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  • 1.  AP315 Campus AP to Aruba Central

    Posted 25 days ago

    hi Techies,

    we have a customer with Aruba CAMPUS AP315 Access Points.

    They want to put them on Aruba Central.

    quick question,

    if we de-register them from the Aruba controller.

    put them on a separate VLAN, will they boot up (by default) looking for Aruba Central?

    regards

    Pete



  • 2.  RE: AP315 Campus AP to Aruba Central
    Best Answer

    Posted 24 days ago

    You will need to do an ap-convert process while the AP is still managed by the controller. 

    https://arubanetworking.hpe.com/techdocs/ArubaOS_8.10.0_Web_Help/Content/arubaos-solutions/access-points/conv-ap-iap.htm




  • 3.  RE: AP315 Campus AP to Aruba Central

    Posted 24 days ago

    This webpage contains a lot of useful information about migrating APs to Central with AOS10

    https://arubanetworking.hpe.com/techdocs/aos/aos10/migrate/



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    Willem Bargeman
    Systems Engineer Aruba
    ACEX #125
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  • 4.  RE: AP315 Campus AP to Aruba Central

    Posted 24 days ago

    Hi Willelm,

    thank you for your reply.

    we are going to AOS8 not AOS10.

    Regards

    Pete




  • 5.  RE: AP315 Campus AP to Aruba Central

    Posted 24 days ago

    Pete,

    The process describe on this page is the same for IAP8 and AOS10. Only difference is the software version the AP is running. 

    If you migrate from controller based to Central I would suggest to go to AOS10 and not IAP8.



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    Willem Bargeman
    Systems Engineer Aruba
    ACEX #125
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  • 6.  RE: AP315 Campus AP to Aruba Central

    Posted 9 days ago

    Pete,

    We just went through this process 4 months ago. as already mentioned in other most excellent posts you have to convert them. 

    I'll add my warning here, as it isn't posted elsewhere. You have to have a controller in order to convert the 315 AP's they must be connected to it. 

    Once our controllers were converted to AOS 10 and added to Central our spare 314/315 APs became bricks with no way to convert them. 

    I did hear from Aruba that there is a way, but it is not easy and requires physical serial console access to each AP,  a bunch of undocumented commands in the bootloader of the AP, uncompressed firmware files loaded from a TFTP server etc... not worth the time and energy on an older AP.   




  • 7.  RE: AP315 Campus AP to Aruba Central

    Posted 9 days ago

    hi ,

    thanks for getting back.

    thank you i found those excellent posts and we managed to convert an AP315.

    I used the convert and specifically the tftp method to convert (on the CLI).

    i used the link where "ariyap" (sorry don't know his name) replied and i followed this process and it worked just fine.

    cheers

    Pete