XG managed APX 740 APs randomly going offline and dropping all clients

Feature and severity: I have a bug (appears to be) with SFOS v18 v3 and APX 740 wireless access points that I consider moderately impacting.

Summary: I am unsure of the trigger, however, every now and then (appears random but multiple times per day) all 3 of my APX 740s “appear” to go offline then come back a minute or two later.

Observed behavior: All 3 APs drop all clients and the SSID isn’t broadcast then after two or three minutes they come back.  All the clients need to re-home to the best AP again.  I run 3 740s using an XG210 as the controller and have 3 SSIDs (one for only 2.4ghz, one for only 5ghz and one for a guest SSID that’s 2.4 + 5ghz).  I thought it may be related to auto channel selection so I manually set the channel on both 5ghz and 2.4ghz radios on all APs (different channels of course).  The problem persisted though.  I don’t recall having this issue previously but it may have been happening without me being aware.  I say that because I’ve recently added significant home automation devices so now it’s very noticeable when this happens.

i tried Sophos central wireless and it’s worse.  I won’t go back to central until several releases come out.

Reproduce it:  This happens on its own many times a day but nothing that forces it that I’m aware of.

Supporting logs: The log viewer, under “SYSTEM” shows (just a brief excerpt for brevity):

SYSTEM
2020-01-05 14:13:20
WirelessProtection
   
[MASTER] sending notification about offline AP P210018WVRKDY75
18006
SYSTEM
2020-01-05 13:00:20
WirelessProtection
   
Successfully sent config to AP [P210018V7XJJH9F].
18007
SYSTEM
2020-01-05 13:00:05
WirelessProtection
   
Successfully sent config to AP [P210018WVRKDY75].
18007
SYSTEM
2020-01-05 12:59:48
WirelessProtection
   
[MASTER] sending notification about offline AP P210018V7XJJH9F
18006
SYSTEM
2020-01-05 12:59:27
WirelessProtection
   
[MASTER] sending notification about offline AP P210018WVRKDY75
18006
SYSTEM
2020-01-05 12:57:29
WirelessProtection
   
Successfully sent config to AP [P210018V7XJJH9F].
18007
SYSTEM
2020-01-05 12:56:49
WirelessProtection
   
[MASTER] sending notification about offline AP P210018V7XJJH9F
18006
SYSTEM
2020-01-05 12:56:05
WirelessProtection
   
Successfully sent config to AP [P210018WVRKDY75].
18007
SYSTEM
2020-01-05 12:55:25
WirelessProtection
   
[MASTER] sending notification about offline AP P210018WVRKDY75
18006

 

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  • No new offline entries as of tonight but I noticed this immediately following the reboot yesterday:

    SYSTEM
    2020-01-06 06:41:57
    Wireless Protection
       
    new firmware detected for APX740: 11.0.009-2
    17998
    SYSTEM
    2020-01-06 06:41:57
    Wireless Protection
       
    new firmware detected for APX530: 11.0.009-2
    17998

    The version showing under pattern update is 11.0.009 not 11.0.009-2 but I’m unsure if that’s cosmetic or not.  The pattern update page shows no new firmware available.  

    I‘ll check the logs daily and post if I see the behavior start again.