D-Link DWS-4026 [477/741] Ap authentication failure status

MonitoringStatusandStatistics

D-Link UnifiedWiredandWirelessAccessSystem

November2011 Page477

D‐LinkUWSUserManual

APAuthenticationFailureStatus

AnAPmightfailtoassociatetotheswitchduetoerrorssuchasinvalidpacketformatorvendorID,orbecause

theAPisnotconfiguredasavalidAPwiththecorrectlocalorRADIUSauthenticationinformation.

ToviewalistofAPsthatfailedtoassociatewiththeDWS‐4

000Seriesswitch,clickWLAN>Monitoring>Access

Point>APAuthenticationFailureStatus.

Figure317:APAuthenticationFailureStatus

TheAPauthenticationfailurelistshowsinformationaboutAPsthatfailedtoestablishcommunicationwiththe

DWS‐4000Seriesswitch.TheAPcanfailduetooneofthef

ollowingreasons:

•NoDatabaseEntry—TheMACaddressoftheAPisnotinthelocalValidAPdatabaseortheexternal

RADIUSserverdatabase,sotheAPhasnotbeenvalidated.

•LocalAuthentication—Theauthenticationpa sswordconfiguredintheAPdidnotmatchthepassword

configuredintheloc

aldatabase.

•NotManaged—TheAPisintheValidAPdatabase,buttheAPModeinthelocaldatabaseisnotsetto

Managed.

•RADIUSAuthentication—ThepasswordconfiguredintheRADIUSclientfortheRADIUSserverwas

rejectedbytheserver.

•RADIUSChallenged—TheRADIUSse

rverisconfiguredtousetheChallenge‐Responseauthentication

mode,whichisincompatiblewiththeAP.

•RADIUSUnreachable—TheRADIUSserverthattheAPisconfiguredtouseisunreachable.

• InvalidRADIUSResponse—TheAPreceivedaresponsepacketfromtheRADIUSserverthatwasnot

recognizedorinvalid.

•

InvalidProfileID—TheprofileIDspecifiedintheRADIUSdatabasemaynotexistontheswitch.Thiscan

alsohappenwiththelocaldatabasewhentheconfigurationhasbeenreceivedfromapeerswitch.

•ProfileMismatch‐HardwareType—TheAPhardwaretypespecifiedintheAPProfileisnotco

mpatible

withtheactualAPhardware.

IfyouusethelocaldatabaseforAPValidation,youcanclicktheWLAN>Administration>BasicSetup>Valid

APtabtomodifytheAPconfiguration.IfyouuseaRADIUSserverforAPvalidation,youmustaddtheMAC

addressoftheAPtotheRAD

IUSserverdatabase.

ClicktheMACaddressoftheAPtoviewmoreinformationabouttheAP. IftheAPis notaD‐LinkAP,somevalues

areunknown.