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AP550's are running in AF power mode.

adam_clegg — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 22:18:24 GMT

AP550's are running in AF power mode.

Re: AP550's are running in AF power mode.

adam_clegg — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 22:18:35 GMT

TX/RX chains are 2x2. We have HP/Aruba 5406 and 2930's. I've tried forcing the AP to AT mode and I've tried to manually set the POE values on the switch and making the ports critical.

Any help to get them on AT power would be greatly appreciated.

Re: AP550's are running in AF power mode.

adam_clegg — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 23:13:14 GMT

I tried searching but this was the only issue with AT and AF I could find and the issue was never resolved or posted. https://thehivecommunity.aerohive.com/s/feed/0D50c00006BNg9xCAD

Re: AP550's are running in AF power mode.

AnonymousM — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 22:33:20 GMT

Adam,

Can you paste in a show lldp neighbor output from one of the AP550s from the CLI? It should show you the requested POE (PD requested power: xx as well as the PSE allocated power: xx). Curious what the AP is asking for. Also, what HiveOS are the running?

Re: AP550's are running in AF power mode.

adam_clegg — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 23:29:28 GMT

Is show lldp neighbor the entire command? If it is its not showing any tables. AP550's are running 8.4r10 on HM Cloud.

Re: AP550's are running in AF power mode.

AnonymousM — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 23:31:58 GMT

It doesn't look like you have LLDP enabled. Just put in the command "lldp" and hit enter. Wait ~60 seconds (LLDP exchanges info every 30 seconds) and do the show lldp neighbor command again.

Re: AP550's are running in AF power mode.

adam_clegg — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 00:16:59 GMT

AP550 is plugged into port A2.

Re: AP550's are running in AF power mode.

AnonymousM — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 00:25:02 GMT

Interesting. The switch shows it as a class 4 device (.3at POE). But the AP shows it as .3af.

Can you hard set the max allowable power on the ethernet port to 30W? Thats the max for .3at POE - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_over_Ethernet

Also if you got lldp enabled on the AP a show lldp nei should also confirm what we're seeing.

Re: AP550's are running in AF power mode.

adam_clegg — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 02:31:53 GMT

I set the max to 30W and left LLDP on. I also tried LLDP off and no matter what the AP550 was still on AF power.

Re: AP550's are running in AF power mode.

AnonymousM — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 03:08:17 GMT

You could also try to manually set the tx/rx chains in the CLI of the AP. I do not have an AP550 at my disposal today to compare results against.

CLI Commands:

radio profile <wifi1 radio profile name> transmit-chain <1-4>

radio profile <wifi1 radio profile name> receive-chain <1-4>

I have an AP250 though connected to an SR2208 switch and my show system power status shows AT.

What happens if you run the following command: system-power-mode 802.3at

Re: AP550's are running in AF power mode.

adam_clegg — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 03:34:34 GMT

I found something interesting when doing a show radio profile. Do 1 and 2 look correct to you?

Re: AP550's are running in AF power mode.

AnonymousM — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 03:37:17 GMT

Those are the default radio profiles that are applied to hardware out of the box. I show those on my AP250 even though I have different radio profiles attached to the respective interfaces.

Can you show the output of a "show interface wifi1" command?

Re: AP550's are running in AF power mode.

adam_clegg — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 03:40:54 GMT

Interesting that I have LLDP on at the switch but the AP is showing LLDP N/A.

Re: AP550's are running in AF power mode.

AnonymousM — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 03:42:45 GMT

Can you also provide the output of the following command: "show run | i SCPS_NAC_wifi1"

The LLDP = N/A is saying that LLDP is not setup on that interface (wifi1). If you were doing a mesh network where another AP was bridging to your LAN off of this interface, you would see that neighbor in the LLDP table.

Re: AP550's are running in AF power mode.

adam_clegg — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 03:45:43 GMT

I understand what you said about LLDP and the wifi1 interface.

Re: AP550's are running in AF power mode.

AnonymousM — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 03:49:39 GMT

There's nothing in there that would denote the AP to use 2 Tx/Tx chains. What was the result of trying to forcefully set those?

system-power-mode 802.3at

radio profile SCPS_NAC_wifi1 transmit-chain 4

radio profile SCPS_NAC_wifi1 receive-chain 4

Re: AP550's are running in AF power mode.

adam_clegg — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 03:54:20 GMT

Its says they are set at 4 and 4 but still says its using AF power.

Re: AP550's are running in AF power mode.

AnonymousM — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 03:59:21 GMT

The show system power status shows you at .3af, but the show system power mode shows you at .3at...

Strange indeed...

Let me see what one looks like tomorrow when I have one available for comparison. I do not have any Aruba switches to test against. Just Aerohive and some Ruckus ICX switches.

Re: AP550's are running in AF power mode.

adam_clegg — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 04:00:57 GMT

I set the mode to .3at manually. If I set it to auto it will go back to AF.

Re: AP550's are running in AF power mode.

adam_clegg — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 04:26:03 GMT

So I found and plugged the AP550 into a POE injector and the status goes to AT power. So it has to be something with the HP/Aruba switches.