User's Guide
Table Of Contents
- Product Overview
- Basic Installation & Setup
- Mounting Installation
- Controller Management
- Access your wireless controller management page
- Change your controller administrative login password
- Change your controller LAN IP address
- Upgrade your controller firmware
- View your controller system log
- Backup and restore your controller configuration settings
- Reboot your controller
- Set idle timeout for users logged into controller management
- Reset your controller to factory defaults
- Controller default settings
- Create additional users to access controller management
- Set your controller date and time settings
- Power over Ethernet (PoE) Settings
- Power over Ethernet (PoE) Scheduling
- Access point management and configuration
- Technical Specifications
- Troubleshooting
- Appendix
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Moving APs to a new controller
It is recommended to regularly back up the configuration of your wireless controller. In
the case of controller failure/replacement or adding a new controller to the network,
APs can be moved to other controllers to be management or restored to a replacement
controller unit. If a controller fails or is removed from the network, the APs will continue
to function and keep their current wireless settings. In order to restore the APs to a
replacement controller, (1) the controller IP settings must be configured to be on the
same IP network as the APs (2) you must use the administrator password configured on
the APs from the previous controller (same as the admin management password of
previous controller) to reassign the APs to the new controller (3) after you have
reassigned APs to the new controller successfully, you can restore your controller
configuration from a previous backup file. Whether reassigning new APs to a new
controller or replacing an existing controller, you can use the steps below to reassign
your APs.
Important Note: (1) the controller IP settings must be configured to be on the same IP
network as the APs (2) you must use the administrator password configured on the APs
from the previous controller (same as the admin management password of previous
controller) to reassign the APs to the new controller (3) after you have reassigned APs to
the new controller successfully, you can restore your controller configuration from a
previous backup file.
1. Log into your controller management page (see “Access you wireless controller
management page” on page 10).
2. Click on Monitor and click Devices and the connected APs will automatically appear in
the Device List as Lock status.
3. Under the Action column next to the AP you would like to reassign, click .
4. You will be prompted to enter the AP user name and password. Enter the AP user
name and password and click adopt. Note: This will be the same admin user name and
password of the previous controller that the AP was assigned.
5. After the AP has been successfully reassigned to the new controller, the AP status will
change from to in the list.
Note: If the AP is still in Lock status and is not successfully reassigned, the user name and
password entered may be incorrect. If the correct user name and password cannot be
recovered and use to reassign the AP, the AP must be reset to factory default in order to
reassign the APs to the current controller.