{"id":4547,"date":"2013-05-01T17:15:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T23:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregsowell.com\/?p=4547"},"modified":"2013-05-01T17:15:41","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T23:15:41","slug":"shutdown-and-enable-radios-on-a-cisco-wireless-lan-controller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/?p=4547","title":{"rendered":"Shutdown And Enable Radios On A Cisco Wireless LAN Controller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m about to do some work with Ubiquiti in an environment that has a decent chunk of Cisco gear controlled via WLC.  I want to kill allllll of the Cisco radios at once so I can do some spectral analysis before I do a complete transition.  I found a few commands that will help you to list the APs, then shutdown\/enable in mass.<\/p>\n<p>First SSH\/telnet into your wireless controller.<\/p>\n<p>To list the APs:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"gs-code\"><code class=\"language-plaintext\">show ap summary<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Take the list of APs and format them as so to disable B G N radios:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"gs-code\"><code class=\"language-plaintext\">802.11b disable ApName<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>The trick is to really just to make a list of all your APs in this fashion and paste them in.<\/p>\n<p>To enable the radios do this:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"gs-code\"><code class=\"language-plaintext\">802.11b enable ApName<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>To disable A N radios:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"gs-code\"><code class=\"language-plaintext\">802.11a disable ApName<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>To enable them back:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"gs-code\"><code class=\"language-plaintext\">802.11a enable ApName<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>This will allow you to enable\/disable the radios in mass, which should make your task of testing just a little bit easier. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m about to do some work with Ubiquiti in an environment that has a decent chunk of Cisco gear controlled via WLC. I\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cisco","category-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4548,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4547\/revisions\/4548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}