Users Guide

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l Stateful Kerberos Authentication: use stateful Kerberos authentication to configure a controller to
monitor the Kerberos authentication messages between a client and a Windows authentication server. If
the client successfully authenticates via an Kerberos authentication server, the controller can recognize that
the client has been authenticated and assign that client a specified user role. For more information on
stateful Kerberos authentication, see Configuring Stateful Kerberos Authentication on page 290.
l Stateful 802.1X Authentication Profile: enables or disables 802.1X authentication for clients on non-
Dell APs, and defines the default role for those users once they are authenticated. This profile also
references a server group to be used for authentication. For details on configuring stateful authentication,
see Stateful and WISPr Authentication on page 287.
Mesh Profiles
You can provision Dell APs to operate as mesh points, mesh portals or remote mesh portals. The secure
enterprise mesh environment routes network traffic between APs over wireless hops to join multiple Ethernet
LANs or to extend wireless coverage. The Mesh profiles are:
l Mesh high-throughput SSID profile: enables or disables high-throughput (802.11n) features and 40
Mhz channel usage, and define values for aggregated MAC protocol data units (MDPUs) and Modulation
and Coding Scheme (MCS) ranges. If none of the APs in your Mesh deployment are 802.11n-capable, you
do not need to configure a mesh high-throughput SSID profile. For additional information on configuring
this profile, see Creating and Editing Mesh High-Throughput SSID Profiles on page 602.
l Mesh radio profile: determines many of the settings used by mesh nodes to establish mesh links and the
path to the mesh portal, including the maximum number of children a mesh node can accept, and transmit
rates for the 802.11a and 802.11g radios. For additional information on configuring this profile, see
Creating and Editing Mesh Radio Profiles on page 597.
l Mesh cluster profile: contains the mesh cluster name (MSSID), authentication methods, security
credentials, and cluster priority. For additional information on configuring this profile, see Configuring Mesh
Cluster Profiles on page 592.
QoS Profiles
The QoS profiles configure traffic management and VoIP functions.
l WMM Traffic management profile:the profile for Wi-Fi Multi-Media (WMM) traffic management
prioritizes voice and video traffic above other data traffic . For additional information on configuring this
profile, see Voice and Video on page 918.
l Traffic management profile: specifies the minimum percentage of available bandwidth to be allocated to
a specific Virtual AP when there is congestion on the wireless network, and sets the interval between
bandwidth usage reports. For additional information on configuring this profile, see Table 101.
l VoIP call admission control profile: Dell’s Voice Call Admission Control limits the number of active voice
calls per AP by load-balancing or ignoring excess call requests. This profile enables active load balancing and
call admission controls, and sets limits for the numbers of simultaneous Session Initiated Protocol (SIP),
SpectraLink Voice Priority (SVP), Cisco Skinny Client Control Protocol (SCCP), Vocera or New Office
Environment (NOE) calls that can be handled by a single radio. For additional information on configuring
this profile, see Scanning for VoIP-Aware ARM on page 966.
IDS Profiles
The IDS profiles manage settings for wireless intrusion protection (WIP) and The WLAN management system
(WMS) on the controller that monitors wireless traffic to detect any new AP or wireless client station that tries
to connect to the network. For details on IDS profile configuration settings, see
Wireless Intrusion Prevention
on page 473
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