Logs/Monitoring of AP7C units
This afternoon two of my three AP7Cs went offline. Most clients reconnected to the third functional AP7. All three AP7C’s are connected to a PoE++ switch that is then connected to the Firewalla gold. This setup has worked flawlessly since the fall of last year. I immediately thought of overheating as a potential culprit but given the fact that two units, one in a cold basement and the other in a warmer upstairs both had issues at the same time, I felt it was unlikely a thermal issue. I checked the app to see if any firmware was pushed and saw nothing since April 16th.
I ultimately powered my whole networking rack down, powered everything up and seemed to still have some AP7 issues (all AP7s complained they couldn’t get an IP).
I then took the opportunity to update the PoE switch firmware, rebooted the Firewalla and PoE switch again and things came back up and all AP7s reconnected.
An hour or so later at least one if not two AP7s were down. I then began reseating all the PoE cables from the AP7s to the PoE switch ports, leaving several minutes to pass for one to remain offline since it seemed to be rebooting and/or not allowing client devices to connect (the led state would switch from red to blue frequently at the end, when earlier it was a solid blue when not working).
I was surprised there were no alerts from my Firewalla that two of my three APs were offline today. The only way I found out there was a problem was due to the fact that an Apple TV is pinned to only one AP and that AP was down.
Here are my questions after troubleshooting the problem:
Is monitoring of the APs for availability/uptime, similar to the WAN monitoring on the software roadmap (with app alerts)?
Are there any logs on the Firewalla gold that I can access somewhere in the app or by using SSH to the Firewalla to determine why my AP7s went offline?
Are there any shell commands to pull thermal readouts for the AP7s? If not, will this be added to the app in the future? What is the accepted Fahrenheit range when measured by the AP7C device? The most problematic one I had today is significantly hotter than the others on the non Firewalla logo side so I am curious to check temperature readings. It has always been warmer than the others since it was installed last fall.
Thanks for your time reviewing my questions!