User's Guide

Overview of the HiPath Wireless Controller, Access Points and Convergence Software solution
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Elements of the HiPath Wireless Controller, Access Points and Convergence Software solution
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The NetSight Suite is a family of products comprised of NetSight Console and a
suite of plugin applications, including:
• Automated Security Manager – Automated Security Manager is a unique
threat response solution that translates security intelligence into security
enforcement. It provides sophisticated identification and management of
threats and vulnerabilities. For information on how the HiPath Wireless
Controller, Access Points and Convergence Software solution integrates with
the Automated Security Manager application, see the HiPath Wireless
Controller, Access Points and Convergence Software Maintenance Guide.
• Inventory Manager – Inventory Manager is a tool for efficiently documenting
and updating the details of the ever-changing network. For information on
how the HiPath Wireless Controller, Access Points and Convergence
Software solution integrates with the Automated Security Manager
application, see the HiPath Wireless Controller, Access Points and
Convergence Software Maintenance Guide.
• NAC Manager – NAC Manager is a leading-edge NAC solution to ensure
only the right users have access to the right information from the right place
at the right time. The Enterasys NAC solution performs multi-user, multi-
method authentication, vulnerability assessment and assisted remediation.
For information on how the HiPath Wireless Controller, Access Points and
Convergence Software solution integrates with the Enterasys NAC solution,
see Section 5.3, “NAC integration with HiPath WLAN”, on page 230.
• Policy Manager
Policy Manager recognizes the HiPath Wireless Controller suite as policy
capable devices that accept partial configuration from Policy Manager.
Currently this integration is partial in the sense that NetSight is unable to
create WLAN services directly; The WLAN services need to be directly
provisioned on the controller and are represented to Policy Manager as
logical ports. The HiPath Wireless Controller allows Policy Manager to:
• Attach Topologies (assign VLAN to port) to the HiPath Wireless Controller
physical ports (Console).
• Attach policy to the logical ports (WLAN Service/SSID),
• Assign a Default Role/Policy to a WLAN Service, thus creating the VNS.
• Perform authentication operations which can then reference defined
policies for station-specific policy enforcement.
This can be seen as a three step process:
1. Deploy the controller and perform local configuration
– The HiPath Wireless Controller ships with a default SSID, attached by
default to all AP radios, when enabled.