Important Notes - Ruckus Wireless SmartCell Gateway 200 Getting Started Manual

NOTE: This is needed to securely send a package back to you that contains their
API key and digital certificate.
6 Provide all these details to dl-apr-support@ruckuswireless.com.
Once you complete the above steps, you will receive a package that contains the
API documentation, sample code, as well as a client-side certificate that you can
use to provision the AP Registrar using the APIs.

Important Notes

• To use AP Registrar API, you must pre-register an FQDN with Ruckus and
Ruckus will provide an SSL certificate, signed by a recognized certificate
authority and bearing the FQDN in the certificate's subject common name field.
• The certificate must be presented to the API server when making API requests.
The API requester must be in possession of the certificate's private key.
• The FQDN (without wildcard) in the certificate's subject common name field must
match that mentioned in the API user's user record.
• The DNS IP address of the FQDN must match the Internet routable IP address
of the computer from which the API request is generated.
• If any of the above three conditions are not met, the API request will fail with a
401 error.
Completing the AP Registrar Configuration
After you ensure that the controller and AP mappings have been configured on the
AP Registrar, you only need to connect the AP to the network, ensure that it has
Internet connectivity, and then reboot the AP.
Upon reboot, the AP will automatically attempt to discover its parent controller by
sending an HTTPS query to ap-registrar.ruckuswireless.com (the AP Registrar URL).
If the AP Registrar is provisioned and configured with the controller address for that
particular AP serial number the AP will receive the controlled address in the HTTPS
response.
If the AP is unable to discover its parent controller after the first attempt, it will
continue to do so:
• Once every 5 minutes for up to 60 minutes (12 queries)
• Once every hour for the remaining day (23 queries)
SmartCell Gateway 200 Getting Started Guide for SmartZone 3.5.1, 800-71517-001 Rev A
Ensuring That APs Can Discover the Controller on the Network
Method 1: Perform Auto Discovery of the Controller Using the AP Registrar
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