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Chapter 8 HiveManager Configuration Examples
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EXAMPLE 9: CREATING WLAN POLICIES
Through HiveManager, you can configure two broad types of features:
• Policy-based features – In combination, these features form policies that control how users access the network:
SSIDs, user profiles, QoS (Quality of Service) forwarding mechanisms and rates, hives, AAA (authentication,
authorization, accounting) services, management services (DNS, NTP, syslog), mobility policies, IP and MAC
firewall policies, and VLAN assignments.
• Connectivity-based features – These features control how hive members communicate with the network and
how radios operate at different modes, frequencies, and signal strengths.
A WLAN policy is an assembly of policy-based configurations that HiveManager pushes to all HiveAPs that you assign
to the policy. Because these configurations are policy-based, they can apply across multiple physical devices. In
contrast, connectivity-based configurations are more appropriately applied to smaller sets of devices or to
individual devices themselves.
In this example, you create "WLANpolicy-hq1" and "WLANpolicy-hq2" for the two buildings at corporate headquarters
and "WLANpolicy-branch1" for the branch site. You add a hive, management server assignments, SSID profile–radio
mode–user profile mappings, plus the QoS settings for each user group.
WLANpolicy-hq1
This WLAN policy is for all the HiveAPs in Building 1 at the corporate headquarters depicted in Figure 1 on page 89.
The New WLAN Policy dialog box consists of several pages. The configuration of the items on each page is presented
individually and in detail. The other WLAN policies are clones of this one with only minor changes.
WLANpolicy-hq1 (Page 1)
On the first page of the new WLAN policy dialog box, you define the name and a description of the WLAN policy, and
set network settings, service settings, and management server assignments for the HiveAPs to which you will apply
this WLAN policy. See Figure 17.
Figure 17 First Page of the WLAN Policy Dialog Box