The Symbol AP-41xx Access Point does not report errors in the deployment of a configuration before a restart, instead it ignores errors (and restarts with whatever the last saved configuration is).

It is important to review the detected changes in the configuration after a configuration deployment to ascertain whether the desired changes took effect.

Configuration deployment will change config filename and tftp server

Because the device reboots on deployment, a configuration deployment attempt will result in the TFTP server being set to the NAS server used for deployment and the config file name will be set to the filename used by NAS for the deployment.

Configuration deployment that changes passwords or community strings may result in loss of connectivity through NAS

Since passwords and community strings cannot be captured from the device configuration NAS has no way of knowing if these have changed. If an Edit & Deploy action is taken that includes changes to these values, NAS will not be able to identify these changes and may end up losing connectivity to the device after the deployment.

You will need to manually reconfigure NAS with the new passwords and/or community strings in order to restore connectivity with the device.

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