I noticed some odd blinking of the white LED. The AP was online in the ExtremeCloud IQ after all…
I found out of Extreme Cloud’s knowledge base that this means that the AP in question does receive PoE (802.3af) but is supposed to receive PoE+ (802.3at) instead. I knew the switches were up to the task, them being 2530’s (J9772A, J9774A and J9778A)
I emailed our reseller to let them know that we had an issue regarding those AP’s, I promised them to keep them updated too whenever I find the cause and/or solution.
The first I checked was the power-over-ethernet budget on the switch I had this AP305C hooked on to, along with other AP130 in production. I confirmed the PoE budget was not on it’s max, by far even below 50%, so I checked the LLDP statistics and it showed that the PD (Powered Device) was ‘type2’ indicating it is recognised as PoE+ (802.3at). Better said, it’s class was 4 which is only available for PoE+ devices.