Can you ping the devices from the central server using their local
addresses?
Or do you need a management VPN between the server and the network devices?

Federico

On Tue, 26 Aug 2025 at 13:01, 'Joe Gullo (surfrock66)' via OpenWISP <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm testing a small install of OpenWisp, deployed via Docker, for a series
> of 3 dumb AP's (Zyxel  NWA50AX Pro) with OpenWRT on them.  These are just
> PoE AP's, offering no DHCP, DNS, etc, and this POC will be used as a pitch
> for further OpenWISP deployment.
>
> OpenWisp is installed as a docker container in its own VM, and that is on
> my server VLAN.  The AP's are on our network device VLAN, and they can all
> ping each other just fine, as well as bidirectional ping to and from the
> OpenWisp VM.
>
> OpenWisp is up, and I've installed the OpenWisp packages on the AP's.  I
> did auto-provisioning, and they all show up under devices.  I deployed a
> demo config, and that shows as "applied".  The one hiccup is that each
> device is showing as critical, and that's because they're failing their
> ping check.
>
> I noticed each device wasn't getting the "Management IP" populated, so I
> set the "OPENWISP_CONTROLLER_MANAGEMENT_IP_ONLY" setting to "False" in
> .env, but I'm not getting any feedback that the setting took, so I set the
> IP manually to match the "Last IP" value.
>
> I figured I should perform a ping test from the actual docker container,
> and not the VM, but there are 13 containers and I'm not sure which one the
> ping check would be coming from.
>
> Any guidance would be appreciated!
>
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