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Remotely Factory Default an AP

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  • 1.  Remotely Factory Default an AP

    Posted Mar 07, 2017 03:26 PM

    Is there any way to remotely factory default an access point (in my case an AP225)?  Can it be done from the controller?  Can it be done from a telnet session?

     

    I have an AP which is not trivial to physically get to that I need to factory default.  It's stuck to some AOS8 controller which I no longer want this specific AP on ... and I am unable to make it move ...

     

    Any thoughts?



  • 2.  RE: Remotely Factory Default an AP
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    Posted Mar 07, 2017 03:37 PM

    Not that I am aware of.  So you can not reprovision the AP from the controller and put it in a different AP group with a different system profile to a controller you want to move the AP to?

    If not then you have to physically console into the device and purge it.



  • 3.  RE: Remotely Factory Default an AP

    Posted Jul 19, 2017 10:14 PM

    Factory reset a single AP:

    From the Master controller CLI in enable mode:

    1. Go into configuration mode: #configure terminal 
    2. Go into provisioning mode: #provision-ap 
    3. Retrieve current provisioning parameters of the AP to be (re)-provisioned (default for new AP's): #reset-bootinfo {ap-name | ip-addr | wired-mac} <variable>

    Brant Highers

    Solutions Architect

    Profesional Services Enablement

     


  • 4.  RE: Remotely Factory Default an AP

    Posted Dec 02, 2022 12:39 PM

    Hi Brant,

    uhm, I have a short question, do you know if the option still works today with ARUBA OS8.x?

    The KB of commands still shows the reset-bootinfo command, but so far I'm not able to use the "provision-ap" command in the CLI of the MC.

    Does you or anyone other community member have an idea? :)

    Thank you very much in advance!

    Best regards

    Patrick


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  • 5.  RE: Remotely Factory Default an AP

    Posted Dec 05, 2022 04:44 AM
    If you have a MM/MCR, you may need to do the action from there. In my lab (8.10), I can enter the provision-ap command on both MCR as MD:
    (md7005) #provision-ap reprovision
all                     Reprovision all APs in provisioning_ap_list
ap-name                 Reprovision AP with this name
ip-addr                 Reprovision AP at this IP address
ip6-addr                Reprovision AP at this IPv6 address
serial-num              Reprovision AP with this serial number
wired-mac               Reprovision AP at this MAC address

(md7005) #provision-ap reprovision all
(md7005) #res
reset-bootinfo          Restore factory default boot variables
restore                 restore file or configuration​


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  • 6.  RE: Remotely Factory Default an AP

    Posted May 22, 2023 06:28 AM

    Hoping it OK to keep this thread going:

    We provision APs with whitelist-db. 
    Lately had lots of APs to re-name or re-group (the new group was to move them onto a new cluster via LMS IP). Mostly this went fine using Excel and the following:

    whitelist-db cpsec modify mac-address <MAC> ap-group <New Group>
    Followed by:
    ap-regroup wired-mac <MAC> <New Group>

    But some APs got 'stuck' in some way and required a further
    reset-bootinfo wired-mac <MAC>

    My problem is that some further APs refuse to change group or name. The whitelist-db shows the correct info, but the ap-regroup, ap-rename, and reset-bootinfo commands cause the APs to reboot, but they come back up with old details rather than what the whitelist shows.
    I tried the provision-ap reprovision wired-mac <MAC> commmand but that didn't help either. 
    I think I was flat out of luck at the point reset-bootinfo failed to work. What do I do now?

    e.g. Trying to rename and regroup cluster02-test / SouthW-Std-InRoom to Test-AP / South-Std (attempted in separate steps for name and group)

    show whitelist-db cpsec mac-address 28:de:65:05:1a:73
     
    Control-Plane Security Allowlist-entry Details
    ----------------------------------------------
    MAC-Address        AP-Group   AP-Name      Enable   State                   Cert-Type     Description  Revoke Text  Last Updated
    -----------        --------   -------      ------   -----                   ---------     -----------  -----------  ------------
    28:de:65:05:1a:73  South-Std  Test-AP  Enabled  certified-factory-cert  factory-cert                            Mon May 22 10:43:37 2023

    show ap details wired-mac 28:DE:65:05:1A:73
     
    AP "cluster02-test" Basic Information
    -----------------------------------------
    Item                 Value
    ----                 -----
    AP IP Address        10.25.15.63
    LMS IP Address       10.25.112.17
    Group                SouthW-Std-InRoom
    Location Name(FQLN)  N/A
    Status               Up
    Up time              4m:24s
    AP "cluster02-test" Hardware Information
    --------------------------------------------
    Item                Value
    ----                -----
    AP Type             503H
    Serial #            CNLNKSLBL5
    Wired MAC Address   28:de:65:05:1a:73

    (net-mc07) [MDC] *#show ap active ap-name cluster02-test
     
    Active AP Table
    ---------------
    Name                Group              IP Address   AP Type  Flags  Uptime   Outer IP  Cluster Role  Radio 0 Band Ch/EIRP/MaxEIRP/Clients  Radio 1 Band Ch/EIRP/MaxEIRP/Clients  Radio 2 Band Ch/EIRP/MaxEIRP/Clients
    ----                -----              ----------   -------  -----  ------   --------  ------------  ------------------------------------  ------------------------------------  ------------------------------------
    cluster02-test  SouthW-Std-InRoom  10.25.15.63  503H     E2a    17m:49s  N/A       A             AP:5GHz-HE:157/14.0/14.0/0            AP:2.4GHz-HE:11/7.0/20.0/0



    Thanks 



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  • 7.  RE: Remotely Factory Default an AP

    Posted May 22, 2023 10:07 AM

    Think I've answered my own question!

    I've been picking off APs from Airwave and hadn't realised that all the MAC addresses I worked with previoulsy were lower case, but the most recent ones from AW are upper case. It wasn't until I put these into the previous spreadsheet that I spotted this difference. The commands below work just fine for lower case MACs, but there's no error to tell you that upper case MACs don't work. So it's a bit odd that in some instances Aruba shows lower case MAC, and in others, it shows upper case. PITA when you forget this is significant for commands.



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