Gateway 7001 Series Navigating to an AP by using its IP address in a URL, Navigating to information for a specific AP and managing standalone APs

Navigating to information for a specific AP and managing standalone APs

In general, Gateway 7001 Series self-managed APs are designed for central management of clustered access points. For access points in a cluster, all access points in the cluster reflect the same configuration. In this case, it does not matter which access point you actually connect to for administration.

There may be situations, however, when you want to view or manage information on a particular access point. For example, you might want to check status information such as client associations or events for an access point. Or you might want to configure and manage features on an access point that is running in standalone mode. In these cases, you can navigate to the Administration Web interface for individual access points by clicking the IP address links on the Access Points tab.

All clustered access points are shown on the Cluster > Access Points page. To navigate to clustered access points, you click on the IP address for a specific cluster member shown in the list.

Navigating to an AP by using its IP address in a URL

You can also link to the Administration Web pages of a specific access point, by typing the IP address for that access point as a URL directly into a Web browser address bar in the following form:

http://IPAddressOfAccessPoint

(where IPAddressOfAccessPoint is the address of the particular access point you want to monitor or configure).

For standalone access points, this is the only way to navigate to their configuration information. If you do not know the IP address for a standalone access point, use Kickstart to find all APs on the network and you should be able to derive which ones are standalone by comparing KickStart findings with access points listed on the Cluster > Access Points tab. The APs that Kickstart finds that are not shown on the this tab are probably standalone APs. (For more information on using Kickstart, see “Running KickStart to find access points and assign IP addresses” on page 20.)