I recently started work as a sysadmin for a small hospital. The network infrastructure is quite okay and consists mostly of HP Procurve and Aruba-branded-HPE stuff. While proper wifi controllers are to be implemented in reasonable time, at the moment Aruba Instant is in use.
The hospital does not want certain external visitors (they see as sketchy) to populate the entrance hall to use the wifi so we are told to shut it down in the evening.
No problem from a technical point of view, even if it's solving human problems with IT. Except, the area around to the A&E/emergency room uses the same SSID - and there are no such problems with sketchy people as there is enough hospital staff, so people would like to keep wifi active there.
Is there any way in Aruba Instant implementations to stop selected APs from broadcasting the SSID in certain timeslots (without manually removing patch cables) or is the only scriptable solution to shutdown the APs switch ports through some external job? Thank you for your help.
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