Table 1

LED Status Indications (continued)

 

 

 

 

 

Message

 

Status

Message

Type

 

LED

Meaning

 

 

 

Operating status

Blinking amber

Software upgrade in progress

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cycling through green,

Discovery/join process in progress

 

 

red, and amber

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rapidly cycling

Access point location command invoked

 

 

through red, green, and

 

 

 

amber

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blinking red

Ethernet link not operational

 

 

 

Boot loader warnings

Blinking amber

Configuration recovery in progress (MODE

 

 

 

button pushed for 2 to 3 seconds)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Red

Ethernet failure or image recovery (MODE

 

 

 

button pushed for 20 to 30 seconds)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blinking green

Image recovery in progress (MODE button

 

 

 

released)

 

 

 

Boot loader errors

Red

DRAM memory test failure

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blinking red and amber

FLASH file system failure

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blinking red and off

Environment variable failure

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bad MAC address

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ethernet failure during image recovery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Boot environment failure

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No Cisco image file

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Boot failure

 

 

 

Cisco IOS errors

Red

Software failure; try disconnecting and

 

 

 

reconnecting unit power

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cycling through red,

General warning; insufficient inline power

 

 

green, amber, and off

 

 

 

 

 

Troubleshooting the Access Point Join Process

Access points can fail to join a controller for many reasons: a RADIUS authorization is pending; self-signed certificates are not enabled on the controller; the access point’s and controller’s regulatory domains don’t match, and so on.

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