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Turn off WLAN at night using Aruba Central

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  • 1.  Turn off WLAN at night using Aruba Central

    Posted Jul 02, 2017 05:08 PM

    Hi all,

     

    how do I turn off WLAN transmission at night (defined time window) using Aruba Central managment system.

    It is not about blocking the access only and keeping - but turning off the RF transmissions.

     

    Thanks

    Thomas



  • 2.  RE: Turn off WLAN at night using Aruba Central



  • 3.  RE: Turn off WLAN at night using Aruba Central

    Posted Jul 04, 2017 05:05 AM

    Hi Nitesh,

     

    thanks for poiting out the solution.

     

    When all SSIDs are turned off that way - will this turn off the radio completely or will it only stop propagating the SSIDs.

     

    The requirement is to turn off radio transmission at night for health protection reasons.

     

    Thanks

    Thomas



  • 4.  RE: Turn off WLAN at night using Aruba Central

    Posted Jul 04, 2017 05:19 AM

    Hi Thomas,

     

    As per my understanding, this applies to the SSID.

     

    I think the best option is to have this controlled via switches in case your switches support some kind of POE based time-range.

     

    Switches can turn off the POE on the ports where AP's are connected based off the time range profile that you configure on the switch itself.

     

    Without POE, AP will be compleltely down.

     

    I will also try to check in parallel if the time-range on IAP can help in stopping RF transmission completely.



  • 5.  RE: Turn off WLAN at night using Aruba Central

    Posted Jul 04, 2017 10:49 PM

    Hi Thomas,

     

    Time based policy on IAP will only turn off the SSID's & not the radio itself.

     

    The best option is to check if your switches support time range based POE allocation.



  • 6.  RE: Turn off WLAN at night using Aruba Central

    Posted Jul 05, 2017 03:09 AM

    Hi Thomas,

     

    Are you using IAP's in mesh mode ?

     

    Please share the model number of IAP's being used as well.



  • 7.  RE: Turn off WLAN at night using Aruba Central

    Posted Jul 05, 2017 03:37 AM
    Hi Nitesh

    In this case it is a single IAP.

    Does this make a difference?

    Regards
    Thomas

    Sent from my iPhone


  • 8.  RE: Turn off WLAN at night using Aruba Central

    Posted Jul 05, 2017 03:43 AM

    Hi Thomas,

     

    If it is single IAP on the network, there won't be mesh involved as it will require another IAP to set up mesh.

     

    Please share the model number for the IAP



  • 9.  RE: Turn off WLAN at night using Aruba Central

    Posted Jul 05, 2017 03:50 AM
    Hi Nitesh

    I'm using a 303H (RW).

    Thanks!


  • 10.  RE: Turn off WLAN at night using Aruba Central
    Best Answer

    Posted Jul 05, 2017 09:59 PM

    Hi Thomas,

     

    In we are not using mesh ,

     

    Radio will be turned off once all SSIDs are disabled on 1xx and 3xx platforms.

     

    As you are using 303H, radio will be off as soon as SSID's are disabled due to time range getting kicked in.



  • 11.  RE: Turn off WLAN at night using Aruba Central

    Posted Jul 06, 2017 04:33 AM

    Hi Nitesh,

     

    thanks for your help and clarification.

     

    Is there a way to check the state of Radio on the AP, to confirm it is turned off completely?

     

    Thanks

    Thomas



  • 12.  RE: Turn off WLAN at night using Aruba Central
    Best Answer

    Posted Jul 06, 2017 04:50 AM

    Hi Thomas,

     

    show ap bss-table

     

    The above command output will be empty if IAP is not broadcasting any SSID on the network.

     

    We can also check :

     

    show ap debug radio-stats

     

    We can check the Rx/Tx values to make sure they are no incrementing at all.