For some time a small site of our company was connected to our main site with the use of a Aruba 303H Remote Access Point.
I connected them to our Aruba 7010 controller, pushed the right configuration and everything worked fine.
Some days ago we hooked this small site to a dark fiber interconnect connection, so the RAP's are no longer needed.
At some offices at our main site people experience weak Wi-Fi connections.
As far as I know, it should be possible to configure the 303H as IAP, so I tried to perform a factory reset.
I disconnected the power supply, I connected port E0, pushed the reset button and while holding in the reset button, I started the 303H.
The system led turned from red to three short green flashes to a green 1 sec on / off pulse.
I expected to see an Aruba SSID, from which I could configure the 303H. That did not happened.
Disconnecting the E0 and connecting E1 did not help as well. The 303H did not show up in DHCP as well.
I know that there's a custom Aruba USB console cable to enter the device through the console, but I'm quite sure it can be done through the GUI a well.
It's been bothering me now for hours, so I hope someone here knows a solution.
Thank in advance !
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Jillian Corvus
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Original Message:
Sent: Jan 03, 2021 05:37 PM
From: Mark Engel
Subject: AP-303H will not boot, will not factory reset
I am trying to add an AP-303H to my existing IAP-215(s). I currently have three IAP-215 all running instant 8.6.0.6_77124
I purchased the AP-303H (three, actually) on eBay and all have the same symptoms(?):
When powered up, the system status led glows red, then briefly flashes green once, then slowly blinks green, forever.
When I try to do a factory reset the system status led follows the same pattern. I do not get a flashing green light and then another flashing green light 15 seconds later. I have followed the reset procedure multiple times on each of the three AP-303H ap's.
The radio status and poe-pse status leds never turn on.
I have tried this with no ethernet cable connecting the AP-303H to my un-managed network switch.
I have also tried it with an ethernet cable connecting them. When the cable is plugged in, I get a solid green status light on the switch (green = 1000mbits) and a randomly blinking green led on the E0 port on the AP-303H.
Is it possible that all three of these access points are locked down in such a way that they will not do a factory reset?
Or perhaps all three are defective?
Sure would appreciate any help and/or advice as to what is happening here.
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Mark
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