topic Re: 9800 wlc how to turn off the wireless signal of a specified AP in Wireless

9800 wlc how to turn off the wireless signal of a specified AP

id404 — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 04:03:27 GMT

As the AP deployment is relatively dense, some of the wireless signal overlap serious, intends to turn off the wireless RF signal of one or two of the AP, please ask how to operate?

Re: 9800 wlc how to turn off the wireless signal of a specified AP

Leo Laohoo — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 04:20:52 GMT

In enable mode:

ap name <AP_NAME> shutdown

Re: 9800 wlc how to turn off the wireless signal of a specified AP

Flavio Miranda — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 09:51:46 GMT

If you want to disable a specific radio on the AP but not the whole AP, use this:

ap name YOUR_AP_NAME dot11 24ghz shutdown

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless/controller/9800/config-guide/b_wl_16_10_cg/802-11-parameters-for-cisco-access-points.html

Re: 9800 wlc how to turn off the wireless signal of a specified AP

Rasika Nayanajith — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 20:57:07 GMT

If you like to do it via GUI, you can easily navigate "Configuration -> Wireless -> Access Points -> "select AP under 5GHz or 2.4GHz radis" -> Disable admin status"

HTH

Rasika

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Re: 9800 wlc how to turn off the wireless signal of a specified AP

Tony M — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 20:08:58 GMT

Hi Rasika. Do you know if we can do this via CLI?

Re: 9800 wlc how to turn off the wireless signal of a specified AP

Leo Laohoo — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 23:10:45 GMT

There are many ways to do this:

1. Admin disable the AP

2. Turn off the radios individually

3. Put the AP in an Policy Tag with zero SSID

All can be done using CLI or GUI.

Re: 9800 wlc how to turn off the wireless signal of a specified AP

Mark Elsen — Thu, 01 May 2025 06:21:07 GMT

- @Tony M FYI : https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless/9800-wlc-how-to-turn-off-the-wireless-signal-of-a-specified-ap/m-p/4628744/highlight/true#M243081

Re: 9800 wlc how to turn off the wireless signal of a specified AP

Tony M — Thu, 01 May 2025 12:32:23 GMT

Thanks. I saw this before but tried from configuration mode... Worked in exec mode!