Network Management

I am looking for a way to restart our Aruba AP's every night. I have looked through the current solutions but non og them seems to be usable. We have 40 AP's in an cluster connected to a Zyxel switch and use Aruba Central for administration.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Henrik Ravn

Hi,

I am not sure why you want to do this, but if you really need it you can do it via the Device Management API.. You can send a reboot command.. You thus need to write a small script that reboots the 40 APs using this API and you schedule to run it daily..

If all 40 access points are connected to the same switch maybe the easiest way is to reboot the switch, unless you have other things connected that needs to remain available?

what will be the use case?

I cannot imagine any cause for this demand.

We are having a problems with the connection between our Evoko Liso terminals and the AP's. On a freshly restartet AP, there is not any problems with the connection between the Liso terminals and the AP's, but after some time, the Liso terminals can't connect any more. Restarting the Liso terminals does not help, but restarting the Aruba AP solves the problem for a while.

We have a request about the problem a Evoko, but they don't seem to take the problem seriously.

What is your DHCP lease time for the subnet that those terminals are on?  Is it possible that it is too short, and when they renew their ip address, they get a different ip address?

Lease time is 10 minutes.

We see the problem after several days and most often on AP's that has many users. And after the problem starts (terminals is not connecting to the AP) the problem consist also when there not is any other connected to the AP.

Other types of terminals, PC, phones etc. are not having any problems with the AP.

That short lease time is very unusual.  Is it that way because of limited lease space?  It is possible that the device is reconnecting with a different ip address and as a result not passing traffic.  Is there any way to increase the lease time?

If you can SSH into the VC, there is a "disconnect-user" command that you can run to disconnect users individually or on an entire SSID, so that you wouldn't have to reboot the entire cluster just for a few devices:  https://www.arubanetworks.com/techdocs/Instant_85_WebHelp/Content/instant-cli/disconn-user.htm?Highlight=disconnect

Another idea could be using the time Range function. With that you are able to enable a SSID based on a time Range basis.