Help troubleshooting small PoC install of dumb AP's?

[Joe Gullo (surfrock66)]

I'm testing a small install of OpenWisp, deployed via Docker, for a series of 3 dumb AP's (Zyxel  NWA50AX Pro) with OpenWRT on them.  These are just PoE AP's, offering no DHCP, DNS, etc, and this POC will be used as a pitch for further OpenWISP deployment.

OpenWisp is installed as a docker container in its own VM, and that is on my server VLAN.  The AP's are on our network device VLAN, and they can all ping each other just fine, as well as bidirectional ping to and from the OpenWisp VM.

OpenWisp is up, and I've installed the OpenWisp packages on the AP's.  I did auto-provisioning, and they all show up under devices.  I deployed a demo config, and that shows as "applied".  The one hiccup is that each device is showing as critical, and that's because they're failing their ping check.

I noticed each device wasn't getting the "Management IP" populated, so I set the "OPENWISP_CONTROLLER_MANAGEMENT_IP_ONLY" setting to "False" in .env, but I'm not getting any feedback that the setting took, so I set the IP manually to match the "Last IP" value.  

I figured I should perform a ping test from the actual docker container, and not the VM, but there are 13 containers and I'm not sure which one the ping check would be coming from.

Any guidance would be appreciated!

[Federico Capoano]

Can you ping the devices from the central server using their local addresses?

Or do you need a management VPN between the server and the network devices?

Federico

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[Joe Gullo (surfrock66)]

I can ping the AP's from the openwisp vm, and I can ping the openwisp vm from each of the AP's; I am not sure that I can ping the AP's from inside the container openwisp is running in, and I'm not sure which container I should be pinging from.

[Federico Capoano]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 at 21:12, 'Joe Gullo (surfrock66)' via OpenWISP <open...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

I can ping the AP's from the openwisp vm, and I can ping the openwisp vm from each of the AP's; I am not sure that I can ping the AP's from inside the container openwisp is running in, and I'm not sure which container I should be pinging from.

I believe in this case you should make sure docker is configured to use the host network.

The containers which perform network requests are the celery containers.