I would honestly not touch the whitelist and allow the controller to auto-approve and automatically add devices to the whitelist (with the mac address as the ap-name). This will allow you to provision access points normally without the fear that the whitelist will overwrite it.
The whitelist is an opportunity to control ap name and ap-group from a single interface, but it locks you out from doing it in any other interface, which is restrictive. The search function is also not as robust in the whitelist interface as it is in the AP provisioning interface, so for managing hundreds of access points, the provisioning interface just works better, in my opinion.
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Original Message:
Sent: Jan 11, 2023 11:37 AM
From: nathan millward
Subject: Mobility Master stopped from rename AP.
This is how I had to do it, by deleting first. The whitelist-db commands were allowing me to change the group of the AP, but not to rename it. Had to delete via MM CLI, delete it from the GUI, leave it while I had a phone call, then add it back via CLI.
Original Message:
Sent: Jul 22, 2021 03:44 PM
From: Colin Joseph
Subject: Mobility Master stopped from rename AP.
Try deleting the AP from the whitelist. It should take time (10 minutes, maybe) to reboot and appear online again.
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Original Message:
Sent: Jul 22, 2021 02:36 PM
From: Gonzalo Lopez
Subject: Mobility Master stopped from rename AP.
Through the GUI I changed it from Managed network -- Configuration -- Access Points -- Whitelist as seen in the next screenshot (although I had to manually reboot the AP after since it didn't automatically restarted):
In the CLI with the next command:
(ArubaMM-VA_9B_89_98) *[mynode] #ap-rename ap-name oldAP newAP
Version of MM and MC 8.5.
Best regards.
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Gonzalo Lopez Moreira
Original Message:
Sent: Jul 22, 2021 01:46 PM
From: Colin Joseph
Subject: Mobility Master stopped from rename AP.
What command did you use to change the AP through the CLI?
Where did you attempt to change it through the GUI?
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Original Message:
Sent: Jul 22, 2021 11:30 AM
From: Gonzalo Lopez
Subject: Mobility Master stopped from rename AP.
#Edit
Ok, I changed the name through CLI and it worked. So, changing via GUI with this method doesn't work but over CLI it does.
Thanks Colin!!
Hello Colin, how are you?
I'm having the same problem as dmendez7. I changed the AP name through the managed network level on the mobility master, the ap rebooted but it didn't changed the name.
Any other suggestion?
Thanks in advance.
Best regards.
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Gonzalo Lopez
Original Message:
Sent: Apr 27, 2018 05:35 PM
From: Colin Joseph
Subject: Mobility Master stopped from rename AP.
You shouldn't have to do this, but change the name or ap-group of a single AP in the cpsec whitelist. Reboot the AP and see if it takes the new name or ap-group.