Requirement:
By Default Aruba Instant access points will be contacting Activate server irrespective if access points are manged via Activate to provision them in Central / Airwave.
Solution:
Starting from Aruba instant 8.4.0.0, we have ability to stop Aruba instant access points contacting activate.
Configuration:
Below commands will help to disable IAP contacting activate,
9c:8c:d8:c9:39:52# configure
We now support CLI commit model, please type "commit apply" for configuration to take effect.
9c:8c:d8:c9:39:52 (config) # activate-disable
Once we enable this knob, IAP's will be no longer manged in Aruba central also we can't provision any rules in activate.
9c:8c:d8:c9:39:52 (config) # no activate-disable -------------> To enable the activate service again.
Verification
9c:8c:d8:c9:39:52# show activate
IAP MAC Address :9c:8c:d8:c9:39:52
IAP Serial Number :CNH7KD5517
Cloud Activation Key :FFGO8E1C
Activate Server :device.arubanetworks.com
Activate Status :admin-disabled-by-cli . -----> to verify if activate status is disabled
Last provision time :2019-04-05 10:02:03
Provision interval :0 minute