So thanks to Colin for pointing in the right direction I was able to figure this out. We are a college is cisco proprietary on our network infrastruture. Our Aruba APs range from the 205 to 225 with our controllers being 7210s.
So what we had to do was a few things. We heard that the aps required 30w and that the cisco 2960 switches only sent out 15w (unless you speficially tell it). Combine that with an ios that didnt allow for proper poe distribution, it only allowed for one link to work in a etherchannel environment (lacp, lldp).
So this is what I had to do
Each interface that had an Aruba 225 required port-channeling. To do I checked the ios and if it wasnt the latest version I upgraded was to c2960s-universalk9-mz.150-2.SE10a. Almost immediately the links started working. Weird huh?
The configuration for each link and the port-channel follows. I made sure the links were shut down prior to the change and then reenabled them and voila they now work. Before this I never saw the ports with "bndled" on them. Now it is showing and works fine. I hope this helps someone out there. :)
Configuration:
SSWC-ER-1#sh ru int gi1/0/1
Building configuration...
Current configuration : 165 bytes
!
interface GigabitEthernet1/0/1
switchport access vlan 1722
switchport mode access
power inline static max 30000
spanning-tree portfast
channel-group 2 mode active
end
interface GigabitEthernet1/0/2
switchport access vlan 1722
switchport mode access
power inline static max 30000
spanning-tree portfast
channel-group 2 mode active
end
Current configuration : 84 bytes
!
interface Port-channel2
switchport access vlan 1722
switchport mode access
end
After the ios upgrade and reenable of the ports
CWC-269-1#sh etherchannel 2 detail
Group state = L2
Ports: 2 Maxports = 16
Port-channels: 1 Max Port-channels = 16
Protocol: LACP
Minimum Links: 0
Ports in the group:
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Port: Gi2/0/14
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Port state = Down Not-in-Bndl
Channel group = 2 Mode = Active Gcchange = -
Port-channel = null GC = - Pseudo port-channel = Po2
Port index = 0 Load = 0x00 Protocol = LACP
Flags: S - Device is sending Slow LACPDUs F - Device is sending fast LACPDUs.
A - Device is in active mode. P - Device is in passive mode.
Local information:
LACP port Admin Oper Port Port
Port Flags State Priority Key Key Number State
Gi2/0/14 SA down 32768 0x2 0x0 0x20F 0x45
Age of the port in the current state: 0d:17h:41m:18s
Port: Gi2/0/15
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Port state = Down Not-in-Bndl
Channel group = 2 Mode = Active Gcchange = -
Port-channel = null GC = - Pseudo port-channel = Po2
Port index = 0 Load = 0x00 Protocol = LACP
Flags: S - Device is sending Slow LACPDUs F - Device is sending fast LACPDUs.
A - Device is in active mode. P - Device is in passive mode.
Local information:
LACP port Admin Oper Port Port
Port Flags State Priority Key Key Number State
Gi2/0/15 SA down 32768 0x2 0x0 0x210 0x45
Age of the port in the current state: 0d:17h:41m:18s
Port-channels in the group:
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Port-channel: Po2 (Primary Aggregator)
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Age of the Port-channel = 3d:19h:07m:19s
Logical slot/port = 5/2 Number of ports = 0
HotStandBy port = null
Port state = Port-channel Ag-Not-Inuse
Protocol = LACP
Port security = Disabled
Time since last port bundled: 3d:12h:38m:13s Gi2/0/15
Time since last port Un-bundled: 2d:20h:34m:53s Gi2/0/14