The ap is set static ip or dhcp ip at your scenario?
if you have ip information
just login into the GUI, and convert the ap to cap mode.
if you don't have console, there's no way to check ap is in what mode.
also, 565 and 515 is UAP AP, maybe you can wait about 5 miniute, the ap will turn to cap mode, if they can communicate the controller
if not, just login to them and convert it. (you need have ap ip information.)
if ap in iap mode, just make sure they are all in the cluster, then turn them to cap. it will easy make them join controller together.
Original Message:
Sent: Jul 29, 2022 05:21 PM
From: Dennis Sevilla
Subject: Provisioning AP-515s
This is a headscratcher for me. So i put together a staging area for new APs. It's a 1x 6300M smart rate switch, all default config (vlan 1 everywhere), hooked up to another switch in Prod that has our AP vlan. I hooked up a few APs out of the box to the staging area (mix of 565 and 515) and to my surprise it worked! The controller saw all of them, IP addresses were assigned, sw updated, etc. However, when i put another batch in, none were detected this time. There 2 green lights on the APs so my guess is it's gone IAP. It's weird that the first batch (same box of 10) didn't do this, no?
Currently I have 310 active APs running 8.7.1-9. It's a mix of AP-315s mostly. I'm not at capacity as far as APs go. There are 2x 7210's as controllers. I don't have a console cable for the new APs unfortunately and my CLI skills is very rudimentary. Can someone shed light on what's going on here? How can I make sure that the APs look for the controllers first before going on IAP?