Cisco WAP551 Administration Manual page 217

Single Point Setup
Cluster Firmware Upgrade
Cluster Firmware Upgrade
STEP 1
STEP 2
STEP 3
Cisco Small Business WAP551 and WAP561 Wireless-N Access Point
• Rate—The rate in megabits per second at which this access point is currently
transmitting. The current rate is always one of the rates shown in Supported Rates.
• Signal—The strength of the radio signal detected from the access point, measured in
decibels (dB).
• Beacon Interval—The beacon interval used by the access point.
• Beacon Age—The date and time of the last beacon received from this access point.
Cluster provides a centralized cluster firmware upgrade feature that allows all the APs in the
cluster to be upgraded from the Dominant AP (Cluster Controller). The Cluster firmware
upgrade can be performed only from the Dominant AP.
On the cluster firmware upgrade page the WAP devices detected are listed in a table and the
following information is shown:
• Location—Description of where the access point is physically located.
• IP Address—The IP address for the access point.
• MAC Address—Media Access Control (MAC) address of the access point. The
address is the MAC address for the bridge (br0), and is the address by which the WAP
device is known externally to other networks.
• Current Firmware Verison—The current running firmware version for the access
point.
• Firmware-transfer-status—Shows whether the firmware download and validation in
cluster member is None/Started/Downloaded/Success/Fail/Abort_admin/Abort_local/
Dap_resigned. .
• Firmware-transfer-progresss-bar—Shows the progress bar for firmware download.
To select the cluster member for upgrade:
Select Single Point Setup > Cluster Firmware Upgrade in the navigation pane.
Select the checkbox of the AP to be upgraded.
Click Save.
To get the latest cluster firmware upgrade status:
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