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Example 5: Large Campus with Branch Offices
With continued growth, the original Acme Works building is now surrounded by multiple buildings
within a large campus setting. The company also has two branch offices in neighboring
communities. The decision is made to implement NMS Pro for enterprise-class network
management. This solution will provide network administrators with extensive control and
oversight, centralized monitoring, and fault management.
The campus buildings and branch offices lend themselves to a hierarchical management structure in
which an NM Portal AP is configured in each building. Each NM Portal AP handles policy
distribution and software upgrades at its location as directed by NMS Pro. The NM Portal AP also
serves as a backup security portal in the event that another RADIUS authentication server in its
zone becomes unavailable.
The network configuration for this example is shown in Figure 13, and the feature decisions are
shown in Figure 14.
Figure 13: Example 5 Network
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NMS Pro
Server
NM Portal AP
Enterprise
Network
RADIUS
Server
NM Portal AP
Location A Location B