Register HP Wireless Access Points With an HP MSM Controller on a Different Subnet
KB ID 0000913 Problem If you have HP Access Points on remote sites, you have the choice of either leaving them in automomous mode, or registering them with a controller at another site. This is handy if you want to manage all your VSC’s from one location. You can do this via DNS, or via DHCP at that remote site, (I tend to setup both to be on the safe side). Solution Option 1: Set MSM Controller Location via DHCP 1. On your...
HP MSM 765zl – How To Factory Reset
KB ID 0000916 Problem I had to setup some HP wireless gear again this week. It had been installed a while ago, but not used and there was some problems with it, so I elected to flatten it and start again. The handbook goes through how to factory reset it from the web management interface. That’s great if you can get to the management console, but I could not. Solution As the MSM765zl is a controller that is on a...
HP MSM765zl and 775zl – Initial Setup and Routing
KB ID 0000917 Problem The MSM 765zl and 775zl, unlike the rest of the HP MSM controller series, do not have any physical Ethernet ports on them. So before you can get to its web management interface, you need to be able to give it an IP address, and then the controller needs to be able to find a route back to where you are, assuming you are not on a flat unrouted/single VLAN. Obviously if you are directly connected to the same...
HP MSM Controller – Using RADIUS With Windows Server
KB ID 0000922 Problem I’m very disappointed with HP, theres next to no information on how to do this. My plan was to secure wireless access with certificates, so only clients with a valid digital certificate could authenticate and connect to the wireless. After spending nearly a whole day on the phone to various technical support departments at HP, this remained an impossible requirement! In the end, as the client only had a...
Install and Configure an HP UPS Network Module
KB ID 0000813 Problem I installed one of these a couple of weeks ago, and there’s some good documentation with the module itself so installing it into the UPS and giving it an IP address was easy, getting the right client software to talk to it was a pain. Solution Configure the Network Module 1. Physically install the module in the UPS, it’s fixed with two screws and you can install it with the UPS powered on. 2. It takes a...
HP Networking ‘ProCurve’ – Trunking / Aggregating Ports
KB ID 0000638 Problem I was lending a hand this week, while my colleague swapped out a lot of switches. I don’t usually deploy a large number of HP switches, so I was surprised when we installed a chassis switch and after patching the fiber links, the Cisco Catalyst switches all got upset and we lost three out of four ping packets. I (wrongly) assumed that STP would be enabled, so I wandered back and pulled the second fiber...