Concept Guide

Field Description
l Specify the URL to which you want to redirect the guest users.
l To upload a custom logo, click Upload your own custom logo Image,
browse the image file, and click upload image.
l To preview the captive portal page, click Preview.
External
If External is selected, perform the following steps:
l Select a profile from the Captive portal profile drop-down list.
l If you want to edit the profile, click Edit and update the following parameters:
l Type—Select either Radius Authentication (to enable user
authentication against a RADIUS server) or Authentication
Text (to specify the authentication text to be returned by the
external server after a successful user authentication).
l IP or hostname— Enter the IP address or the host name of the
external splash page server.
l URL— Enter the URL for the external splash page server.
l Port—Enter the port number.
l Redirect URL—Specify a redirect URL if you want to redirect
the users to another URL.
l Captive Portal failure—This field allows you to configure
Internet access for the guest clients when the external captive
portal server is not available. Select Deny Internet to prevent
clients from using the network, or Allow Internet to allow the
guest clients to access Internet when the external captive portal
server is not available.
l Automatic URL Whitelisting— Select Enabled or Disabled to
enable or disable automatic whitelisting of URLs. On selecting
the checkbox for the external captive portal authentication, the
URLs allowed for the unauthenticated users to access are
automatically whitelisted. The automatic URL whitelisting is
disabled by default.
l Auth Text—Indicates the authentication text returned by the
external server after a successful user authentication.
6. Click OK. The enforce captive portal rule is created and listed as an access rule.
7. Create a role assignment rule based on the user role, to which the captive portal access rule is assigned.
8. Click Finish.
The client can connect to this SSID after authenticating with username and password. After a successful user
login, the captive portal role is assigned to the client.
In the CLI
To create a captive portal role:
(Instant AP)(config)# wlan access-rule <Name>
(Instant AP)(Access Rule <Name>)# captive-portal {external [profile <name>]|internal}
(Instant AP)(Access Rule <Name>)# end
(Instant AP)# commit apply
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