Marcus. I spent almost 6 hours on the phone with support yesterday. Unfortunately they seemed confused as well. I think what Scott mentions is what may have happened. My question though is why. Probably because I dont even know what a LAG group is. So I certainly did not set one up. lol I mentioned this to support as well but since I had pulled the 225 at this point, I guess he was just more concerned with fixing the cluster first. Which they were unable to before I got crabby (yes I did say 6 hours on the phone) and demanded we pick up in the morning.
Last night I ended up fixing 10.3.x.x by shutting EVERY AP off and bringing them up one IDF at a time. After the first one booted I was unable to connect to what I had set the VC to be, but found what IP was grabbed by the AP in DHCP and connected to that. 'Instant' SSID only. I had backups of the config but it's easy enough to setup 5 SSIDs and tweak a few settings, so I just reset up the controller. Every other AP in the cluster connected to the new controller no problem.
I also had issues at the 10.2.x.x at some point where it was not responding to the VC ip I had previously set. It was also crumbling. I quickly shut down data and poe to both ports on all 3 remaining 225s that were up. THIS caused 10.1.x.x and 10.5.x.x to lose their controllers. I rebooted all APs one IDF at a time at each campus and everything was happy again. I did not have to reset all those up at least.
Now I have 5 very happy WLANs but without 225s. Scott, your response indicates to me that there is an issue with this device and I should hold off using it at all, yet. Is this the case? Or should I research and look into setting up a LAG group Marcus? Can you assist me? We are using 2500 switches where all 4 225s will be.
If nothing else, I would like to plug eth0 in with the 225s to get the coverage back in those classrooms (although they get enough bleedover from adjacent classrooms),
Thank you both for the insight. Any advise on how to proceed?
Brian
PS. I guess I should clarify because I didnt outright say it yet. Yes. I had both ports plugged in on the IAP225s to the same switch per AP. In all cases it is an Aruba S2500-24P