Recently I was doing some lab work with some AP’s running
InstantOS 6.4.2 and decided to upgrade them to Instant 8.5. Going through the upgrade was
quick and painless. However, once I was up to Instant 8.5, I decided to clear the
configuration on the AP’s in order to remove any of the prior lab
configurations that I had done. When the AP’s came back up, I was surprised to
find out that the default password was no longer working. It turns out that
with InstantOS 8.5 the default password is now the Serial Number of the AP.
This put me in a bit of a predicament because the AP’s I was working with were remotely
located. Due to this, I had no way of physically finding the Serial Number of
the AP.
To get around this you need to be able to console into the
AP and power cycle the AP (disabling then re-enabling PoE on the port works.)
As soon as the AP begins to boot watch for the below to appear.
