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> > > > > > > > > > ********** > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent > Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > > -- James Helzerman Wireless Network Engineer University of Michigan - ITS Communications Systems and Data Centers Phone: 734-615-9541 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
