Enable / Disable LEDs on Cisco LWAPP APs

Working as a consultant for many years you see it and hear it all! I had a situation one time where we deployed a new Cisco WLC solution. I was asked by the management of the hospital if we could turn off the LEDs on the access points in the "crazy ward" as the access points caused a lot of extra attention.

This is real easy to accomplish. In fact you can disable all the AP LEDs or specific ones. If you choose to select specific access points you will need to know the name of the ap. First drop down into the Controller CLI.

'config ap led-state enable/disable <Cisco AP name | all>'

CLI disable specific access point LED named lab1131

(Cisco Controller) config>ap led-state disable lab1131

CLI disable all access points LEDs

(Cisco Controller) config>ap led-state disable all

 

Comments

[Ben]

I work for an IT department where one of my colleagues would unplug the AP because he could see all the EMF radiation that was pouring out when the LED was enabled. Crazy thing was that he'd happily talk on his mobile phone without issue but thought he'd get poisoned by the wireless signal from our AP. So we're working on turning the LED off so that he's none the wiser. Thanks for your tip!

[George]

Ben, thats a great one to add to the list !

[Big Dave]

We just put some wireless APs in a movie theater. Apparently when all of the lights are off the little blue LEDs are too bright.

Thanks for the tip!