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Monitor and Manage Access Points

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Use the Access Points page to view information about your APs and to complete maintenance tasks such as renaming and rebooting APs, clearing profile overrides, uploading images, and more.

Access Points Page Overview

To find this page, select Access Points from the left menu.

At the top of the page, you can use various features to get information and customize what you're seeing in the table.

Table 1: Top-of-Page Features
Feature	Description	More Information
Site List	Select the site that you want to view.
More	This button appears only if you've selected one or more APs in the table. Take various actions to manage selected APs.	Reassign an AP to Another Site Rename an AP Release AP Clear Profile Overrides Batch Edit Labels, PoE Passthrough, and Radio Configurations Upload Images Bounce AP Tunnels
Inventory Button	Go to the Inventory page to see information for your organization's devices.	Inventory information in the Juniper Mist Management Guide
Create Wireless Networks Button	Go to the WLANs page to add and manage your networks.	WLANs and WLAN Templates
Claim APs Button	Add new APs to your organization.	Claim a Juniper AP
Upgrade APs	This button appears only if you've selected one or more APs in the table. Upgrade the selected APs.	Upgrade the Firmware on a Juniper AP
Reboot APs	This button appears only if you've selected one or more APs in the table. Reboot the selected APs.
Table Settings Button	Open the Table Settings window, where you can select the information to show or hide in the table. You also can drag items up or down in the settings window to reorder the columns of the table.
Refresh Button	Update the page with the latest data.
Device Totals	The total number of access points and clients, and the number of each AP model.
Metrics	Metrics for basic criteria. Click a button to see only the APs with issues.	AP Metrics

Selecting APs in the Table

Select the site at the top of the page, and then select one or more APs in the table.

Individual APs—Use the check boxes in the first column to select individual APs.
All APs—Use the check box in the header row to select all APs.

Reassign an AP to Another Site

Select the APs to reassign.
At the top of the page, click More > Assign to Site
In the pop-up window, select the site, and then click Assign to Site.

Rename an AP

Select the APs to rename.
At the top of the page, click More > Rename.
In the pop-up window, enter text or variables to create the names for the selected APs. OR leave the box blank to reset the APs to an empty name.
You can enter text, spaces, special characters, and variables. For example, let's say you want the AP name to include the site name, and an integer, such as Boston - 1, Chicago - 2, and so on. You'd enter [site] - [ctr] as shown in the following example.

Note: If you use a counter variable, you can enter the number that you want to start with. If you leave the starting number field blank, then the numbers start with 1.
Click Rename APs.

Release AP

Release an AP from your organization's inventory.

Select the APs to release.
At the top of the page, click More > Release
Read the warning message, and if you want to continue, click Yes.

Clear Profile Overrides

Follow this procedure if you've modified the AP configuration and want to revert to the settings in the device profile.

Select the APsto clear overrides for.
At the top of the page, click More > Clear Profile Overrides.
Read the warning message, and if you want to continue, click Clear Overrides.

Batch Edit Labels, PoE Passthrough, and Radio Configurations

Select multiple access points, and then apply new settings to all of them. You can make these types of changes:

Add or remove labels.
Enable or disable PoE passthrough.
Configure dual band, 5 GHz, or 6 GHz.

Select the APs to edit.
At the top of the page, click More > Batch Edit
Read the warning to understand the impact of these changes.
Select the check box for each setting that you want to change, and then enter the new settings.
Click OK.

Upload Images

Select the APs to upload images for.
At the top of the page, click More > Upload Images.
Add the images, and then click Save.

Bounce AP Tunnels

Select the APs to bounce tunnels for.
At the top of the page, click More > Bounce AP Tunnels to Mist Edge.

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Monitor and Manage Access Points

Access Points Page Overview
Selecting APs in the Table
Reassign an AP to Another Site
Rename an AP
Release AP
Clear Profile Overrides
Batch Edit Labels, PoE Passthrough, and Radio Configurations
Upload Images
Bounce AP Tunnels

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Monitor and Manage Access Points

Access Points Page Overview

Selecting APs in the Table

Reassign an AP to Another Site

Rename an AP

Release AP

Clear Profile Overrides

Batch Edit Labels, PoE Passthrough, and Radio Configurations

Upload Images

Bounce AP Tunnels

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