Reset The Access Point To Factory Default Settings - NETGEAR WAX214 User Manual

NETGEAR WiFi 6 AX1800/AX3600 Dual Band PoE/PoE+ Access Points, WAX214 and WAX218
The local device password is the one that you specified. The password is
case-sensitive.
The Device Status page displays.
4. Under System Manager, select Firmware.
The page displays the Firmware Upgrade section and the Backup/Restore Settings
section.
5. In the Backup/Restore Settings section, click the Restore New Setting Choose File
button and navigate to and select the saved configuration file (that is, the backup
file).
The name of the backup file is backup-NETGEARXXXXXX-yyyy-mm-dd.tar.gz,
in which XXXXXX represents the last six digits of the MAC address of the access
point (unless you changed the AP name, which is also referred to as the device
name), yyyy is the year, mm is the month, and dd is the date.
An example of a name of a backup file is
backup-NETGEARFFFDB7-2020-11-16.tar.gz.
6. Click the Import button.
The page displays the restoration progress.
WARNING: To avoid the risk of corrupting the firmware, do not interrupt the
restoration. For example, do not close the browser, click a link, or load a new page.
Do not turn off the access point. Wait until the access point finishes.
When the restoration is finished, the login page displays.
Reset the access point to factory default
settings
Under some circumstances (for example, if you lost track of the changes that you made
to the configuration of the access point or you move the access point to a different
network), you might want to erase the configuration and reset the access point to factory
default settings (see Factory default settings on page 137).
If you do not know the current IP address of the access point, first try to use the NETGEAR
Insight app or an IP scanner application to detect the IP address before you reset the
access point to factory default settings.
You can use either the physical Reset button on the back panel of the access point (see
Hardware interfaces model WAX214 on page 13 or Hardware interfaces model WAX218
on page 18) or the software Reset button in the local browser UI.
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