Trapeze MP-372 AP's no signal.

[Snookered]

I have a number of access points that appear to be not working properly. They have three LED's all showing as Amber.

A solid amber middle LED means something along the lines of the following:

 

"MP access point is waiting to receive booting instructions and a configuration file from an MX" Taken from the Juniper website.

 

The MX in question is a Trapeze MX8 and this was installed 5 years ago with the rest of the network, we've never had an issue until now, and have paid annually for a service contract that's never been used, but this years support was missed (ICT coordinator!). Anyway I don't have a password to access the web interface, I have asked the support company for that info and the silence is deafening.

To stump up a grand just to get a password seems daft, but that maybe the only solution.

Any other things (other than switching the MX8 on and off) I could try? All of the switches show as being connected in my server room?

Cheers

[paulfinlay]

three amber lights mean the AP hasn't got a connection to the controller. Watch the AP and if the lights flash off and back on every 30 secs it hasn't got an IP addresses, if they flash every 60 secs it's got an address but can't contact the controller. Try patching a laptop into an APs switchport and see if you get an IP and if you can ping the controller.