Wireless MSM430/460/466/466-R, Select Access Points, MSM WLAN — HP 517 802.11ac (WW) Unified Walljack
Covered past the OEM cutoff by an independent maintainer.
Modules and units still circulate on the secondary market.
Carrying production traffic? Set the replacement window now, not mid-outage.
Low-criticality role — document the risk, harden backups, retire on your terms.
No. HPE's last date of support for J9842A was Jul 2021 (derived from HPE's published 5-year support-life policy applied to the end-of-sale date) — it is past end of service life.
J9842A reached end of sale Jul 2016, per the HPE end-of-sale bulletin.
Jul 2021 — derived from HPE's published 5-year support-life policy applied to the end-of-sale date.
After the last date of support, J9842A units can often be kept in production through third-party maintenance providers. HPE no longer issues software fixes, support, or hardware replacement for it.