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Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide
Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide
Page 16
March 2012
Section 2 - Getting Started
Basic Settings
From the Basic Settings page, you can view various information about the UAP, including IP and MAC address
information, and congure the administrator password for the UAP. The following table describes the elds and
conguration options on the Basic Settings page.
Field Description
IP Address Shows the IP address assigned to the AP. This eld is not editable on this page because
the IP address is already assigned (either by DHCP, or statically through the Ethernet
Settings page).
IPv6 Address Shows the IPv6 address assigned to the AP. This eld is not editable on this page because
the IP address is already assigned (either by DHCPv6, or statically through the Ethernet
Settings page).
IPv6 Address Status Shows the operational status of the static IPv6 address assigned to the management
interface of the AP. The possible values are Operational and Tentative.
IPv6 Autocongured
Global Addresses
Shows each automatically-congured global IPv6 address for the management interface of
the AP.
IPv6 Link Local
Address
Shows the IPv6 Link Local address, which is the IPv6 address used by the local physical
link. The link local address is not congurable and is assigned by using the IPv6 Neighbor
Discovery process.
MAC Address Shows the MAC address of the AP. The address shown here is the MAC address
associated with the management interface. This is the address by which the AP is known
externally to other networks.
Firmware Version Shows version information about the rmware currently installed on the AP. As new
versions of the WLAN AP rmware become available, you can upgrade the rmware on
your APs.
Product Identier Identies the AP hardware model.
Hardware Version Identies the AP hardware version.
Serial Number Shows the AP serial number.
Device Name Generic name to identify the type of hardware.
Device Description Provides information about the product hardware.
Current Password Enter the current administrator password. You must correctly enter the current password
before you are able to change it.
New Password Enter a new administrator password. The characters you enter are displayed as bullet
characters to prevent others from seeing your password as you type.
The administrator password must be an alphanumeric string of up to 8 characters. Do not
use special characters or spaces.
Note: As an immediate rst step in securing your wireless network, we recommend that
you change the administrator password from the default.
Conrm New
Password
Re-enter the new administrator password to conrm that you typed it as intended.
Baud Rate Select a baud rate for the serial port connection. The baud rate on the AP must match the
baud rate on the terminal or terminal emulator to connect to the AP command-line interface
(CLI) by using a serial (console) connection.
The following baud rates are available:
•) 9600
•) 19200
•) 38400
•) 57600
•) 115200
System Name Enter a name for the AP. This name appears only on the Basic Settings page and is a
name to identify the AP to the administrator. Use up to 64 alphanumeric characters, for
example My AP.