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 <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 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 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> w its.syr.edu<http://its.syr.edu/> SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY syr.edu<http://syr.edu/> ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
