Migrating Locally Managed Instant APs to AOS 10

One of the first requirements for migrating to AOS 10 is to prepare the AP for management by adding to GLCP and Central. Once that has been done, even the locally managed IAP is just another Central managed IAP.

Upgrade process

1. Go to Global > Organization > Groups. On the Network Structure tab, expand the Unprovisioned devices group.

2. Select the Cluster and/or APs to be migrated by clicking the entry in the list, then click the Move Devices button to choose a target AOS 10-enabled group as the destination.
   

   

   
   
   Note

   Moving a VC also moves the member Instant APs to the new group.

3. After this action, the following AP boot process starts:

   • Aruba Central upgrades the APs to AOS 10.

   • APs boot up in AOS 10 mode and reconnect with Aruba Central using AOS 10 firmware.

   • Aruba Central performs a configuration audit and pushes the AOS 10 config from the destination group.

   • Aruba Central cleans up the old, swarm-related state.

Alternate methods

1. IAPs can be directly upgraded to an AOS 10 image using one of the traditional upgrade methods through the WebUI or CLI. Add the APs to Aruba Central. After they are rebooted, the APs will operate as AOS 10 APs managed by Aruba Central. This step could be used if the current running version on the IAPs is 8.5 or earlier.

2. Using TAC’s help, with Activate:

   • AOS 10 image can be pushed to APs.
   • APs are added to Aruba Central.

Revert to Aruba Instant 8 and local control

If needed, convert the APs back to Aruba Instant 8 and use local control again:

1. Create a new AP group for Aruba Instant 8 and set a firmware compliance policy to the desired version of software.
   

   Caution

   Setting this compliance is crucial. If the compliance is not set and an AP is moved back into an Aruba Instant 8 group, a configuration mismatch will occur.

2. Move the APs to the newly created ArubaOS 8 group.

3. After the APs are moved, Aruba Central pushes the specified image to the APs. The APs reboot and resume operation as Aruba Instant 8 APs.

4. After the APs are converted successfully back to AOS 8, remove the Central application assignment using the HPE GreenLake console to remove the APs from Central management.

5. Reboot the IAP cluster to immediately revert to local management.