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future of clustering & mct

tl:dr: does mct have a future or is it getting phased out.heya,we recently got 4 7850's to replace some aging cisco nexus's, they won our public tender easily & specs are impressive. we are a heavy user of vpc on the nexus side, but replacing this with mct has proven to be a challenge. our tender specified as minimal feature l3 redundancy for ipv6, so we're bound to 10.0.10 or higher.we also required link bundeling over 2 devices running independant operating systems while presenting themselves as a single device to the other end: which mct (multi chassis trunking) provides.finally, pvrst needed to be supported on all links.which is when the fun started as any vlan that becomes an mct vlan disables stp. both our partner & their ruckus liasons always came with examples from the 8.0.95 docs ( https://docs.commscope.com/bundle/fastiron-08095-l2guide/page/GUID-F20E9DED-FCDA-4C3C-BBC7-19127E9E18FC.html ), in specific the last 2 mct chapters. those are notably abcent (with good reason i guess) from 10.0 docs.in the end i got a config working with mct + pvrst when using stp in "single" mode. while not what we intended it can be argued that this meets the minimum reqs detailed in our tender.my current view of mct is not really possive after all this. documentation for the 10.0.x train as it stands is quite inconsistent, troubleshooting pretty barebones, created quite a few inconsistent (different stp protocols, differing vlans, etc) mct's which still got accepted, snmp support for mct also seems to have gotten lost somewhere along the way, issu for clusters seems to talk about stacks instead. our partner also let slip they only had 1 client which used mct & tried to push us to going for a stack instead.however, i'm running out of time & need to get these in production. since our partner has been excellent in other projects they won i don't want to return these switches due to being non complaint (since i already sent back the 8200's due to no redundant&hot swap fans & psu's - at least the model they proposed) and as noted above mct in 10.0 seems like it can use some love: i'll be going for stacking instead of clusters.long intro , now to the question: what's the plan for mct? from what the rumormill told me 10.0.x was a major rework of the code make it less complex going forward. is mct low in the todo queue (for whatever reason), is a replacement in the works, is it being phased out? i started this project on 10.0.10a, used each release including cd versions up until the 10.0.20 i'm on now, but the release notes are silent on mct items.all that said: kudos to the ruckus support staff. this might be the second time in 20 years that support was lightning fast to respond, actually knew the products they support, had frequent & to the point feedback. and actually got the bugs resolved.(this was fun: "ping vrf tstix 10.40.69.252 source 10.40.69.2532" - and 2532 is not a typo - case 01631172)

vSZ-H Mesh Not Working

I was testing a deployment of Virtual SmartZone High Scale 6.1.2.0.441 with a bunch of R850 APs and tried to connect one AP via Mesh.Sadly, I wasn't able to get this AP to work. When I tried to connect the R850 AP via Mesh, it would stay at "Offline" and start Broadcasting the RescueME SSID eventually.General Setup: vSZ-H with 3 Interfaces. vSZ Control interfaces are10.2.1.1/16,10.2.1.2/16,10.2.1.3/16.10.2.0.0/16 is located in VLAN 2. VLAN 2 has a DHCP server.All APs except the one that is supposed to be connected via Mesh were set to "Mesh Mode: Root".First Attempt:APs have Management VLAN 2 set, Ports on Switch (ICX7650-48ZP) where APs are connected are pure trunk ports and AP has to do the VLAN Tagging for Management1. Onboard AP via cable connection and wait until it's fully upgraded and configed, set AP Mesh Mode to Mesh AP only, wait until configed and online. Remove AP cable connection and power via PoE injector -> AP will not connect, will never show as online(did not try Zero Touch Mesh)Second Attempt: I thought the management VLAN is an issue, so I removed the management VLAN and configured the switch ports as dual-mode (access VLAN 2 and trunk for Client VLANs).1. Onboard AP via cable connection and wait until it's fully upgraded and configed, set AP Mesh Mode to Mesh AP only, wait until configed and online. Remove AP cable connection and power via PoE injector -> AP will not connect, will never show as online2. Onboard AP via Zero Touch Mesh: AP will show in "Mesh" View Mode -> Approve There. Also Approve AP in the Group View. However, AP will never show as Online, only as offline.I tried to do some troubleshooting, but I couldn't get any meaningful info. I plugged in a cable into the Mesh AP and sshed into it. It recognised the neighbours when I executed `get mesh` and also seemed to have the correct SSID etc..Any ideas how to troubleshoot this?

Access point lights don't stop blinking

Followed instructions from Ruckus customer support and my access points are still not responding. 

Acces points are not responding

Tried some points indicated. Access point lights are still blinking and other lights are off

Loop on access sw is Affecting distribution switch uplink

Hiwe have a branch office ( 2 Avaya ERS4826GTS-pwr+ in stack) connected to our HQ .here the ToplogyHQ -----Avaya ERS4826GTS-pwr+ in stack1/25---------VLAN238-------1/2/8 ICX7250-24P in stack Avaya ERS4826GTS-pwr+in stack2/25--------VLAN238----------2/2/8 ICX7250-24P in stackthenICX7250-24P in stack1/2/26---------VLAN238-----1/2/1ICX7250-24P -------VLAN 237 ------VLAN 80 ------VLAN 238we have multiple loop issue on VLAN 237 but the problem is that UPLINK onAvaya ERS4826GTS-pwr to HQ goes down due to this loop !can you PLease help preventing the loop to affect the AvayaERS4826GTS as it put down all the site

Assign Policy Based on Device Name

Is there a way to assign a policy based on the device name? I am trying to do something clever with the workflow to pick up the device name, and pass it to the USERNAME variable, and then using a RADIUS attribute group assign the policy based on a regex of the device name, but I can't seem to get it to work.Any guidance would be great!ThanksJames