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Installed 4 Stand Alone APs and Want to configure....

brian_bingham — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 04:53:24 GMT

Hello we have installed 4 stand alone 7352 AP's without a Zone Director. Is there a way we can change the WPA2 password other than connecting directly to each of the APs to change the password?

Re: Installed 4 Stand Alone APs and Want to configure....

srinivas_kudama — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 13:37:40 GMT

Unfortunately, there is no option to this :(

You need to connect to each AP wired/wireless to access it and get this changed.

Cheers,
Srini

Re: Installed 4 Stand Alone APs and Want to configure....

keith_redfield — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 17:17:20 GMT

...which of course can be scripted if it's something to do frequently.

Re: Installed 4 Stand Alone APs and Want to configure....

drc — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 17:07:14 GMT

How about using Flexmaster via:

1. Creating an AP config template (Configure > Standalone APs > Config Template)
2. Provisioning said template via configuration task

Re: Installed 4 Stand Alone APs and Want to configure....

brian_bingham_5 — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 16:46:51 GMT

Yes but dont you have to have ZoneDirector Controller to use the Flexmaster?

Re: Installed 4 Stand Alone APs and Want to configure....

brian_bingham_5 — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 16:47:33 GMT

Yes this is something they will want to do every 3 months...

Re: Installed 4 Stand Alone APs and Want to configure....

harish_kumar_56 — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 17:01:43 GMT

You can manage Standalone AP's, Zone Directors and ZF 7731 bridges by the FM. and you can create a template push the template to all connected standalone AP's at once. You can also schedule this task as per your requirements.

Re: Installed 4 Stand Alone APs and Want to configure....

drc — Sun, 04 Aug 2013 23:06:39 GMT

In reply to Brian Bingham:
> Yes but dont you have to have ZoneDirector Controller to use the Flexmaster?

To clarify, no sir, you don't.

Thus, one answer to your question would be FlexMaster (albeit, a $1000 + a VM or server answer, not to mention added time to configure and shoot out a template).

Another, the one that Mr. Redfield mentioned, would be to script it.

I think the latter is better, but requires a programmer/scripter to build a frontend that will scrape the HTML page of each AP, then submit changes. We have done this for the guestpass creation, as in we have a web frontend that connects to several ZD's guestpass page, and "one clicks" a guestpass for Wi-Fi portal password generation. All the enduser have to do is access a single webpage, click two dropdown menus, then submit.