Setting Aruba Ap60/61 Parameters - Aruba AP60 Installation Manuals

Setting Aruba AP60/61 Parameters

1 From the apboot prompt, configure the host information, if
necessary.
In order to provide centralized management of the APs, each Aruba AP
downloads its software image and configuration files from a master Mobility
Controller.
Setting the correct host information depends on the following:
Does your network use direct IP addresses or DNS with host names?
If using host names, is aruba-master acceptable for the master Mobility
Controller, or do you need to define a different name?
Depending on your answers, select one of the following steps:
My network uses DNS and the aruba-master host name is acceptable.
This is the default. It requires your DNS to be configured to resolve
"aruba-master" to the IP address of the master Mobility Controller.
Unless your system has been previously configured for different set-
tings, you can skip to Step 2.
Otherwise, if your system was previously configured for a different
setup, manually set the servername environment variable to the default
host name:
apboot> setenv servername aruba-master
—The master and serverip environment variables also affect how AP source
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files are selected and should be cleared when using this approach. To clear a
variable, enter the setenv variable command with no host name or address
value:
apboot> setenv master
apboot> setenv serverip
When finished, proceed to Step 2.
My network uses DNS, but I will use a different host name for the Mobility
Controller.
This requires that the servername variable be configured with your cho-
sen host name for the master Mobility Controller. It also requires that
your DNS be configured to resolve the specified host name to the IP
address of the master Mobility Controller.
To manually set the host name, use the following command:
apboot> setenv servername <Mobility Controller host name>
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