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Navigating to information for a specific
AP and managing standalone APs
In general, Gateway 7001 Series self-managed APs are designed for central management
of clustered access points. For access points in a cluster, all access points in the cluster
reflect the same configuration. In this case, it does not matter which access point you
actually connect to for administration.
There may be situations, however, when you want to view or manage information on a
particular access point. For example, you might want to check status information such as
client associations or events for an access point. Or you might want to configure and
manage features on an access point that is running in standalone mode. In these cases,
you can navigate to the Administration Web interface for individual access points by
clicking the IP address links on the Access Points tab.
All clustered access points are shown on the Cluster > Access Points page. To navigate to
clustered access points, you click on the IP address for a specific cluster member shown
in the list.
Navigating to an AP by using its IP address in a URL
You can also link to the Administration Web pages of a specific access point, by typing
the IP address for that access point as a URL directly into a Web browser address bar in
the following form:
http://IPAddressOfAccessPoint
(where IPAddressOfAccessPoint is the address of the particular access point you want
to monitor or configure).
For standalone access points, this is the only way to navigate to their configuration
information. If you do not know the IP address for a standalone access point, use Kickstart
to find all APs on the network and you should be able to derive which ones are standalone
by comparing KickStart findings with access points listed on the
Cluster > Access Points
tab. The APs that Kickstart finds that are not shown on the this tab are probably standalone
APs. (For more information on using Kickstart, see “Running KickStart to find access points
and assign IP addresses” on page 20.)