Can i use 2 Wlan Profiles on a Device with Same SSID?

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Franko Heckert
EHG Service GmbH (Ernstings family)

Hey there,

we must change the wlan certificate on the devices. At the moment the RADIUS ISE use his old certificate, but next week we will switch to the new certificate.

I have created a new Profile with the certificate und the wlan settings and deployed this on the devices (Adnroid ET51 and MC33). The devices get the new certificate but on the wlansettings he says "ignored".

The wlansettings use the same SSID and informations, only the certificate is new. Get MobiCOntrol a Problem with this or when we switch the certificate on the ISE, mobicontrol switch the wlansettings automatic on the device?

Hase someone experience with this case?

2 years ago
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Raymond Chan Diamond Contributor
2 years ago

Attempt to deploy multiple Wifi profile payloads (within one or multiple profiles) with the same SSID should likely fail for all except the first one deployed for any given device. 

If there is only one usable Wifi router/hotspot and no other alternative connection (cellular, bluetooth, etc) between your MobiControl server and devices, then task scheduler profile payload deployed with PROPER procedure/schedule can likely be used to perform your required WLAN certificate change/renewal task.  

Without the expertise and skill to do it that way, your simplest alternative is to deploy a second Wifi profile of a TEMPORARY Wifi hotspot to ALL devices BEFORE upgrading the certificate in the production Wifi router/hotspot hardware, and then use this TEMPORARY (TRANSITIONAL) Wifi connection to deploy the updated Wifi profile (with renewed certificate replacing the old certificate) to the devices.  This transitional Wifi connection hardware/infrastructure can be powered off and the associated Wifi profile payload can eventually be removed AFTER ALL devices have been deployed with the new Wifi certificate.

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GPMOD@SOTI
2 years ago

Hi Franko,

Thanks for posting on SOTI Pulse and thanks Raymond for responding to the post. 

Has any of the suggestions provided by Raymond helped to resolve your query? 

Please let me know. 

Thank you. 

Kind regards,

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