User guide

Advanced Configuration AP-700 User Guide
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access to the AP is not protected, an unauthorized person could reset the AP to factory defaults and thus gain control of
the AP. The user can disable the hardware configuration reset functionality to prevent unauthorized access.
The hardware configuration reset feature operates as follows:
• When hardware configuration reset is enabled, the user can press the Reload button on the power injector for 10
seconds when the AP is in normal operational mode in order to delete the AP configuration.
• When hardware configuration reset is disabled, pressing the Reload button when the AP is in normal operational
mode does not have any effect on the AP.
• The hardware configuration reset parameter does not have any effect on the functionality of the reload button to
delete the AP image during AP boot loader execution.
• The default hardware configuration reset status is enabled. When disabling hardware configuration reset, the user is
recommended to configure a configuration reset password. A configuration reset option appears on the serial port
during boot up, before the AP reads its configuration and initializes.
• Whenever the AP is reset to factory default configuration, hardware configuration reset status is enabled and the
configuration reset password is set to the default, “public”.
• If secure mode is enabled in the AP, only secure (SSL, SNMPv3, SSH) users can modify the values of the Hardware
Configuration Reset Status and the configuration reset password.
Configuration Reset via Serial Port During Bootup
If hardware configuration reset is disabled, the user gets prompted by a configuration reset option to reset the AP to
factory defaults during boot up from the serial interface. By pressing a key sequence (ctrl-R), the user gets prompted to
enter a configuration reset password before the configuration is reset.
NOTE: It is important to safely store the configuration reset password. If a user forgets the configuration reset password,
the user will be unable to reset the AP to factory default configuration if the AP becomes inaccessible and the
hardware configuration reset functionality is disable.
Configuring Hardware Configuration Reset
Perform the following procedure to configure Hardware Configuration Reset and to set the Configuration Reset
Password. See Figure 4-22.
1. Click Configure > Management > CHRD.
Figure 4-22 Hardware Configuration Reset