We are having a Robotics Tournament this weekend and have been asked to disable the Access Points in the areas where the competition is being held. Is there a way to do this without just unplugging our aps for the weekend?

[mikutt]

We are having a Robotics Tournament this weekend and have been asked to disable the Access Points in the areas where the competition is being held. Is there a way to do this without just unplugging our aps for the weekend?

[bruce_stahlin]

You could also create a template with the settings Sam has suggested and move the affected APs into those templates within the device config, and schedule the update/reboot.

[samantha_lynn]

You can schedule the change for a certain time. If you go to Monitor> Check the box next to the AP> Update Devices> Complete Configuration Update> Under the Activation Time for Aerohive Devices Running Images section, select Activate at the following time according to the system clock on the update device, and set the time you want the change to happen. Keep in mind, this pushes the changes out to the AP now, however the AP won't reboot to apply the changes until the time you set. So you'll see an update go out to the AP, but the AP won't reboot right then and the changes won't take place right then, the AP will reboot at the time you set and then the changes will be in effect.

[mikutt]

Thank You, We are using Hivemanager NG. Do you know if this is something that can be scheduled or would I need to manually make this happen?

[samantha_lynn]

Yes, but the instructions depend a bit on what HiveManager platform you are using.

HiveManager Classic (myhive.aerohive.com): You'll want to go to Monitor> Check the box next to the AP(s)> Modify> Set the Admin State to "Down"> Push out a configuration update to the APs.

HiveManager (formerly NG, cloud.aerohive.com): You'll want to go to Monitor> Click on the hostname of the AP, or check the boxes next to several APs and click on the edit icon at the top of the page that looks like a notepad and pen> Interface settings (left hand side menu)> Toggle the Radio Status to "OFF", make sure to do this on both the Wifi0 and Wifi1 tabs> Push out a configuration update to the APs.

This will keep the APs connected to your HiveManager so you can simply switch the admin state to "UP" or the Radio state to "ON" when you are ready to have the APs passing client traffic again. Is that what you were looking for?