User's Manual

Configuring the Wireless AP
hwc_apstartup.fm
Discovery and registration overview
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, March 2008
76 HiPath Wireless Controller, Access Points and Convergence Software V5 R1 , C20/C2400 User Guide
Left LED
The Left LED indicates the high-level state of the Wireless AP during the
initialization and discovery process:
Left and Right LEDs
The Right LED indicates the detailed state during the initialization and discovery
processes:
Composite view of the three LEDs
The Center, Left and the Right LEDs work in conjunction to indicate the general,
high-level state and the detailed state respectively.
The following table provides a composite view of the three LED lights of the
Wireless AP’s state:
Solid Red Irrecoverable error
Solid Green Discovery finished via Ethernet link
Solid Orange/Amber Discovery finished via WDS link
Left LED HiPath Wireless AP’s high-level state
Off Initialization
Blinking Green Network Discovery
Solid Green Connecting with the HiPath Wireless Controller
Table 6 Left LED and Wireless AP’s high-level state
Left LED Right LED HiPath Wireless AP’s detailed state
Off
Off Initialization: Power-on self-test (POST)
Blinking Green Initialization: Random delay
Solid Green Initialization: Vulnerable period
Blinking Green
Off Network Discovery: 802.1X authentication
Blinking Green Network Discovery: Attempting to obtain IP
address via DHCP
Solid Green Network Discovery: Discovered HiPath
Wireless Controller
Solid Green
Off Connecting to HiPath Wireless Controller:
Attempting to register with the HiPath Wireless
Controller
Blinking Green Connecting to HiPath Wireless Controller:
Upgrading to higher version
Solid Green Connecting to HiPath Wireless Controller:
Configuring itself
Table 7 Left and Right LEDs and Wireless AP’s detailed state
Center LED HiPath Wireless AP’s status
Table 5 Center LED and Wireless AP’s status