Locate a switch or access point
Blink a switch’s or access point’s locator light for five minutes from Cenovel: who can, where the button is, the limits and which models support it.
GuideReviewed against the application source on October 12, 2026
What Locate does
Which of these switches is the one on my screen? Locate blinks a switch’s or access point’s locator light for five minutes so someone in the closet can find it. It sends the vendor’s own locator command, or Juniper Mist’s locate call, and never changes configuration. Every locate is recorded in the audit log.
Who can use it
- Operators, Administrators and Administrator EX, with view rights on the equipment. Others are refused, and the refusal is audited.
- It is on by default under Let Cenovel blink locator lights in Settings › System › Features. Turned off, nothing is blinked.
- For a Mist-managed device, it uses the Mist connection’s write-capable credential.
Blink a light
- On a switch, choose Locate in the Ports card’s head; it opens on the stack member in view. On an access point, choose More › Locate.
- On a stack, choose which member in Which member.
- Choose Start blinking. The page then says the device is blinking until a time, who started it and when.
- Choose Stop blinking to end it sooner. Otherwise the light turns itself off after five minutes, even if Cenovel restarts.
Limits
- One locate at a time per device, and at most four per device in ten minutes.
- If the light doesn’t turn off, Cenovel tries three times about a minute apart, then says the light may still be blinking and offers Try to stop it again.
Which devices can be located
| Vendor | Supported |
|---|---|
| Juniper EX (Junos) | Each member: EX2300 (not the -24MP or -48MP) and EX3400 from Junos 19.4, EX4300-48MP from 20.1, EX4400, EX4600 and EX4650. Not the EX4100. |
| Cisco Catalyst (IOS XE) | Each member of a Catalyst 9200 (17.4 and later), 9300 or 9500 (16.9 and later); the active supervisor of a 9400, 9600 or high-performance 9500. |
| Extreme Switch Engine | Listed models from EXOS 15.3. |
| Juniper Mist | Mist access points, and Mist-managed switches, each member by its hardware address. |
Anything else says “This device can’t be located from Cenovel.” with the reason. That includes Extreme Fabric Engine switches, access points on a Cisco wireless controller, and anything managed by ExtremeCloud IQ, whose API has no locate call: use Locate Device in ExtremeCloud IQ.
See also: Work with a switch or stack · What Cenovel may change on a device
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