Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

[Julian Y Koh]

Heh.




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RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

[Lee H Badman]

Agreed- would be excellent happy medium.


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Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2016 8:48 AM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

Dimming the LEDs is an excellent suggestion. I know that you can select 'dim' 
mode on autonomous code so the feature/hardware is there, but it seems like for 
whatever reason it hasn't made it into the controller code.
  -Sam

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 2:37 AM, Jeffrey D. Sessler 
<j...@scrippscollege.edu<mailto:j...@scrippscollege.edu>> wrote:
I have an enhancement request in with Cisco to provide the option to dim the 
LED’s vs turn them off. If I could run them at 10-20% of brightness, I think 
people would be ok with them staying on.

Jeff

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Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

First-world problems… Curious if others have gone down this road in Residence 
Halls. We’re not really being asked to, but are considering wholesale disabling 
LEDs on our Cisco APs in the dorms as a quality of life step. Has this caused 
anyone any pain when it comes to not being able to see the colors on the AP as 
status indication? Have you actually had requests to disable the LEDs? Overall 
experience with accommodating or denying the request?

Thanks-

Lee Badman


Lee Badman | Network Architect (CWDP, CWNA, CWSP, Mobility+)
Information Technology Services
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Syracuse, New York 13244
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Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

[Samuel Clements]

Dimming the LEDs is an excellent suggestion. I know that you can select
'dim' mode on autonomous code so the feature/hardware is there, but it
seems like for whatever reason it hasn't made it into the controller code.
  -Sam

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 2:37 AM, Jeffrey D. Sessler <j...@scrippscollege.edu>
wrote:

> I have an enhancement request in with Cisco to provide the option to dim
> the LED’s vs turn them off. If I could run them at 10-20% of brightness, I
> think people would be ok with them staying on.
>
>
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
> *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:
> WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] *On Behalf Of *Lee H Badman
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 06, 2016 6:57 AM
> *To:* WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
> *Subject:* [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs
>
>
>
> First-world problems… Curious if others have gone down this road in
> Residence Halls. We’re not really being asked to, but are considering
> wholesale disabling LEDs on our Cisco APs in the dorms as a quality of life
> step. Has this caused anyone any pain when it comes to not being able to
> see the colors on the AP as status indication? Have you actually had
> requests to disable the LEDs? Overall experience with accommodating or
> denying the request?
>
>
>
> Thanks-
>
>
>
> Lee Badman
>
>
>
>
>
> *Lee Badman* | Network Architect (CWDP, CWNA, CWSP, Mobility+)
>
> Information Technology Services
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> 120 Smith Drive
> Syracuse, New York 13244
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Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

[Tristan Gulyas]

Hi,

We do this on our 702Ws; 3xxx series are corridor mounted and don't affect 
sleeping students.

We also disable lights in our performing arts hall, where we have graduations 
and music performances.

We have had some issues troubleshooting before, but the AP lights come on after 
a power cycle prior to loading the config that tells the AP to switch off.

Cheers,
Tristan
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Senior Network Engineer

Infrastructure Services, eSolutions
Monash University
738 Blackburn Road
Clayton 3168
Australia

E: tristan.gul...@monash.edu
monash.edu 
> On 6 Sep 2016, at 11:57 PM, Lee H Badman  wrote:
> 
> First-world problems… Curious if others have gone down this road in Residence 
> Halls. We’re not really being asked to, but are considering wholesale 
> disabling LEDs on our Cisco APs in the dorms as a quality of life step. Has 
> this caused anyone any pain when it comes to not being able to see the colors 
> on the AP as status indication? Have you actually had requests to disable the 
> LEDs? Overall experience with accommodating or denying the request?
>  
> Thanks-
>  
> Lee Badman
>  
>  
> Lee Badman | Network Architect (CWDP, CWNA, CWSP, Mobility+)
> Information Technology Services
> 206 Machinery Hall
> 120 Smith Drive
> Syracuse, New York 13244
> t 315.443.3003   f 315.443.4325   e lhbad...@syr.edu 
>  w its.syr.edu 
> SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
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Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

[Adam Forsyth]

We turn them off where we have the traditional ceiling mounted AP's located
in student rooms.  I wish they had an option to leave the power LED on, but
not have other LED's blink for network traffic.  My opinion is that the
flashing lights would be annoying to me on the ceiling of a room I was
living in, but the solid power light would be no different than a little
light coming in through the window or under the door.  That would avoid the
occasional trouble ticket where someone happens to notice that AP's in
classrooms have flashing lights and the one in their room doesn't,
therefore the one in their room must be broken.

This summer we installed Aruba AP-205H's in student rooms in 2 residence
halls.  The lights on those are small enough and dim enough that I decided
not to mess with them and have left them on.  So far I've not gotten any
complaints, so either I'm right that they're small enough not to be
annoying, or students are self solving the problem with tape or post-it
notes, etc.

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 8:57 AM, Lee H Badman  wrote:

> First-world problems… Curious if others have gone down this road in
> Residence Halls. We’re not really being asked to, but are considering
> wholesale disabling LEDs on our Cisco APs in the dorms as a quality of life
> step. Has this caused anyone any pain when it comes to not being able to
> see the colors on the AP as status indication? Have you actually had
> requests to disable the LEDs? Overall experience with accommodating or
> denying the request?
>
> Thanks-
>
> Lee Badman
>
>
> *Lee Badman* | Network Architect (CWDP, CWNA, CWSP, Mobility+)
> Information Technology Services
> 206 Machinery Hall
> 120 Smith Drive
> Syracuse, New York 13244
> *t* 315.443.3003  * f* 315.443.4325   *e* *lhbad...@syr.edu*
>  *w* its.syr.edu
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> *SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY *syr.edu
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RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

[Thomas Carter]

Well you are one Bad-man *ba-dum-tish*

Thomas Carter
Network & Operations Manager
Austin College

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[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee H Badman
Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2016 10:32 AM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

I use my x-ray vision to see what the innards are doing, and if I don’t like 
what I’m seeing I melt it with my heat vision. Then I carve a new one, on the 
spot- out of driftwood.  I’m pretty much the whole package.




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Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

Here’s an AWESOME idea (if I do say so myself). Vendors could put an infrared 
status light in their APs. Of course not visible to the naked eye BUT, if you 
get an older phone etc, it will see IR lights (many newer phones have IR 
filters). Point your phone camera to the IR source and you’ll see the blinking 
lights. Mic drop.

GT

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Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

We disable all the LEDs in residence halls on our Cisco APs.  It hasnet caused 
us much of a problem troubleshooting, you have the ability flash or turn on 
individual lights if needed in case you have to identify an AP.

-Jimmy
University of Michigan

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Julian Y Koh 
<kohs...@northwestern.edu<mailto:kohs...@northwestern.edu>> wrote:
On Tue Sep 06 2016 08:57:08 CDT, Lee H Badman 
<lhbad...@syr.edu<mailto:lhbad...@syr.edu>> wrote:
>
> First-world problems… Curious if others have gone down this road in Residence 
> Halls. We’re not really being asked to, but are considering wholesale 
> disabling LEDs on our Cisco APs in the dorms as a quality of life step. Has 
> this caused anyone any pain when it comes to not being able to see the colors 
> on the AP as status indication? Have you actually had requests to disable the 
> LEDs? Overall experience with accommodating or denying the request?
>

I can't remember the exact sequence of how all the conversations went, but when 
we did a redesign to start moving the APs into the residence hall rooms, we 
turned off the lights on those units.  I think we got a couple of reports where 
residents were wondering if the APs were working, but overall not a big deal.


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Associate Director, Telecommunications and Network Services
Northwestern Information Technology

2001 Sheridan Road #G-166
Evanston, IL 60208
+1-847-467-5780
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Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

[Hunter Fuller]

GT - I ran into this problem because I used my phone to troubleshoot multi
mode optical links, but then I got a phone with an IR filter on the rear
camera. I discovered that the front camera still does not have the IR
filter, at least on an iPhone 6S. Hope that helps.

On Tuesday, September 6, 2016, GT Hill <g...@gthill.com> wrote:

> Here’s an AWESOME idea (if I do say so myself). Vendors could put an
> infrared status light in their APs. Of course not visible to the naked eye
> BUT, if you get an older phone etc, it will see IR lights (many newer
> phones have IR filters). Point your phone camera to the IR source and
> you’ll see the blinking lights. Mic drop.
>
> GT
>
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> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU');>>
> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs
>
> We disable all the LEDs in residence halls on our Cisco APs.  It hasnet
> caused us much of a problem troubleshooting, you have the ability flash or
> turn on individual lights if needed in case you have to identify an AP.
>
> -Jimmy
> University of Michigan
>
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Julian Y Koh <kohs...@northwestern.edu
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kohs...@northwestern.edu');>> wrote:
>
>> On Tue Sep 06 2016 08:57:08 CDT, Lee H Badman <lhbad...@syr.edu
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','lhbad...@syr.edu');>> wrote:
>> >
>> > First-world problems… Curious if others have gone down this road in
>> Residence Halls. We’re not really being asked to, but are considering
>> wholesale disabling LEDs on our Cisco APs in the dorms as a quality of life
>> step. Has this caused anyone any pain when it comes to not being able to
>> see the colors on the AP as status indication? Have you actually had
>> requests to disable the LEDs? Overall experience with accommodating or
>> denying the request?
>> >
>>
>> I can't remember the exact sequence of how all the conversations went,
>> but when we did a redesign to start moving the APs into the residence hall
>> rooms, we turned off the lights on those units.  I think we got a couple of
>> reports where residents were wondering if the APs were working, but overall
>> not a big deal.
>>
>>
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>> Julian Y. Koh
>> Associate Director, Telecommunications and Network Services
>> Northwestern Information Technology
>>
>> 2001 Sheridan Road #G-166
>> Evanston, IL 60208
>> +1-847-467-5780
>> Northwestern IT Web Site: <http://www.it.northwestern.edu/>
>> PGP Public Key:<http://bt.ittns.northwestern.edu/julian/pgppubkey.html>
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RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

[Norton, Thomas (Network Services)]

https://www.arubatitans.com/en/


T.J. Norton
Wireless Network Architect - Team Lead
Network Operations - Wireless

(434) 592-6552

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Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2016 12:29 PM
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Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

That sounds like Aruba new marketing plan :P

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Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

I hope you get paid extra for that level of service, Lee.

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Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

I use my x-ray vision to see what the innards are doing, and if I don’t like 
what I’m seeing I melt it with my heat vision. Then I carve a new one, on the 
spot- out of driftwood.  I’m pretty much the whole package.

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RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

[Norton, Thomas (Network Services)]

That sounds like Aruba new marketing plan :P

T.J. Norton
Wireless Network Architect - Team Lead
Network Operations - Wireless

(434) 592-6552

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Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2016 12:14 PM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

I hope you get paid extra for that level of service, Lee.

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WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

I use my x-ray vision to see what the innards are doing, and if I don’t like 
what I’m seeing I melt it with my heat vision. Then I carve a new one, on the 
spot- out of driftwood.  I’m pretty much the whole package.

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RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

[Danny Eaton]

I hope you get paid extra for that level of service, Lee.

 

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Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

 

I use my x-ray vision to see what the innards are doing, and if I don’t like 
what I’m seeing I melt it with my heat vision. Then I carve a new one, on the 
spot- out of driftwood.  I’m pretty much the whole package.


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RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

[Peter P Morrissey]

In case there are any doubts about turning them off, lots of research on this 
kind of thing lately:

http://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/blue-light-has-a-dark-side

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/q-a-why-is-blue-light-before-bedtime-bad-for-sleep/

Pete M.


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To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

We disable all the LEDs in residence halls on our Cisco APs.  It hasnet caused 
us much of a problem troubleshooting, you have the ability flash or turn on 
individual lights if needed in case you have to identify an AP.

-Jimmy
University of Michigan

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Julian Y Koh 
<kohs...@northwestern.edu<mailto:kohs...@northwestern.edu>> wrote:
On Tue Sep 06 2016 08:57:08 CDT, Lee H Badman 
<lhbad...@syr.edu<mailto:lhbad...@syr.edu>> wrote:
>
> First-world problems… Curious if others have gone down this road in Residence 
> Halls. We’re not really being asked to, but are considering wholesale 
> disabling LEDs on our Cisco APs in the dorms as a quality of life step. Has 
> this caused anyone any pain when it comes to not being able to see the colors 
> on the AP as status indication? Have you actually had requests to disable the 
> LEDs? Overall experience with accommodating or denying the request?
>

I can't remember the exact sequence of how all the conversations went, but when 
we did a redesign to start moving the APs into the residence hall rooms, we 
turned off the lights on those units.  I think we got a couple of reports where 
residents were wondering if the APs were working, but overall not a big deal.


--
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Associate Director, Telecommunications and Network Services
Northwestern Information Technology

2001 Sheridan Road #G-166
Evanston, IL 60208
+1-847-467-5780
Northwestern IT Web Site: <http://www.it.northwestern.edu/>
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RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

[Lee H Badman]

You might have the silo, I’m pure payload!


From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of GT Hill
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2016 11:53 AM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

I feel like you are mocking me Mr. Badman. Need I remind you that I have a 
Nuclear Missile Silo? I thought I had a good idea. Now I’m in the corner crying.

Miss you man. :-)

GT

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Date: Tuesday, September 6, 2016 at 10:32 AM
To: 
<WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>>
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

I use my x-ray vision to see what the innards are doing, and if I don’t like 
what I’m seeing I melt it with my heat vision. Then I carve a new one, on the 
spot- out of driftwood.  I’m pretty much the whole package.




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Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2016 11:26 AM
To: 
WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

Here’s an AWESOME idea (if I do say so myself). Vendors could put an infrared 
status light in their APs. Of course not visible to the naked eye BUT, if you 
get an older phone etc, it will see IR lights (many newer phones have IR 
filters). Point your phone camera to the IR source and you’ll see the blinking 
lights. Mic drop.

GT

From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
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Date: Tuesday, September 6, 2016 at 10:13 AM
To: 
<WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>>
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

We disable all the LEDs in residence halls on our Cisco APs.  It hasnet caused 
us much of a problem troubleshooting, you have the ability flash or turn on 
individual lights if needed in case you have to identify an AP.

-Jimmy
University of Michigan

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Julian Y Koh 
<kohs...@northwestern.edu<mailto:kohs...@northwestern.edu>> wrote:
On Tue Sep 06 2016 08:57:08 CDT, Lee H Badman 
<lhbad...@syr.edu<mailto:lhbad...@syr.edu>> wrote:
>
> First-world problems… Curious if others have gone down this road in Residence 
> Halls. We’re not really being asked to, but are considering wholesale 
> disabling LEDs on our Cisco APs in the dorms as a quality of life step. Has 
> this caused anyone any pain when it comes to not being able to see the colors 
> on the AP as status indication? Have you actually had requests to disable the 
> LEDs? Overall experience with accommodating or denying the request?
>

I can't remember the exact sequence of how all the conversations went, but when 
we did a redesign to start moving the APs into the residence hall rooms, we 
turned off the lights on those units.  I think we got a couple of reports where 
residents were wondering if the APs were working, but overall not a big deal.


--
Julian Y. Koh
Associate Director, Telecommunications and Network Services
Northwestern Information Technology

2001 Sheridan Road #G-166
Evanston, IL 60208
+1-847-467-5780
Northwestern IT Web Site: <http://www.it.northwestern.edu/>
PGP Public Key:<http://bt.ittns.northwestern.edu/julian/pgppubkey.html>








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Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

[GT Hill]

I feel like you are mocking me Mr. Badman. Need I remind you that I have a 
Nuclear Missile Silo? I thought I had a good idea. Now I’m in the corner 
crying. 

Miss you man. :-) 

GT

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<lhbad...@syr.edu>
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<WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>
Date:  Tuesday, September 6, 2016 at 10:32 AM
To:  <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>
Subject:  Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

I use my x-ray vision to see what the innards are doing, and if I don’t like 
what I’m seeing I melt it with my heat vision. Then I carve a new one, on the 
spot- out of driftwood.  I’m pretty much the whole package.

 

 

 

 

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[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of GT Hill
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2016 11:26 AM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

 

Here’s an AWESOME idea (if I do say so myself). Vendors could put an infrared 
status light in their APs. Of course not visible to the naked eye BUT, if you 
get an older phone etc, it will see IR lights (many newer phones have IR 
filters). Point your phone camera to the IR source and you’ll see the blinking 
lights. Mic drop. 

 

GT

 

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<jarh...@umich.edu>
Reply-To: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
<WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>
Date: Tuesday, September 6, 2016 at 10:13 AM
To: <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

 

We disable all the LEDs in residence halls on our Cisco APs.  It hasnet caused 
us much of a problem troubleshooting, you have the ability flash or turn on 
individual lights if needed in case you have to identify an AP.

 

-Jimmy

University of Michigan

 

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Julian Y Koh <kohs...@northwestern.edu> wrote:

On Tue Sep 06 2016 08:57:08 CDT, Lee H Badman <lhbad...@syr.edu> wrote:
>
> First-world problems… Curious if others have gone down this road in Residence 
> Halls. We’re not really being asked to, but are considering wholesale 
> disabling LEDs on our Cisco APs in the dorms as a quality of life step. Has 
> this caused anyone any pain when it comes to not being able to see the colors 
> on the AP as status indication? Have you actually had requests to disable the 
> LEDs? Overall experience with accommodating or denying the request?
>

I can't remember the exact sequence of how all the conversations went, but when 
we did a redesign to start moving the APs into the residence hall rooms, we 
turned off the lights on those units.  I think we got a couple of reports where 
residents were wondering if the APs were working, but overall not a big deal.


--
Julian Y. Koh
Associate Director, Telecommunications and Network Services
Northwestern Information Technology

2001 Sheridan Road #G-166
Evanston, IL 60208
+1-847-467-5780
Northwestern IT Web Site: <http://www.it.northwestern.edu/>
PGP Public Key:<http://bt.ittns.northwestern.edu/julian/pgppubkey.html>








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RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

[Lee H Badman]

I use my x-ray vision to see what the innards are doing, and if I don’t like 
what I’m seeing I melt it with my heat vision. Then I carve a new one, on the 
spot- out of driftwood.  I’m pretty much the whole package.




From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of GT Hill
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2016 11:26 AM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

Here’s an AWESOME idea (if I do say so myself). Vendors could put an infrared 
status light in their APs. Of course not visible to the naked eye BUT, if you 
get an older phone etc, it will see IR lights (many newer phones have IR 
filters). Point your phone camera to the IR source and you’ll see the blinking 
lights. Mic drop.

GT

From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
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on behalf of James Helzerman <jarh...@umich.edu<mailto:jarh...@umich.edu>>
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Date: Tuesday, September 6, 2016 at 10:13 AM
To: 
<WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>>
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

We disable all the LEDs in residence halls on our Cisco APs.  It hasnet caused 
us much of a problem troubleshooting, you have the ability flash or turn on 
individual lights if needed in case you have to identify an AP.

-Jimmy
University of Michigan

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Julian Y Koh 
<kohs...@northwestern.edu<mailto:kohs...@northwestern.edu>> wrote:
On Tue Sep 06 2016 08:57:08 CDT, Lee H Badman 
<lhbad...@syr.edu<mailto:lhbad...@syr.edu>> wrote:
>
> First-world problems… Curious if others have gone down this road in Residence 
> Halls. We’re not really being asked to, but are considering wholesale 
> disabling LEDs on our Cisco APs in the dorms as a quality of life step. Has 
> this caused anyone any pain when it comes to not being able to see the colors 
> on the AP as status indication? Have you actually had requests to disable the 
> LEDs? Overall experience with accommodating or denying the request?
>

I can't remember the exact sequence of how all the conversations went, but when 
we did a redesign to start moving the APs into the residence hall rooms, we 
turned off the lights on those units.  I think we got a couple of reports where 
residents were wondering if the APs were working, but overall not a big deal.


--
Julian Y. Koh
Associate Director, Telecommunications and Network Services
Northwestern Information Technology

2001 Sheridan Road #G-166
Evanston, IL 60208
+1-847-467-5780
Northwestern IT Web Site: <http://www.it.northwestern.edu/>
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Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

[GT Hill]

Here’s an AWESOME idea (if I do say so myself). Vendors could put an infrared 
status light in their APs. Of course not visible to the naked eye BUT, if you 
get an older phone etc, it will see IR lights (many newer phones have IR 
filters). Point your phone camera to the IR source and you’ll see the blinking 
lights. Mic drop. 

GT

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<jarh...@umich.edu>
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<WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>
Date:  Tuesday, September 6, 2016 at 10:13 AM
To:  <WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>
Subject:  Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

We disable all the LEDs in residence halls on our Cisco APs.  It hasnet caused 
us much of a problem troubleshooting, you have the ability flash or turn on 
individual lights if needed in case you have to identify an AP.

-Jimmy
University of Michigan

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Julian Y Koh <kohs...@northwestern.edu> wrote:
On Tue Sep 06 2016 08:57:08 CDT, Lee H Badman <lhbad...@syr.edu> wrote:
>
> First-world problems… Curious if others have gone down this road in Residence 
> Halls. We’re not really being asked to, but are considering wholesale 
> disabling LEDs on our Cisco APs in the dorms as a quality of life step. Has 
> this caused anyone any pain when it comes to not being able to see the colors 
> on the AP as status indication? Have you actually had requests to disable the 
> LEDs? Overall experience with accommodating or denying the request?
>

I can't remember the exact sequence of how all the conversations went, but when 
we did a redesign to start moving the APs into the residence hall rooms, we 
turned off the lights on those units.  I think we got a couple of reports where 
residents were wondering if the APs were working, but overall not a big deal.


--
Julian Y. Koh
Associate Director, Telecommunications and Network Services
Northwestern Information Technology

2001 Sheridan Road #G-166
Evanston, IL 60208
+1-847-467-5780
Northwestern IT Web Site: <http://www.it.northwestern.edu/>
PGP Public Key:<http://bt.ittns.northwestern.edu/julian/pgppubkey.html>








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Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

[James Helzerman]

We disable all the LEDs in residence halls on our Cisco APs.  It hasnet
caused us much of a problem troubleshooting, you have the ability flash or
turn on individual lights if needed in case you have to identify an AP.

-Jimmy
University of Michigan

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Julian Y Koh 
wrote:

> On Tue Sep 06 2016 08:57:08 CDT, Lee H Badman  wrote:
> >
> > First-world problems… Curious if others have gone down this road in
> Residence Halls. We’re not really being asked to, but are considering
> wholesale disabling LEDs on our Cisco APs in the dorms as a quality of life
> step. Has this caused anyone any pain when it comes to not being able to
> see the colors on the AP as status indication? Have you actually had
> requests to disable the LEDs? Overall experience with accommodating or
> denying the request?
> >
>
> I can't remember the exact sequence of how all the conversations went, but
> when we did a redesign to start moving the APs into the residence hall
> rooms, we turned off the lights on those units.  I think we got a couple of
> reports where residents were wondering if the APs were working, but overall
> not a big deal.
>
>
> --
> Julian Y. Koh
> Associate Director, Telecommunications and Network Services
> Northwestern Information Technology
>
> 2001 Sheridan Road #G-166
> Evanston, IL 60208
> +1-847-467-5780
> Northwestern IT Web Site: 
> PGP Public Key:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

[Dexter Caldwell]

We disable them in the rooms.  The students appreciate not having that  beacon 
in their eyes.  The technicians when needed for troubleshooting can re-enable 
them temporarily. I suspect that perception of led light= proper operation will 
change over time if you disable them as the expectation is shifted by 
experience or attrition.


Dexter Caldwell
Dir. Systems & Networks
Information Technology Services
Furman University
3300 Poinsett Hwy
Greenville, SC 29613
email: dexter.caldw...@furman.edu<mailto:dexter.caldw...@furman.edu>
office: 864-294-3566
facsimile: 864-294.3001



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[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Danny Eaton
Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2016 10:35 AM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

Lee,

I've disabled them when asked, because in spots where I've 
disabled them "wholesale", I invariably get a ticket (or more) that the AP is 
offline, and wireless sucks, because there's no lights on the AP.  I enable the 
LED, and magically the wireless performance and coverage is perfect.

From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
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Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2016 8:57 AM
To: 
WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>
Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

First-world problems... Curious if others have gone down this road in Residence 
Halls. We're not really being asked to, but are considering wholesale disabling 
LEDs on our Cisco APs in the dorms as a quality of life step. Has this caused 
anyone any pain when it comes to not being able to see the colors on the AP as 
status indication? Have you actually had requests to disable the LEDs? Overall 
experience with accommodating or denying the request?

Thanks-

Lee Badman


Lee Badman | Network Architect (CWDP, CWNA, CWSP, Mobility+)
Information Technology Services
206 Machinery Hall
120 Smith Drive
Syracuse, New York 13244
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its.syr.edu
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syr.edu



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RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

[Danny Eaton]

Lee,

 

I've disabled them when asked, because in spots where I've
disabled them "wholesale", I invariably get a ticket (or more) that the AP
is offline, and wireless sucks, because there's no lights on the AP.  I
enable the LED, and magically the wireless performance and coverage is
perfect.  

 

From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv
[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee H Badman
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2016 8:57 AM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

 

First-world problems. Curious if others have gone down this road in
Residence Halls. We're not really being asked to, but are considering
wholesale disabling LEDs on our Cisco APs in the dorms as a quality of life
step. Has this caused anyone any pain when it comes to not being able to see
the colors on the AP as status indication? Have you actually had requests to
disable the LEDs? Overall experience with accommodating or denying the
request?

 

Thanks-

 

Lee Badman

 

 

Lee Badman | Network Architect (CWDP, CWNA, CWSP, Mobility+)

Information Technology Services
206 Machinery Hall
120 Smith Drive
Syracuse, New York 13244

t 315.443.3003   f 315.443.4325   e  <mailto:lhbad...@syr.edu>
lhbad...@syr.edu w its.syr.edu

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
syr.edu

 

 

 

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Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

[Howard, Christopher]

We have disabled the LEDs on all housing complex APs since day one.  The only 
time it’s caused a problem is during move-in of new students.  A parent calls 
the help desk claiming that the wireless isn’t working in their student’s room. 
 We even had one parent just a couple weeks ago tell us that they were very 
knowledgeable about Aruba APs and he knew for a fact it wasn’t turned on.  We 
had a chuckle.

If we have a problem out of an AP we can turn the lights on for that one until 
we have the problem settled and then turn them back off.

-Christopher

On Sep 6, 2016, at 9:57 AM, Lee H Badman 
> wrote:

First-world problems… Curious if others have gone down this road in Residence 
Halls. We’re not really being asked to, but are considering wholesale disabling 
LEDs on our Cisco APs in the dorms as a quality of life step. Has this caused 
anyone any pain when it comes to not being able to see the colors on the AP as 
status indication? Have you actually had requests to disable the LEDs? Overall 
experience with accommodating or denying the request?

Thanks-

Lee Badman


Lee Badman | Network Architect (CWDP, CWNA, CWSP, Mobility+)
Information Technology Services
206 Machinery Hall
120 Smith Drive
Syracuse, New York 13244
t 315.443.3003   f 315.443.4325   e lhbad...@syr.edu w 
its.syr.edu
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
syr.edu



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Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

[Christina Klam]

On the recent version of Cisco APs (2802/3802), lights are disabled by
default.  I am mixed about that.  While it does stop people from
wondering if we are spying on them (which we are not, it is just a LED
light!), it does make it harder to troubleshoot.  We no longer can ask
the user for the color or color sequence of the AP.

In the end, we have decided to stick with the Cisco defaults.

-- 
Christina Klam
Network Engineer
Institute for Advanced Study
Email:  ck...@ias.edu

Einstein Drive  Telephone: 609-734-8154
Princeton, NJ 08540 Fax:  609-951-4418

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Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling LEDs on APs

[Paul Seward]

Hi Lee,

The lights on the Cisco APs are so bright these days, that we do make an
effort to turn them off when they're installed in bedrooms.  If we don't,
we find people unplug the AP to try and get some sleep!

Currently we do it manually on a per-AP basis.  At one point our
provisioning process used to automatically turn the LEDs off everywhere,
but that stopped working during a model refresh of either AP or Controllers
(I forget which)

I should really get around to fixing that...

-Paul

On 6 September 2016 at 14:57, Lee H Badman  wrote:

> First-world problems… Curious if others have gone down this road in
> Residence Halls. We’re not really being asked to, but are considering
> wholesale disabling LEDs on our Cisco APs in the dorms as a quality of life
> step. Has this caused anyone any pain when it comes to not being able to
> see the colors on the AP as status indication? Have you actually had
> requests to disable the LEDs? Overall experience with accommodating or
> denying the request?
>
> Thanks-
>
> Lee Badman
>
>
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