6 Managing and Maintaining D-Link Access Points

Management > Advanced page. From the Advanced page, you can also manually change the RF channel and power for each radio on an AP.

Figure 54. Advanced AP Management

Each AP managed by the D-Link WLAN Controller Switch is listed by its MAC address and location. The location is based on the value in the RADIUS or local Valid AP database. Table 21 describes the Advanced features you can configure for the AP.

Table 21. Advanced AP Management

Field

Description

Debug

To help you troubleshoot, you can enable Telnet access to the AP so that you

 

can debug the device from the CLI.

 

The Debug field shows the debug status and can be one of the following:

 

Disabled

 

Set Requested

 

Set in Progress

 

Enabled

 

To change the status, click the Debug status link. The Managed AP Debug

 

page appears. Table 22 describes the fields on the new page.

 

 

Channel

Click the Channel link to access the Managed AP Channel/Power Adjust

 

page. From that page, you can set a new channel for Radio 1 or Radio 2. The

 

available channels depend on the radio mode and country in which the APs

 

operate. Table 23 describes the fields on the new page.

 

 

Power

Click the Power link to access the Managed AP Channel/Power Adjust page.

 

From that page, you can set a new power level for the AP. Table 23 describes

 

the fields on the new page.

 

 

 

Enabling AP Debugging

You can enable debugging on an AP to allow Telnet access to the access point. Once you Telnet to the AP, you can issue commands from the CLI to help you troubleshoot.

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