After mounting and cabling a cloud-managed AP at a permit office, what verification should the technician complete before leaving the site?
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Short Explanation
Screws tight is not “done.” Watch the LEDs and make sure the AP actually joins the cloud or controller before you drive off. A dark or orphaned AP is a truck roll tomorrow.
Full Explanation
After mounting and cabling a cloud-managed AP at a permit office, the technician must confirm status LEDs and successful cloud or controller join—or the equivalent online state—so the AP is truly up before leaving the site. A tightly mounted chassis with dark or disconnected cloud state is not a finished civic install. Verification prevents return trips when clerks arrive to a silent radio that never adopted.
Power-cycling the building UPS twice to force a fresh RF calibration is unnecessary disruption and is not a join-verification step. Deleting the AP from inventory so it rediscovers with a clean serial hash risks losing adopted configuration and is not a normal close-out action. Leaving immediately once mount screws are tight treats online status as optional and abandons acceptance testing for municipal service.
Exam caveat: physical mounting complete does not equal service complete. CWTS close-out includes operational online confirmation for controller- or cloud-managed APs.
Operational check: wait for expected LED patterns and cloud/controller online status, place a test client on the designed SSID, verify connectivity appropriate to the permit office design, and only then release the site and update inventory.