Is there any listing or manual that informs about configuration changes that force a restart of the AP?
It is frustrating not to be able to make hardly any configurations from cnMaestro without this involving restarting the AP units with the consequent interruption of service for minutes, maybe there is a quick list of things to avoid in these cases.
@Edues rebooting of APs or restarting of radios? if APs are rebooting, please confirm that the changes you are pushing is not disconnecting the AP from cnMaestro. If that happens, the APs will reboot to the previous good configuration to reconnect with cnMaestro
With the Cámbium APs I am discovering that most of the time, any change in the configuration, means a complete restart of the AP.
I must be bad used to it, as over years of using Xirrus APs, I have become accustomed to making adjustments on the fly without the risk of restarting the APs, most of the time only the interface involved is restarted.
I’m not complaining, I just want to get a better understanding of how these APs behave.
YES - pretty much every brand we used prior to Cambium would make many changes without restarting.
That being said, it is really really good to see that channel changes are now often possible to have the SMs ‘follow me’ to the new channel without interruption. That is a welcome fix, and I think that should be extended to as many other settings and services as possible.
The Wi-Fi Access Points will reboot only when we change the Software Defined Radio configurations, like:
• Radio band mode from 5 GHz to 6 GHz and vice versa.
• Splitting the radio from 8x8 into 4x4 on XV3 (Radio 2) and XE5-8 APs (Radio 4)