User's Guide
Table Of Contents
- 1 About this Guide
- Contents
- 2 Overview of the HiPath Wireless Controller, Access Points and Convergence Software solution
- 2.1 Conventional wireless LANs
- 2.2 Elements of the HiPath Wireless Controller, Access Points and Convergence Software solution
- 2.3 HiPath Wireless Controller, Access Points and Convergence Software and your network
- 2.4 HiPath Wireless Controller product family
- 3 Configuring the HiPath Wireless Controller
- 3.1 System configuration overview
- 3.2 Logging on to the HiPath Wireless Controller
- 3.3 Working with the basic installation wizard
- 3.4 Configuring the HiPath Wireless Controller for the first time
- 3.4.1 Changing the administrator password
- 3.4.2 Applying product license keys
- 3.4.3 Setting up the data ports
- 3.4.4 Setting up Internal VLAN ID and multi-cast support
- 3.4.5 Setting up static routes
- 3.4.6 Setting up OSPF Routing
- 3.4.7 Configuring filtering at the interface level
- 3.4.8 Installing certificates on the HiPath Wireless Controller
- 3.4.9 Configuring the login authentication mode
- 3.4.10 Configuring network time
- 3.4.11 Configuring DNS servers for resolving host names of RADIUS servers
- 3.5 Additional ongoing operations of the system
- 4 Configuring the Wireless AP
- 4.1 Wireless AP overview
- 4.2 Discovery and registration overview
- 4.2.1 Wireless AP discovery
- 4.2.2 Registration after discovery
- 4.2.3 Understanding the Wireless AP LED status
- 4.2.4 Configuring the Wireless APs for the first time
- 4.2.5 Defining properties for the discovery process
- 4.2.6 Connecting the Wireless AP to a power source and initiating the discovery and registration process
- 4.3 Adding and registering a Wireless AP manually
- 4.4 Configuring Wireless AP settings
- 4.4.1 Modifying a Wireless AP’s status
- 4.4.2 Configuring a Wireless AP’s properties
- 4.4.3 AP properties tab configuration
- 4.4.4 Assigning Wireless AP radios to a VNS
- 4.4.5 Configuring Wireless AP radio properties
- 4.4.6 Setting up the Wireless AP using static configuration
- 4.4.7 Configuring Telnet/SSH Access
- 4.5 Configuring VLAN tags for Wireless APs
- 4.6 Modifying a Wireless AP’s properties based on a default AP configuration
- 4.7 Modifying the Wireless AP’s default setting using the Copy to Defaults feature
- 4.8 Configuring Wireless APs simultaneously
- 4.9 Configuring an AP as a sensor
- 4.10 Performing Wireless AP software maintenance
- 5 Virtual Network Services concepts
- 6 Configuring a VNS
- 6.1 High level VNS configuration flow
- 6.2 VNS global settings
- 6.2.1 Defining RADIUS servers and MAC address format
- 6.2.2 Configuring Dynamic Authorization Server support
- 6.2.3 Defining Wireless QoS Admission Control Thresholds
- 6.2.4 Defining Wireless QoS Flexible Client Access
- 6.2.5 Working with bandwidth control profiles
- 6.2.6 Configuring the Global Default Policy
- 6.2.7 Using the Sync Summary
- 6.3 Methods for configuring a VNS
- 6.4 Working with the VNS wizard to create a new VNS
- 6.5 Working with a GuestPortal VNS
- 6.6 Creating a VNS using the advanced method
- 6.7 Working with existing VNSs
- 6.8 Configuring a Topology
- 6.9 Configuring WLAN Services
- 6.9.1 Configuring a WLAN Service
- 6.9.2 Configuring privacy
- 6.9.3 Configuring accounting and authentication
- 6.9.3.1 Vendor Specific Attributes
- 6.9.3.2 Defining accounting methods for a WLAN Service
- 6.9.3.3 Configuring authentication for a WLAN Service
- 6.9.3.4 Defining the RADIUS server priority for RADIUS redundancy
- 6.9.3.5 Configuring assigned RADIUS servers
- 6.9.3.6 Defining a WLAN Service with no authentication
- 6.9.3.7 Configuring Captive Portal for internal or external authentication
- 6.9.4 Configuring the QoS policy
- 6.10 Configuring Policy
- 6.11 Working with a Wireless Distribution System
- 6.11.1 Simple WDS configuration
- 6.11.2 Wireless Repeater configuration
- 6.11.3 Wireless Bridge configuration
- 6.11.4 Examples of deployment
- 6.11.5 WDS WLAN Services
- 6.11.6 Key features of WDS
- 6.11.7 Deploying the WDS system
- 6.11.7.1 Connecting the WDS Wireless APs to the enterprise network for discovery and registration
- 6.11.7.2 Configuring the WDS Wireless APs through the HiPath Wireless Controller
- 6.11.7.3 Assigning the Satellite Wireless APs’ radios to the network WLAN Services
- 6.11.7.4 Connecting the WDS Wireless APs to the enterprise network for provisioning
- 6.11.7.5 Moving the WDS Wireless APs to the target location
- 6.11.8 Changing the pre-shared key in a WDS WLAN Service
- 7 Availability and session availability
- 8 Configuring Mobility
- 9 Working with third-party APs
- 10 Working with the Mitigator
- 11 Working with reports and displays
- 12 Performing system administration
- 13 Glossary
- A HiPath Wireless Controller’s physical description
- B Regulatory information
- C optiPoint WL2 Configuration
- D SpectraLink Wireless Telephones
- E Default GuestPortal source code
- 2 Overview of the HiPath Wireless Controller, Access Points and Convergence Software solution
Glossary
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Networking terms and abbreviations
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CDR Call Data (Detail) Record
In Internet telephony, a call detail record is a data record that contains information related to
a telephone call, such as the origination and destination addresses of the call, the time the call
started and ended, the duration of the call, the time of day the call was made and any toll
charges that were added through the network or charges for operator services, among other
details of the call.
In essence, call accounting is a database application that processes call data from your switch
(PBX, iPBX, or key system) via a CDR (call detail record) or SMDR (station message detail
record) port. The call data record details your system's incoming and outgoing calls by
thresholds, including time of call, duration of call, dialing extension, and number dialed. Call
data is stored in a PC database
CHAP Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol. One of the two main authentication protocols
used to verify a user's name and password for PPP Internet connections. CHAP is more
secure than PAP because it performs a three-way handshake during the initial link
establishment between the home and remote machines. It can also repeat the authentication
anytime after the link has been established.
CLI Command Line Interface.
Collision Two Ethernet packets attempting to use the medium simultaneously. Ethernet is a shared
media, so there are rules for sending packets of data to avoid conflicts and protect data
integrity. When two nodes at different locations attempt to send data at the same time, a
collision will result. Segmenting the network with bridges or switches is one way of reducing
collisions in an overcrowded network.
Datagram A datagram is ”a self-contained, independent entity of data carrying sufficient information to
be routed from the source to the destination computer without reliance on earlier exchanges
between this source and destination computer and the transporting network." (RFC1594). The
term has been generally replaced by the term packet. Datagrams or packets are the message
units that the Internet Protocol deals with and that the Internet transports.
dBm
An abbreviation for the power ratio in decibels (dB) of the measured power
referenced to one milliwatt.
Decapsulation See tunnelling.
Device Server A specialized, network-based hardware device designed to perform a single or specialized set
of server functions. Print servers, terminal servers, remote access servers and network time
servers are examples of device servers.
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. A protocol for assigning dynamic IP addresses to
devices on a network. With dynamic addressing, a device can have a different IP address
every time it connects to the network. In some systems, the device's IP address can even
change while it is still connected. DHCP also supports a mix of static and dynamic IP
addresses.
DHCP consists of two components: a protocol for delivering host-specific configuration
parameters from a DHCP server to a host and a mechanism for allocation of network
addresses to hosts. (IETF RFC1531.)
Option 78 specifies the location of one or more SLP Directory Agents. Option 79 specifies the
list of scopes that a SLP Agent is configured to use.(RFC2610 - DHCP Options for Service
Location Protocol)
Term Explanation