No IP address on Aironet 1100 AP

We have 5 Aironet 1100 series APs deployed in one of our buildings. A few days ago, 3 of them showed down in our monitoring. The next day the other 2 showed down. When I go to the switches that they are attached to and do a show cdp neighbor detail, I see all the access points but NO IP address. Also, when I went to to site, I can connect to the APs via wireless and be on the network just fine. We have static IP addresses assigned to them. However, they are not pingable and do not show up in the ARP table of the switch.
They have been running a couple of years without changes.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Carl

Probably a dumb question but have you rebooted the AP's? Also, are they drawing power from a powered switch or do they have their own mains power bricks attached?

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I have taken over some access points from a company which were providing our wireless service and have not yet received the IP scheme information.
I need to get onto one of the Aironet 1100 access points to see what the config etc is.
I will only be able to take it down for a few hours, how to I actually connect to it.
I am pretty sure it is configured with a static IP address which I do not know so is there anyway of connecting to it without using the Reset to Default method obviously!
I have tried IPSU and a hub but no good.
All replied gratefully received!!
Darran

Thanks for the replies guys but it hasnt solved my problem.
Looks like it's not a static address after all
I have done the following
1. Plugged the AP into a switch on our network and connected to it wirelessly. I receive an IP the very same as if I was plugged into the switch directly and when I do an IPconfig I get the very same info as if I was plugged directly in. Still cannot find the AP IP Address though.
2. Plugged the AP into a switch on our network and connected to the switch and did a show cdp neighbour, the access point does not show up, only other switches.
3. Read the user guide and connected my laptop directly to the AP with a CAT 5 cable and gave the laptop an address of 10.0.0.2 . The AP does not seem to revert to 10.0.0.1 as suggested in the manual.
4. I have tried to run the IPSU under all the above conditions, searching by the mac address of the AP but it has not received anything.
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Hello,
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Complete the steps in this section in order to reset Cisco IOS Software-based APs.
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I assume that you are using the mode button to reset the configurations on these units -- this procedure *should* reset all credentials to Cisco.
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