Aruba 1930 - Losing config on power loss?

[davethetekkie]

Hi all,

 

I have a really annoying issue and wondered if anyone else has seen the same thing?

 

One of my schools has invested in some new Aruba 1930 switches to replace their aged (and faulty) 10/100 switches. Today I found one totally frozen out (no access to admin panel, all LEDs on static) and restarted it (already unusual given how good HP switches tend to have been over the last few years). After restarting I completely lost all access to the Hyper-V host and the wireless controller promptly stopped talking to its APs (which promptly stopped transmitting being an ancient Juniper setup).

 

One of my colleagues then told me that he'd noticed that some of these same switches at his school had totally dumped out their config upon power loss. I then managed to reproduce the same thing on another switch for giggles... Is this just something about this model when you're not running them in cloud-managed configuration?

 

All of the new switches had their firmwares updated as part of the commissioning process and are only locally managed as the school is an ex-RM site (with some legacy issues to iron out) which doesn't use the default VLAN at all (and these switches seem to require that cloud connectivity runs via this VLAN unless I'm missing something).

 

Ultimately I've just lost the best part of a day on the first week back...

[MatthewL]

Is the config been saved to the switch as some will let you change the config but unless you save it to the switch it will dump on restart.