topic Re: Is there a way to script a reboot on the R700 in Access Points - Indoor and Outdoor

Is there a way to script a reboot on the R700

charlie_wallace — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 04:36:19 GMT

Is there a way to script a reboot on the R700?s like a cronjob that resets them at a given time, or every 24 hours, i find the double in performance after a reboot. I have 8 R700's on a zone director 3000 and one standalone (elsewhere)

thanks

Re: Is there a way to script a reboot on the R700

daniel_m — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 17:08:57 GMT

You should work with support to resolve the performance issues—rebooting all your APs regularly is kind of ridiculous.

Re: Is there a way to script a reboot on the R700

charlie_wallace — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 17:59:29 GMT

i've worked with support for so much time and different issues on these ap's that i've more or less just given up with them, at some point the money spent troubleshooting them just diminishes , this is just yet another issue.

Re: Is there a way to script a reboot on the R700

michael_brado — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 02:11:47 GMT

APs can be manually rebooted from the ZD's WebUI Monitor/Access Points page,
using the icon to the right, with two blue revolving arrows. We have updated bug
fixes and radio performance issues in our 9.8.2.0.15 firmware just posted, to use
for further evaluation.

Re: Is there a way to script a reboot on the R700

charlie_wallace — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 02:31:15 GMT

i'll give it a go, thanks.

Re: Is there a way to script a reboot on the R700

sean_mcbride_71 — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 15:56:27 GMT

I too am in need of the ability to script scheduled reboots of specific groups of AP's due to connection issues that users are experiencing that are resolved with a reboot of the AP. I do not want to spend hours clicking one by one in the controller to accomplish this task.

Re: Is there a way to script a reboot on the R700

michael_brado — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 17:26:46 GMT

Sean, we have a ZD feature request pending to allow AP commands to an AP-Group rather than single AP or all connected APs (FR-1094). If you determine the IP address of the APs you wish to reboot by whatever scripting method, the AP CLI command to do so is 'reboot'.

rkscli: reboot

Rebooting... please wait.

Re: Is there a way to script a reboot on the R700

sean_mcbride_71 — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 13:41:44 GMT

I have a RuckusZD3000 controller, from the controller is there a way to reboot multiple AP's at the same time and schedule the reboot for off hours?

Also with the devices requirement of needing to know what to login as BEFORE the login credentials how can any of this be scripted?

Re: Is there a way to script a reboot on the R700

bill_burns_6069 — Mon, 04 May 2015 21:23:57 GMT

Yes. There is a way to do this via a cron job on a linux machine.
See this link:
https://github.com/bot779/ruckusconf

I don't know who else uses this (if anyone) but it works well for me.
Let me know if/what issues you have once you install it.

Re: Is there a way to script a reboot on the R700

majestic_steel — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 15:52:10 GMT

Can you post an example script for:
https://github.com/bot779/ruckusconf

Re: Is there a way to script a reboot on the R700

bill_burns_6069 — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 16:10:13 GMT

If you look at the ruckusconf script here:
https://github.com/bot779/ruckusconf/blob/master/ruckusconf
You'll see a few examples embedded in the "source" of the script itself.

If you're specifically looking for an example of rebooting an individual AP though the controller, here it is:
./ruckusconf --debug --command 'rksap_cli -a 24:c9:a1:29:47:a0 "reboot"' 192.168.3.180

In this example, the IP refers to your controller and the MAC address refers to your AP.

The commandline would be very different if you wanted to use ruckusconf to contact the AP directly. (as opposed to going through the controller)
That (I believe) would be:
./ruckusconf --ap --command "reboot" 192.168.3.99
where the IP refers to the AP and not the controller.

Also, I've got some new code that allows me to schedule commands on the controller without using cron, so I don't have to embed passwords into a cron job.
If there's interest in that, I could post it as well.

Re: Is there a way to script a reboot on the R700

sean_mcbride_71 — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 17:55:15 GMT

Thank you for all your assistance. I would be very interested in your new code. Thanks again.

Re: Is there a way to script a reboot on the R700

majestic_steel — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 17:57:10 GMT

Yes, I would like to see the new code that would allow to schedule commands on the controller without using cron. Thanks!

Re: Is there a way to script a reboot on the R700

bill_burns_6069 — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 21:33:00 GMT

OK. There's a new version of the ruckusconf script to support that capability.
(and a new script that calls it)
So if (for some reason) you want the old version of ruckusconf, you should download that now before I upload new revisions.

Re: Is there a way to script a reboot on the R700

bill_burns_6069 — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 21:50:46 GMT

Sean:
You mentioned the need to reboot "specific groups" of APs.
I had an issue where some APs (always the same 2 models of AP) would have their 5-Gig radios stop working.
Do you need something that would detect a fault like this and only reboot those APs or did you want to create a static list of APs and always reboot only those APs?

I've got a script called "rebootat3am" that will wait 'till 3:30am the next morning and then reboot all APs.

I only ran that script briefly because it seemed to increase the behavior where the APs would all "guess" the same channel (after the reboot) and then spend time "detecting interference" and jumping between channels.

If "rebootat3am" is what you guys want, I'll upload that.
(but beware of the consequences)

Then (If that works for you) I should be able to tweak things to make it reboot all APs at every 3:30am.

If you want to reboot just a few APs, I should probably modify the script to do that.

Re: Is there a way to script a reboot on the R700

bill_burns_6069 — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 05:10:51 GMT

Here is the scheduled AP reboot script.
https://github.com/bot779/ruckusconf/blob/master/rebootat3am
It requires the latest version of the ruckusconf script.
https://github.com/bot779/ruckusconf/blob/master/ruckusconf

"rebootat3am" should prompt you for your ruckus password, test the password by logging into your controller, wait 'till 3:30am the next day and then run the "reboot" command.

WARNING:
It is intended to reboot all of the APs connected to your controller.
This will disrupt your wifi connectivity.
Test it at a non-critical time.

In order for it to work, you will have to change the hard-coded IP address (at the end of the script) to the IP of your controller.
If you want the reboot to be scheduled at a different time, that will require editing the script.
You will need to leave this script running in a window 'till the scheduled time.

If you have any questions, let me know.

Re: Is there a way to script a reboot on the R700

michael_brado — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 17:51:41 GMT

Thanks for sharing Bill.

Re: Is there a way to script a reboot on the R700

majestic_steel — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 17:52:45 GMT

Thanks Bill!

Re: Is there a way to script a reboot on the R700

bill_burns_6069 — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 19:42:13 GMT

Let me know if that worked for you.

Re: Is there a way to script a reboot on the R700

sean_mcbride_71 — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 19:48:46 GMT

Unfortunately I am not a Linux guy, so my bumbling through trying to get these to work is a real headache. But I do appreciate your help and sharing your code.