Concept Guide
Table Of Contents
- About this Guide
- About Instant
- Setting up a W-IAP
- Automatic Retrieval of Configuration
- Instant User Interface
- Initial Configuration Tasks
- Customizing W-IAP Settings
- Modifying the W-IAP Host Name
- Configuring Zone Settings on a W-IAP
- Specifying a Method for Obtaining IP Address
- Configuring External Antenna
- Configuring Radio Profiles for a W-IAP
- Configuring Uplink VLAN for a W-IAP
- Changing the W-IAP Installation Mode
- Changing USB Port Status
- Master Election and Virtual Controller
- Adding a W-IAP to the Network
- Removing a W-IAP from the Network
- VLAN Configuration
- IPv6 Support
- Wireless Network Profiles
- Configuring Wireless Network Profiles
- Configuring Fast Roaming for Wireless Clients
- Configuring Modulation Rates on a WLAN SSID
- Multi-User-MIMO
- Management Frame Protection
- Disabling Short Preamble for Wireless Client
- Editing Status of a WLAN SSID Profile
- Editing a WLAN SSID Profile
- Deleting a WLAN SSID Profile
- Wired Profiles
- Captive Portal for Guest Access
- Understanding Captive Portal
- Configuring a WLAN SSID for Guest Access
- Configuring Wired Profile for Guest Access
- Configuring Internal Captive Portal for Guest Network
- Configuring External Captive Portal for a Guest Network
- Configuring Facebook Login
- Configuring Guest Logon Role and Access Rules for Guest Users
- Configuring Captive Portal Roles for an SSID
- Configuring Walled Garden Access
- Authentication and User Management
- Managing W-IAP Users
- Supported Authentication Methods
- Supported EAP Authentication Frameworks
- Configuring Authentication Servers
- Understanding Encryption Types
- Configuring Authentication Survivability
- Configuring 802.1X Authentication for a Network Profile
- Enabling 802.1X Supplicant Support
- Configuring MAC Authentication for a Network Profile
- Configuring MAC Authentication with 802.1X Authentication
- Configuring MAC Authentication with Captive Portal Authentication
- Configuring WISPr Authentication
- Blacklisting Clients
- Uploading Certificates
- Roles and Policies
- DHCP Configuration
- Configuring Time-Based Services
- Dynamic DNS Registration
- VPN Configuration
- IAP-VPN Deployment
- Adaptive Radio Management
- Deep Packet Inspection and Application Visibility
- Voice and Video
- Services
- Configuring AirGroup
- Configuring a W-IAP for RTLS Support
- Configuring a W-IAP for Analytics and Location Engine Support
- Managing BLE Beacons
- Clarity Live
- Configuring OpenDNS Credentials
- Integrating a W-IAP with Palo Alto Networks Firewall
- Integrating a W-IAP with an XML API Interface
- CALEA Integration and Lawful Intercept Compliance
- Cluster Security
- W-IAP Management and Monitoring
- Uplink Configuration
- Intrusion Detection
- Mesh W-IAP Configuration
- Mobility and Client Management
- Spectrum Monitor
- W-IAP Maintenance
- Monitoring Devices and Logs
- Hotspot Profiles
- ClearPass Guest Setup
- IAP-VPN Deployment Scenarios
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
Parameter Description
Security
Level
l When Reauth interval is configured on an SSID performing only L3
authentication (captive portal authentication)—When reauthentication
succeeds, a pre-authentication role is assigned to the client that is in a
post-authentication role. Due to this, the clients are required to go
through captive portal to regain access.
Blacklisting
To enable blacklisting of the clients with a specific number of authentication
failures, select Enabled from the Blacklisting drop-down list and specify a
value for Max authentication failures. The users who fail to authenticate
the number of times specified in Max authentication failures are
dynamically blacklisted.
Enterprise,
Personal, and
Open security
levels.
Accounting Select any of the following options:
l To enable accounting, select Use authentication servers from the
Accounting drop-down list. On enabling the accounting function, W-IAPs
post accounting information to the RADIUS server at the specified
Accounting interval.
l To use a separate server for accounting, select Use separate servers.
The accounting server is distinguished from the authentication server
specified for the SSIDprofile.
l To disable the accounting function, select Disabled.
Enterprise,
Personal, and
Open security
levels.
Authentication
survivability
To enable authentication survivability, set Authentication survivability to
Enabled. Specify a value in hours for Cache timeout (global) to set the
duration after which the authenticated credentials in the cache must expire.
When the cache expires, the clients are required to authenticate again. You
can specify a value within a range of 1–99 hours and the default value is 24
hours.
NOTE: The authentication survivability feature requires ClearPass Policy
Manager 6.0.2 or later, and is available only when the New server option is
selected. On setting this parameter to Enabled, Instant authenticates the
previously connected clients using EAP-PEAP authentication even when
connectivity to ClearPass Policy Manager is temporarily lost. The
Authentication survivability feature is not applicable when a RADIUS server
is configured as an internal server.
Enterprise
security level
MAC
authentication
To enable MAC-address-based authentication for Personal and Open
security levels, set MAC authentication to Enabled.
For Enterprise security level, the following options are available:
l Perform MAC authentication before 802.1X—Select this check box to
use 802.1X authentication only when the MAC authentication is
successful.
l MAC authentication fail-thru—On selecting this check box, the 802.1X
authentication is attempted when the MAC authentication fails.
NOTE: If Enterprise Security level is chosen, the server used for mac
Enterprise,
Personal, and
Open security
levels.
Table 23: Configuration Parameters for WLANSecurity Settings in an Employee or Voice Network
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