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Black Box

QuickStart Guide

for the SmartPath AP (LWN602HA)

This QuickStart guide explains how to set up a SmartPath access point (AP) (LWN602HA) so it can

make a network connection to a switch, and how to mount it on a ceiling or wall.

Switch

DHCP

Server

Firewall

Internet

Some other network devices. (They

might all be incorporated in the same

device, such as a router or rewall.)

Ethernet

Cable

If the switch provides

PoE (Power over

Ethernet), cabling the

SmartPath AP to the

switch will cause the

SmartPath AP to power

on in a few seconds.

If the switch does not

provide PoE, use the

AC/DC power adaptor

(optional) to connect

the SmartPath to a

100-240 AC power

source.

Eth0

Connecting to SmartPath EMS

Using the Virtual Access Console

The ve status LEDs on the top of the SmartPath AP (LWN602HA) indicate various states

of activity through their color (dark, green, amber, and red) and illumination patterns

(steady glow or pulsing). The meanings of the various color and illumination patterns

for each LED are explained below:

Power

• Dark: No power

• Steady green: Powered on and the rmware is running normally

• Pulsing green: Firmware is booting up

• Steady amber: Firmware is being updated

• Pulsing amber: Alarm indicating a rmware issue has occurred

• Steady red: Alarm indicating a hardware issue has occurred

ETH0 and ETH1

• Dark: Ethernet link is down or disabled

• Steady green: 1000-Mbps Ethernet link is up but inactive

• Pulsing green: 1000-Mbps Ethernet link is up and active

• Steady amber: 10-/100-Mbps Ethernet link is up but inactive

• Pulsing amber: 10-/100-Mbps Ethernet link is up and active

WIFI0 and WIFI1

• Dark: Wireless interface is disabled

• Steady green: Wireless interface is in access mode but inactive

• Pulsing green: Wireless interface is in access mode and active

• Steady amber: Wireless interface is in backhaul mode but inactive

• Pulsing amber: Wireless interface is in backhaul mode and is connected with other

cluster members

• Alternating green and amber: Wireless interface is in backhaul mode and is

searching for other cluster members

Using your wireless client,

scan for wireless networks.

If you are within range, an

SSID such as “BB-123456”

appears.

Select it, and when

prompted to enter a network

key, type blackbox and then

click Connect.

Beacons

Wireless

Client

Connect a standard

Ethernet cable with

RJ-45 connectors from

ETH0 on the SmartPath

(LWN602HA) to a switch.

Attach the shorter antennas

to the 5-GHz connectors...

and the longer ones to

the 2.4-GHz connectors

on the Eth0 port side.

Check the IP address of

the default gateway that

the DHCP server on the

SmartPath AP assigned to

your client. Then

make an SSH or a

Telnet connection to the

SmartPath AP at that IP

address. When prompted to

enter your credentials, enter

the default Black Box login name

(admin) and password (blackbox).

C:\>ipcong

Windows IP Conguration

Ethernet adapter Wireless

Network Connection:

Connection-specic DNS Sufx . :

IP Address. . . . . . : 1.1.1.2

Subnet Mask . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

Default Gateway . . . : 1.1.1.1

C:\>telnet 1.1.1.1

After logging in to the virtual access console, you can view the status of various

functions and make conguration changes. Here are some commonly used commands.

Use these commands: To do the following:

show interface

Check the status of both wired and

wireless interfaces

show interface mgt0

See the network settings (IP address,

netmask, default gateway) and VLAN ID

of the mgt0 interface

no interface mgt0 dhcp client

Disable the DHCP client

interface mgt0 ip <ip_addr>

Set the IP address and netmask of the

mgt0 interface

interface mgt0 native-vlan <id>

Set the native (untagged) VLAN that the

switch infrastructure in the surrounding

wired and wireless network uses

show capwap client

See CAPWAP client settings and status

capwap client server name

Set the IP address or domain name of

the CAPWAP server (SmartPath EMS

Appliance)

capwap client vhm-name <string>

Set the VHM (virtual SmartPath EMS

Appliance) to which the client belongs

show cluster

See the cluster name

show cluster <string> neighbor

Check for any nearby cluster members

clusters <string> ...

Create a cluster and set its parameters

show ssid

See a list of all SSID names

ssid <string> ...

Congure an SSID

interface { wi0 | wi1 } ssid

Bind an SSID to a wireless interface in

access mode

To see a list of commands, and their accompanying CLI Help, type a question mark ( ? ).

For example, to see all the show commands, enter show ?

If you want to nd a command that uses a particular character or string of characters,

you can do a search using the following command: show cmds | include

<string>, where <string> is the word or string of characters you want to nd.

Device- and platform-specic CLI reference guides are available on-line. (To learn how

to access them, see "Where to go for more information" elsewhere in this document.)

As explained in the previous section, after connecting a SmartPath AP to the network and

powering it on, it acts as a DHCP client and tries to get its network settings automatically from

a DHCP server in VLAN 1. However, if there is no DHCP server in that VLAN, if the native VLAN

for the network segment is not 1, or if you just want to assign it a static IP address, then you

need to access the Command Line Interface (CLI) and dene the network settings yourself.

One approach is to use a console cable, which is available from Black Box as an accessory.

Another is to use the virtual access console. This is a way of accessing the CLI on a SmartPath

wirelessly through a special SSID that the SmartPath, by default, automatically activates for

administrative access when it has no conguration and cannot reach its default gateway.

The default virtual access console SSID name is “<SmartPath-hostname>”. The default host

name of a SmartPath consists of "BB-" plus the last six digits of its MAC address; for example,

BB-123456. In this case, the name of the default virtual access console SSID would be “BB-

123456.” By default, this SSID uses blackbox as the PSK (preshared key) for authenticating user

access. To access the virtual access console, do the following:

Cable the SmartPath AP to an Ethernet network—a SmartPath AP connected directly to the

network like this is called a portal—or place it within radio range of a portal so that it forms

a wireless link through the portal to the wired network. This kind of SmartPath AP is called

a mesh point. By default, a SmartPath AP acts as a DHCP client and gets its network settings

automatically from a DHCP server. (You can also congure the SmartPath AP with static

network settings through the CLI. See the next section, “Using the Virtual Access Console,”

for information about making a wireless—or “virtual”—console connection to the CLI on the

SmartPath AP.)

A mesh point initially forms a cluster with its portal using the default cluster cluster0.

Through this link, the mesh point can reach the network and get its network settings

through a DHCP server. Then it can form a CAPWAP connection with the SmartPath EMS. (To

add a mesh point after changing the cluster name, rst connect it to the wired network.

Next, push a conguration with the new cluster name to it from the SmartPath EMS. Finally,

deploy it as a mesh point.

CAPWAP (Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points) is a protocol that access points

use to contact a management device and communicate with it. After getting its network

settings through DHCP, the SmartPath AP then acts as a CAPWAP client and tries to reach

a CAPWAP server, which in this case is a SmartPath EMS Appliance. If the SmartPath AP

is congured with the SmartPath EMS IP address or domain name or if it receives DHCP

attributes specifying either a SmartPath EMS IP address or domain name, it uses those

settings to contact it.

If the SmartPath AP is not congured with SmartPath EMS settings and does not receive them

through DHCP, it then checks if it can do a DNS lookup to resolve “SmartPathEMS.<local_

domain>” to an IP address (“<local_domain>” is the domain that the DHCP server assigned to

the SmartPath AP).

Finally, if none of the previous efforts enables the SmartPath AP to contact the SmartPath

EMS, the SmartPath AP broadcasts CAPWAP Discovery messages on its subnet. If the

SmartPath EMS is in the same broadcast domain, it responds, and the two devices negotiate

a secure CAPWAP connection.

If SmartPath EMS is in the same subnet as the SmartPath AP, the SmartPath AP nds and

connects to it automatically. However, if SmartPath EMS is in a different subnet from the

SmartPath AP, you must congure settings on the SmartPath AP, the DHCP server, or DNS

server so that one of the other SmartPath EMS discovery methods can succeed:

(1) Manually congure the SmartPath AP with the SmartPath EMS IP address or domain name.

(2) Congure a DHCP server to return the SmartPath EMS IP address or domain name in one

of the DHCP options.

(3) Congure the local authoritative DNS server with an A-record or a host record that

resolves “SmartPath EMS” to the SmartPath EMS IP address.

When the SmartPath AP has a specic IP address for the SmartPath EMS, it can then

send unicast CAPWAP Discovery Request messages to it at that address.

Different Subnets (Use of DHCP

options or DNS resolution)

When SmartPath EMS is in a different

subnet, do one of the following: (1) set the

SmartPath EMS IP address or domain name

on the SmartPath AP; or (2) congure a

DHCP server to return the SmartPath EMS

IP address or domain name; or (3) add an

A-record or a host record that resolves

“smartpath.<domain_name>” to the

SmartPath EMS IP address on a DNS server

that is authoritative for that domain.

Router

Unicast

DHCP or

DNS Server

Same Subnet (Automatic Discovery) The SmartPath AP broadcasts CAPWAP

Discovery Request messages until it

receives a response from SmartPath

EMS, which is a CAPWAP server, in the

same subnet. Then they negotiate a

secure CAPWAP connection with each

other.

Broadcast

SmartPath EMS

CAPWAP Server

SmartPath AP

CAPWAP Client

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