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Provisioning Access Points 19
Chapter 2
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:
z
Does your network use direct IP addresses or DNS with host names?
z
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:
z
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:
N
OTE
— The
master
and
serverip
environment variables also affect how AP source
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.
z
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 aruba-master
apboot> setenv servername
<Mobility Controller host name>