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Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide
Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide
Page 79
March 2012
Section 7 - Maintaining the Access Point
Section 7 - Maintaining the Access Point
This section describes how to maintain the UAP.
From the UAP Administrator UI, you can perform the following maintenance tasks:
•) “Saving the Current Conguration to a Backup File” on page 79
•) “Restoring the Conguration from a Previously Saved File” on page 80
•) “Rebooting the Access Point” on page 81
•) “Performing AP Maintenance” on page 81
•) “Resetting the Factory Default Conguration” on page 81
•) “Upgrading the Firmware” on page 81
•) “Packet Capture Conguration and Settings” on page 83
Saving the Current Conguration to a Backup File
The AP conguration le is in XML format and contains all of the information about the AP settings. You can download
the conguration le to a management station to manually edit the content or to save as a back-up copy.
You can use HTTP or TFTP to transfer les to and from the UAP. After you download a conguration le to the
management station, you can manually edit the le, which is in XML format. Then, you can upload the edited
conguration le to apply those conguration settings to the AP.
Use the following steps to save a copy of the current settings on an AP to a backup conguration le by using TFTP:
1.) Select TFTP for Download Method.
Figure 44 - Manage this Access Point’s Conguration - Save (TFTP)
2.) Enter a name (1 to 63 characters) for the backup le in the Conguration File eld, including the .xml le name
extension and the path to the directory where you want to save the le.
3.) Enter the Server IP address of the TFTP server.
4.) Click Download to save a copy of the le to the TFTP server.
Use the following steps to save a copy of the current settings on an AP to a backup conguration le by using HTTP:
1.) Select HTTP for Download Method.
Figure 45 - Manage this Access Point’s Conguration - Save (HTTP)
2.) Click the Download button.
A dialog box displays verifying the download.