Being the primary wireless engineer at work, I'm always looking at and trying different vendors or newer versions of software before purchasing or implementing. In testing the latest version of Cisco's Wireless Control System (WCS), I discovered it can only be installed on certain flavors of Linux and Windows Server 2003. This was a problem for me as the PC I intended to use in my lab had Windows XP on it. I assumed Cisco, as always, had a cryptic way to do whatever you want, but finding instructions is never easy. After a brief search of the internets with no luck, I contacted one of the Cisco SE's and had him dig into some of the fine print to find out how to skip the OS check when installing WCS in Windows. Turns out it's quite simple, and I'll put the instructions here for the goog to grep so at least it'll be somewhere in the ether.Open the command line, go to the executable and run it followed by this command:
"-DCHECK_OS=false"
Example: "C:\WCS-STANDARD-K9-5.2.130.0.EXE -DCHECK_OS=false"
For me, it was case sensitive, so keep that in mind if it doesnt work. After running it with that command, it installed on XP like a champ. Fine for a lab environment.
