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Cisco IOS Software Configuration Guide for Cisco Aironet Access Points
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Chapter4 Configuring the Access Point for the First Time
Automatic Configuring of the Access Point
Step2 You need to set the correct time zone for the AP to have the correct time, This can be done using the
command clock timezone TIMEZONE HHMM, where:
TIMEZONE is name of timezone like IST, UTC, or others.
HH is the Hours offset from the timezone
MM is the Minutes offset from timezone
Step3 For instances where the download of the configuration information file from the SCP server fails, you
can set a time interval after which the AP retries to download it again. This retry interval can be set using
the command dot11 autoconfigd ownload retryinterval min MIN max MAX, where:
MIN is minimum number of seconds
MAX is maximum number of seconds between retries. After every failed download, the retry
interval doubles, but the retires stop the interval when becomes larger than MAX.
Enabling Autoconfig via a Boot File
You can enable Autoconfig by also providing the following commands in a boot file as a part of the
DHCP IP configuration.
The format of the contents of the boot file returned by the DHCP/BootTP server should be as shown in
the following example:
dot11 autoconfig add env var AUTO_CONFIG_AP_FUNCTIONALITY val YES
dot11 autoconfig add env var AUTO_CONFIG_USER val someusername
dot11 autoconfig add env var AUTO_CONFIG_PASSWD val somepasswd
dot11 autoconfig add env var AUTO_CONFIG_SERVER val scp.someserver.com
dot11 autoconfig add env var AUTO_CONFIG_INF_FILE val some_inf_file.xml
sntp server 208.210.12.199
clock timezone IST 5 30
dot11 autoconfig download retry interval min 100 max 400
end
Checking the Autoconfig Status
To know the Autoconfig status, use the show dot11 autoconfig status command.
Examples AP1600-ATT# show dot11 autoconfig status
Dot11 l2tp auto config is disabled
1600-89-absim# show dot11 autoconfig status
Auto configuration download will occur after
45 seconds
1600-89-absim# show dot11 autoconfig status
Trying to download information file from server