D-Link DWS 3000 user manual Detailed Managed Access Point Status, Discovery Reason

7 Monitoring Status and Statistics

the AP. Any wireless clients associated with the access point will be disassociated. To refresh the status information for the AP, click Refresh

Table 28 describes the fields you see on the Detail page for the managed access point status.

Table 28. Detailed Managed Access Point Status

Field	Description
MAC Address -	The label at the top of the table shows the MAC address and location of the
Location	AP. The location is the value configured in the Valid AP database.
IP Address	The network IP address of the managed AP.
Profile	The AP profile configuration currently applied to the managed AP, the
	profile is assigned to the AP in the valid AP database. Note: Once an AP is
	discovered and managed by the WCS, if the profile is changed in the valid
	AP database (either locally or on the RADIUS server) the AP must be reset
	to configure with the new profile.
Status	The current managed state of the AP. The possible values are:
	• Discovered - The AP is discovered and by the switch, but is not yet
	authenticated.
	• Authenticated - The AP has been validated and authenticated (if
	authentication is enabled), but it is not configured.
	• Managed - The AP profile configuration has been applied to the AP and
	it's operating in managed mode.
	• Failed - The WCS lost contact with the AP, a failed entry will remain in
	the managed AP database unless you remove it. Note that a managed AP
	will temporarily show a failed status during a reset.
Discovery Reason	This status value indicates how the managed AP was discovered, the status is
	one of the following values:
	• IP Poll Received - The AP was discovered via an IP poll from the WCS,
	its IP address is configured in the IP polling list.
	• Peer Redirect - The AP was discovered through a peer switch redirect,
	the AP tried to associate with another peer switch and learned the
	current WCS IP address from the peer (peer learned WCS IP address in
	RADIUS server response when validating the AP).
	• Switch IP Configured - The managed AP is configured with the WCS IP
	address.
	• Switch IP DHCP - The managed AP learned the current WCS IP address
	through DHCP option 43.
	• L2 Poll Received - The AP was discovered through the D-Link Wireless
	Device Discovery protocol.

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