static LAN IP address

[AKANKWASA GODFREY]

Hi members,

I have configured Meraki C9166I APs with static IP address as seen below but it is receiving its IP address through the DHCP. what could the problem

[Philip D'Ath]

This happens when the AP is not able to talk to the Meraki cloud using the configured static IP. It falls back to DHCP and tries that instead.

ps. I can't think of a reason why you would both to give APs a static IP address. Why are you doing that?

[AKANKWASA GODFREY]

From the meraki guide I was using they recommend using a static IP address besides we want to have one constant IP address rather than the changing DHCP address

[ww^ · Accepted solution]

Is the native vlan of the switchport 234? Then leave the vlan field empty

[Ryan_Miles]

That is the problem 👆

[AKANKWASA GODFREY]

Thank you, it is working fine

[Philip D'Ath]

Why do you wsnt one constant IP address? Why does that matter?

[BlakeRichardson]

For monitoring systems like PRTG or Zabbix you are better to use static IP addresses.

[Philip D'Ath]

PRTG has native Meraki API monitoring support ...

[BlakeRichardson]

Yip and it's not great. Licensing API doesn't work with PDL either.

[CMR]

Maybe they knew PDL was on the way out...!

[CMR]

If you want the APs to retain the same IP, it is a good idea to use fixed DHCP addresses. That way when you replace an AP you can just update the DHCP fixed IP