7363 AP Want to set up as a standalone off the controller (without the controller seeing the AP )

[angelo_de_luca]

Hi

we are a small education department with a ZD 1100 and Licensed for only 12 APs, we have aquired another 7363 AP, this cannot go onto the Controller as its not licensed, (the limit is already reached)  we want to set it up as a standalone non-managed with the same SSID as the establishment so a few devices can connect to it in a small out house room, it will be AC powered not POE, I have gone into the AP and set up manually, BUT after a few days the controller see's the non managed stanadlone AP (as number 13) and disconnects it, or disconnects and random other.

I have also made sure of disabling on the controller to "automatically allow new AP's to connect"

but still this hasnt worked, the controller still eventually see's the AP thinks it as no 13 and disconnects.


Help!

Many Thanks

[angelo_de_luca]

Hi

Thanks for all the info and support on this, this is how I got a standalone AP working, without being seen by the ZD Controller. (the process was what Michael Brado suggested ) this was the procedure:

 Tell the AP to connect to a "fake" controller –

1. Before connecting the Access Point in network, connect Access Point to laptop and SSH into it using application like Putty.

2. Provide the IP address of the Access Point(192.168.0.1) to ssh into it. Log in with AP credentials

Username: super
password: sp-admin

3. After successful login, execute the below commands:

rkscli: set director ip 1.1.1.1

** Please reboot for this change to take effect

OK

rkscli: reboot

After successful reboot of Access Point, now connect it back to the network.

Now Access Point will try to discover the ZD with IP address 1.1.1.1(which is not present) and hence would work in Standalone mode.

[michael_brado]

Then, all you need is to find your AP MAC address on the DHCP server to determine what IP it was given on the network.

Note:  If you plan to have Standalone mode APs in the network, manually assign them an IP address outside of the
DHCP scope used by the server, with a 'reserved address', like your ZoneDirector, so you can always 'find' them, or
on another VLAN, like Sid suggested.

[terrence_mitchu]

SSH into the AP and reset it to factory. Download 

To do this:
ssh
set factory
reboot

Then make the AP grab a DHCP IP address, once it does, configure it back with static (Preferred).

Once AP is on static, download the file to make the ruckus go stand alone mode from Ruckus Website.

Hope this helps.