Cisco AiroNet 1140 Series - General question.

[emilyforcisco1]

I have a very simple question regarding the Cisco AiroNet 1140 series which I know very well it's no longer being supported / EOL. Bear with me while I explain the situation:

Currently it has HTTPS enabled and works as intended. To my knowledge, this is a self signed certificate that is created when you enable HTTPS on the device, the current certificate expires on 01/08/2026.

Is this the only certificate that can be used with this particular device? Self signed from the own device. I know it's unlikely it will expire before we get around to upgrade all of our AP's but was just wondering if this is the way it should be as I cannot find any documentation on certificate renewal or to install, let's say a wild card certificate.

[marce1000]

Hmm, if they are standalone AP's strictly the certificate is the running config, and theoretically it could be replaced by another, by copying and pasting a new cert in the running config, but that is unsupported , to say the least.

For 'controller-based' AP's ; they are supported untill 8.0.x, where a command is available to ignore old certificates :

  (Cisco Controller) >config ap cert-expiry-ignore {mic | ssc} enable

From a technological viewpoint, I would say they will be very outdated, in 2026, and should probably be dumped earlier.

M.