Cisco Systems 1300 Checking Power, Checking Basic Configuration Settings

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Cisco Aironet 1300 Series Wireless Outdoor Access Point/Bridge Hardware Installation Guide

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Chapter4 Troubleshooting Autonomous Access Points and Bridges

Checking Power

Checking Power

You can verify the availability of power to the access point/bridge by checking the power injector LED

(see Figure 4-2):

•Power LED

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Green color indicates input power is being supplied to the bridge.

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Red color indicates an overcurrent or overvoltage error condition—disconnect input power from

the power injector, check all coax cable connections for a possible short, wait approximately 1

minute, and reconnect input power to the power injector. If the LED turns red again, contact

technical support for assistance.

Note The power injector requires approximately 50 seconds to recover from a n overcurrent or

overvoltage condition.

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Off indicates input power is not available—verify that the power module is connected to the

power injector and that AC power is available or that 12- to 40-VDC input power is connected

to the power injector.

Checking Basic Configuration Settings

Mismatched basic settings are the most common causes of lost wireless connectivity. Check the

following areas.

When you connect an autonomous access point/bridge running Cisco IOS Release 12.3(2)JA or later

software with a default configuration to your LAN, the access point/bridge requests an I P address from

your DHCP server and, if it does not receive an IP address, continues to send requests indefinitely. To

eliminate this behavior, you must access the access point/bridge through its console port and assign a static

IP address.

When you connect an autonomous access point/bridge running Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)JA2 or earlier

software with a default configuration to your LAN, the access point/bridge requests an I P address from

your DHCP server and, if it does not receive an IP address, it assigns a default IP address of 10.0.0.1

In Cisco IOS Release 12.3(2)JA2 and earlier, on initial power up the access point/bridge defaults to the

Install-Mode role with the radio enabled and supports these SSIDs:

•SSID is autoinstall for the Install-Mode role.

•SSID is tsunami for Root AP and Workgroup Bridge roles.

In Cisco IOS Release 12.3(4)JA or later, on initial power up the access point/bridge defaults to the Root

AP role with the radio disabled and no default SSID configured .