Cisco Mobility Express: AP join fails
I ran into this issue with several / APs when trying to join them to Mobility Express (ME) WLC. ME was set up on AP with version AP was 1 minor version off and it did require code update in order to join the controller.
Logs from AP looked as below.
loudlog Error: TRUNCATED_TAR_FILE, not updating ubi vol
logger -p 0 -t upgrade Error: TRUNCATED_TAR_FILE, not updating ubi vol
echo www.cronistalascolonias.com.ar: Error: TRUNCATED_TAR_FILE, not updating ubi vol
www.cronistalascolonias.com.ar: Error: TRUNCATED_TAR_FILE, not updating ubi vol
capwap-upgrade script returned failure when calling PREDOWNLOAD.
The issue appeared to be related to high flash usage on AP, above 80% and the AP was unable to download the new image since there was not enough space.
To override storage limitation you will need to manually load AP image with archive command. Make sure TFTP is on the same LAN for faster transfer.
archive download-sw /no-reload tftp://<TFTP IP>/<Image name>
One tricky part is to match AP image to WLC image. For that, you will need this Cisco document. Based on it WLC version matches AP IOS release (3)JF8.
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