Wireless Access

All,

I'm fairly tech savy but a newbie when it comes to Aruba and networking.  I'm hoping this borad can help.

I am attempting to improve the coverage in my home and yard with multiple APs.  Previously I had one AP (IAP-205) and went through the setup process.  No problem - everything was working great.

I added a second one (IAP-215) a few months ago, and it was a bit flaky (or I was a bit flaky) but ended up getting it added to the network with no issues.

I am now attempting to add two more APs (IAP-224) and is where the problems begin.  I plugged in the first one last night and everything was going fine.  The web instance showed me the AP.  I renamed it and put in a DB value for the external attenees.  It told me to rebot, so I did.  At that point the device never reappeared with the other two APs on my network.  At one point, as I was attempting to refresh the instant.arruba...  it showed up by itself on the network (with all the clients connected to it) then promptly disappeared and hasn't come back sense.  I believe that I had told the original AP-205 to be the master, but can't recall if I did so for the first 224.

The second IAP-224 was plugged in and appears to be working fine, but it never popped up on the instant.arruba site to even configure.

Any thoughts/help that this group could provide?  

Thanks!

Were they all at the same version of software and on the same L2 network?

The swarm should self-manage unless you've got a VLAN or configuration issue, so I'll assume one of those ;)

Just to ask the obvious: all iAP are in the same VLAN?

If you told one to be the master, rathern than letting them elect one, that's OK - unless you've told two to be master. In my testing of that "accident" they argue and force all iAP to soft-reset every few minutes.

You might try powering down all iAP, then bringing up just the problem one and checking the configuration. Then repeating with the others.

Had to reboot everything and it ended up working.  Thanks for help.