Wireless Access

We have 40 AP 105s and a 3400 controller. Out of those 40 we originally had 5 setup as a demo and used static IP addressing and now that I want to swap them to DHCP like the rest it wont fully take. 

In the controller GUI I go to Configuration>Wireless> AP Installation select the AP and click provision. Once there I scroll down to IP Settings and select Optain IP Address Using DHCP, it clears all the static info, I click Apply and Reboot and it reboots.

When it comes back online the AP does get a DHCP address but the radio button for DHCP is cleared and Use the following IP address is selected again and all the fields are blank except for Subnet Mask and Domain Name which have repopulated to the previous values.

All of the rest of the configs for the APs are the same as the other ones that do work with DHCP properly. 

It does this for all 5 of them. What can I do to get them to comply and switch to DHCP? 

Thanks,

Jeff

You can try console into AP and executing the following command:

>purge

>save 

>boot

Is there any other way to reset them? They are in ceiling enclosures and not in very easily accessible locations. 

I forgot this one , you can actually execute this one from the controller if the controller can still see them :

(controller) #ap wipe out flash ap-name "ap-name"

Nice i didnt know that one

Thanks for sharing!

Should it do something after that? I have executed the command and it goes back to the enable prompt like it accepted it, but nothing ever happens. I have tried it by ip-addr as well.

Do a show log all | include "ip-address" 

And it should show you whether or not it worked  :

COMMAND:<ap wipe out flash ip-addr 10.10.10.2 > -- command execution failed

It showed command execution failed for all three of my attempts.

apboot did succesfully reboot the device, so it is taking some commads.