | disable}

• Enable or disable debugging of the Mobility Oracle events and errors by entering this command:

  debug mobility oracle {events | errors} {enable| disable}