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  • 1.  Wired Airgroup AOS10

    Posted Dec 01, 2025 11:17 PM

    I finally managed to get air print working where the printer is on a wired port and clients are wireless. I have wireless clients on VLAN 101 and wired printer on VLAN 100. The APs (AOS10) and switch (6100) they connect to are Central managed and the APs are trunked to both the printer wired VLAN and wireless VLAN. My L3 device for inter-vlan routing is a FortiGate firewall. What I found was the printer service never showed up in Central, but it found all the clients. I'd already enabled AirGroup in central and allowed the air print server. I finally stumbled across this Aruba guide: https://arubanetworking.hpe.com/techdocs/aos/aos10/services/airgroup/configuration/

    There's a heading in there about 'wired and wireless servers' and I had to manually add my wired printer as a server. The wording in this section is not very clear so I wanted to get another opinion. With AirGroup services must you always manually configure your wired connected servers manually? This section seems to imply that Airgroup only works by default when clients and servers are wireless connected.

    The switch ports the APs connect to are configured as below. VLAN 100 is my wired VLAN which my printer is on while 101 is my wires VLAN. I assume Airgroup doesn't care if the VLAN 100 is native or 802.1q for discovery to work? :

    interface 1/1/1

        description AP

        no shutdown

        vlan trunk native 100

        vlan trunk allowed 100-101

        apply fault-monitor profile default

        loop-protect

        exit



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  • 2.  RE: Wired Airgroup AOS10
    Best Answer

    Posted Dec 02, 2025 01:04 AM

    yes you have to manually add the wired airgroup servers and most importantly ensure the VLANs that they are on in your case VLAN100, is trunked to the switch port where the AOS10 APs are connected. This is so that the APs can see the mDNS and SSDP queries.



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  • 3.  RE: Wired Airgroup AOS10

    Posted Dec 02, 2025 05:11 PM

    Thanks for confirming! 

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