Installation guide

BlueSecure™ Access Point 1800 Installation Guide

VIII. Using the BSAP Command Line Interface (CLI)

Note: Normally you will not need to access the BSAP CLI. In a properly provisioned Bluesocket

WLAN, the BSAP will automatically discover and communicate with the BSC. We recommend

that you use the CLI to configure the BSAP only in a lab or test environment, or where a pre-

defined static IP address is desired.

You can connect to the serial console port or the Ethernet port to perform local configuration of

the BSAP using its command line interface (CLI). You can use the BSAP’s CLI to manually

configure:

• BSAP’s Network Configuration (IP address, Default Gateway)

• IP address of the home BSC from which the BSAP will download its configuration and

software image

• Site survey mode

Accessing the BSAP CLI via serial port

Connect the special serial DB-9 to RJ-45 serial cable (rollover cable) to the BSAP-1800 serial

port.

1. Run a terminal program on your laptop configured with the following settings:

Speed: 115,200

Data Bits: 8

Parity: None

Stop Bits: 1

Flow Control: None

2. Initiate the connection to the BSAP CLI

Accessing the BSAP CLI via Ethernet (i.e SSH)

Access the BSAP CLI using an SSH client (the example uses putty) For example:

1. The default management IP address for the BSAP-1800 is 192.168.190.1. Configure your

laptop computer to have a static IP address in this same subnet, for example

192.168.190.2.

2. Ping the AP from the laptop to make sure it can be seen.

3. Configure putty to use SSH and then connect to the IP address of the AP (by default

192.168.190.1) on port 2335.