User's Manual
Chapter 8 HiveManager Configuration Examples
114 Aerohive
Because you use strict rate limiting for voice traffic, it is always assured the maximum bandwidth rate of 64
Kbps—even if the VoIP phone is updating its software or is otherwise engaged in activity other than voice traffic.
The other telephony services (DHCP and DNS mapped to Aerohive class 5, and HTTP and TFTP mapped to class
2) can function at the remaining bandwidth rate.
2.Click Configuration > User Profiles > New > General, enter the following, and then click Save:
• Name: VoIP (You cannot include any spaces when defining a user profile name.)
• Attribute: 2
Each user profile in the same WLAN must have a unique attribute number. When using a local authentication
mechanism, this attribute links the profile to an SSID so that the HiveAP applies the QoS settings for the
profile to all traffic using that SSID.
• Attribute Group: Leave this field empty.
An attribute group is a way to assign various RADIUS users with different attribute numbers to the same user
profile. Because VoIP users are not authenticated from a RADIUS server, this option is not applicable here.
• QoS Setting: QoS-VoIP
• Default VLAN: VLAN-2-EmployeeVoice (previously defined; see "Defining VLANs" on page100)
HiveAPs assign users matching the VoIP user profile to VLAN 2. This separates all employee voice traffic
from employee data traffic, which will be on VLAN 1. Guest traffic will be on VLAN 3, separating it from
both employee data and voice traffic.
• Description: Employees using VoIP
IT Staff QoS and User Profile
1.Click Configuration > QoS Policies > Rate Control & Queuing > New, enter the following, and then click Save:
• Name: QoS-ITdata
• Per User Rate Limit: 54000 Kbps (802.11a/b/g); 1000000 Kbps (802.11n) (These are the default values.)
This is the maximum amount of bandwidth that a single user belonging to this profile can use. It is the
maximum so that even if only one IT staff member is on the network, he or she can use all the available
bandwidth if needed.
• Description: QoS per IT staff member
• Per User Queue Management: Keep all the settings at their default values.
2.Click Configuration > User Profiles > New > General, enter the following, and then click Save:
• Name: IT (You cannot include any spaces when defining a user profile name.)
• Attribute: 3
Because the attribute number for the def-user and VoIP user profiles are 1 and 2, enter "3" here. This
number can be any unique number from 3 to 63. Because you will later map this profile to an SSID that uses
2 - Best Effort 1Weighted Round Robin30 14% 512512
1 - Best Effort 2Weighted Round Robin20 9% 512512
0 - BackgroundWeighted Round Robin10 4% 512512
Note: The default 802.11a/b/g rate limit for Aerohive class 6 (voice) is 512 Kbps and for 802.11n it is 20,000
Kbps. These default rate limits are large enough to support conference calls, but for typical
one-to-one communications, 64 Kbps is sufficient.
Class Number - Name Scheduling Type Scheduling
Weight
Weight %
(Read Only)
Policing Rate
Limit (Kbps)
(802.11a/b/g)
Policing Rate
Limit (Kbps)
(802.11n)