Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company ARUBA70 Manual Do Utilizador

Part 0500044

Installation Guide

October 2004

In order to provide centralized management of the APs, each Aruba AP downloads its 
software image and configuration files from a master Aruba WLAN Switch.

Setting the correct host information depends on the following:

z

Does your network use direct IP addresses or DNS with host names?

z

If using host names, is 

aruba-master acceptable for the master WLAN switch, or do 

you need to define a different name?

Depending on your answers, select one of the following steps:

z

This is the default. It requires your DNS to be configured to resolve “

aruba-mas-

ter” to the IP address of the master Aruba WLAN Switch. Unless your system has 
been previously configured for different settings, you can skip to Step 2.

Otherwise, if your system was previously configured for a different setup, manually 
set the 

servername environment variable to the default host name:

The master and serverip environment variables also affect how 

AP source files are selected and should be cleared when using this 
approach. To clear a variable, enter the setenv variable command 

with no host name or address value:

apboot> setenv master
apboot> setenv serverip

When finished, proceed to Step 2.

z

This requires that the 

servername variable be configured with your chosen host 

name for the master Aruba WLAN Switch. It also requires that your DNS be config-
ured to resolve the specified host name to the IP address of the master Aruba WLAN 
Switch.

To manually set the host name, use the following command:

apboot> setenv servername aruba-master

apboot> setenv servername <WLAN switch host name>