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3. In the AP list section of the Configuration > Wireless > AP Installation > Provisioning window, select
one of the following mesh for on the AP:
n Mesh portal—The gateway between the wireless mesh network and the enterprise wired LAN.
n Mesh point—APs that can provide traditional Dell WLAN services (such as client connectivity, intrusion
detection system (IDS) capabilities, user roles association, LAN-to-LAN bridging, and Quality of Service
(QoS) for LAN-to-mesh communication) to clients on one radio and perform mesh backhaul/network
connectivity on the other radio. Mesh points can also provide LAN-to-LAN bridging through their
Ethernet interfaces and provide WLAN services on the backhaul radio
n Remote Mesh Portal: The Remote Mesh Portal feature allows you to configure a remote AP at a branch
office to operate as a mesh portal for a mesh cluster.
For detailed provisioning guidelines, caveats, and instructions, see Secure Enterprise Mesh on page 578.
Verifying the Configuration
After the AP has been configured, navigate to Monitoring>All Access Points window and verify that the AP
has an up status. The AP on your network does not appear in this table, it may have been classified as an
inactive AP for any of the following reasons:
l The AP is configured with a missing or incorrect VLAN. (For example, the AP is configured to use a tunneled
SSID of VLAN 2 but the controller doesn't have a VLAN 2.)
l The AP has an unknown AP group.
l The AP has a duplicate AP name.
l An AP with an external antenna is not provisioned with external antenna gain settings.
l Both radios on the AP are disabled.
l No virtual APs are defined on the AP.
l The AP has profile errors. For details, access the command-line interface and issue the command “show
profile errors”.
l The GRE tunnel between the AP and the controller was blocked by a firewall after the AP became active.
l The AP is temporarily down while it is upgrading its software. The AP will become active again after
upgrading.
Optional AP Configuration Settings
Once the AP has been installed and provisioned, you can use the WebUI or CLI to configure the optional AP
settings described in the following sections:
l Changing the AP Installation Mode on page 533
l Renaming an AP on page 533
l Enabling Spanning Tree on page 534
l Enabling PortFast on page 534
l Enabling PortFast On Trunk on page 535
l AP Console Access Using a Backup ESSID on page 536
l Defining an RTLS Server on page 537
l AP Redundancy on page 538
l AP Maintenance Mode on page 539
l Energy Efficient Ethernet on page 540
l AP LEDs on page 541
l Suppressing Client Probe Requests on page 541
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