Aruba: Temporarily enabling BLE beacon, gathering data, and disabling

We have two AP provisioning profiles, the “default” enables the USB port and the “no-usb” disables the port. AP group is currently referencing the “no-usb”  ap provisioning-profile “default” ! ap provisioning-profile “no-usb” usb-power-mode disable ap-poe-power-optimization enabled   ap-group “Warehouse-Lab” virtual-ap “TEST” dot11a-radio-profile “Warehouse-Lab-ARM-a” dot11g-radio-profile “Warehouse-Lab-ARM-g” ap-system-profile “BuildingProfile” provisioning-profile “no-usb”   BLE scanner (android app “BLE…

Aruba: Setting up an Aruba IAP for a Site Survey

Note: This is pre-InstantOS 4.2 I used to do my site surveys with a lightweight AP and a small controller. I have since moved to IAPs. Once you get the initial setup done, you can just power it up and go at each survey point. Here are the steps: Connect a console cable to the…

Aruba AP-270 series mesh AP unable to form uplink

Problem: AP-270 (had this happen on a 274 and a 275) does not join the controller. I saw this on both a Mesh Portal and Mesh Point. After verifying proper power, consoling into the ap showed the following logs at the end of the boot cycle: ~ # [   40.013529] wl0: set MESH_ID(mesh-secshack, 13) [  …