Concept Guide

136 | Captive Portal for Guest Access Dell Networking W-Series Instant 6.5.1.0-4.3.1.0 | User Guide
Parameter Description
l To change the welcome text, click the first square box in the splash page, type
the required text in the Welcome text box, and then click OK. Ensure that the
welcome text does not exceed 127 characters.
l To change the policy text, click the second square box in the splash page, type
the required text in the Policy text box, and click OK. Ensure that the policy
text does not exceed 255 characters.
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—The Captive Portal failure drop-
down list 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 check box 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.
Table 30: Captive Portal Rule Configuration Parameters
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.