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New APs coming up as Virtual Controller (VC)

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  • 1.  New APs coming up as Virtual Controller (VC)

    Posted 2 days ago

    Setting up AP-635s on new Aruba Central Cloud and they keep coming up as a VC.  I have another AP plugged into the same provisioning switch, but on a different vlan.  How do I prevent new APs from booting up as VC?  Do I need to unplug other APs even if they are on a different vlan?



  • 2.  RE: New APs coming up as Virtual Controller (VC)

    EMPLOYEE
    Posted 2 days ago

    if you are using instant AP firmware, the first AP on a subnet/VLAN always comes up as VC.

    if you want all the IAPs to join the same cluster then they must be on the same subnet/VLAN



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  • 3.  RE: New APs coming up as Virtual Controller (VC)

    Posted 21 hours ago

    What mode do you want or would you expect the APs to come up with?

    If you want to upgrade to AOS10, just let them come up and upgrade them later. For Instant mode (AOS8) what ariyap mentioned is correct and APs in different VLANs will form separate clusters with one VC per VLAN.



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  • 4.  RE: New APs coming up as Virtual Controller (VC)

    Posted 19 hours ago
    I would like them to come up as a standalone AP, not VC.  I am running AOS10.  There's got to be a setting somewhere in the default group to control this.




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  • 5.  RE: New APs coming up as Virtual Controller (VC)

    EMPLOYEE
    Posted 11 hours ago

    The AOS10 APs should not show VC at all. If they do the may be these are  brand new APs that still do not have AOS10, thats why they come up as instant APs till they get upgraded to AOS10. So you can set firmware compliance for that group to automatically upgrade them to AOS10.



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  • 6.  RE: New APs coming up as Virtual Controller (VC)

    Posted 9 hours ago
    Yeah, they were shipped with aos8 and the compliance is set to have them update to 10.  I found that if I give them enough time, they eventually reboot to 10 and are no longer VC.  Wierd. 

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  • 7.  RE: New APs coming up as Virtual Controller (VC)

    EMPLOYEE
    Posted 9 hours ago

    ok thats what I had expected to happen. but the UI should refresh fast after the new AP is now upgraded to AOS10.

    But it won't impact operations, it will be a AOS10 AP. 



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