Working with Hotspots and Portals

In this section:

  1. Creating a Guest Access Portal
    Using the controller's Guest Access features, you can provide visitors to your organization limited access to a guest WLAN with configurable guest policies. The following sections describe how to configure guest WLANs and access policies that control guest use of your network.
    Note to Author: This topic is reused in the SZ100 and SCG200/SZ300 Admin Guides for R3.5. ANY CHANGE MADE TO THIS TOPIC IN ONE GUIDE, WILL REFLECT IN THE OTHER DUE TO REUSE. Please modify content carefully, and as appropriate. Only use DITA val condition "SZ100" and "SCG200" to ensure the right information is generated in the final PDF. If a content or topic ONLY applies to SZ300, do not apply the SZ300 DITA val, instead, call-out the platform/controller name. For e.g., For SZ300 controllers, RADIUS authentication is not supported.
  2. Working with Hotspot (WISPr) Services
    A hotspot is a venue or area that provides Internet access to devices with wireless networking capability such as notebooks and smart phones.
  3. Working with Hotspot 2.0 Services
    You must be aware of Hotspot 2.0 - a Wi-Fi Alliance specification that allows for automated roaming between service provider access points when both the client and access gateway support the newer protocol.
  4. Creating a Web Authentication Portal
    Web Authentication (also known as a “captive portal”) redirects users to a login web page the first time they connect to this WLAN, and requires them to log in before granting access to use the WLAN.
  5. Creating a UA Blacklist Profile
    The controller automatically blocks certain user agents (or software used by a user) from accessing hotspots provided by controller-managed APs. When the controller blocks any of these user agents, an error message appears on the user device. You can add to or remove user agents from this blacklist.
  6. Creating a Portal Detection and Suppression Profile
    To restrict an unauthorized user in a walled garden, a service operator must set defined policy rules by creating a portal detection and suppression profile.
  7. Creating a WeChat Portal
    WeChat is a mobile app from Tenecent that enables its users to call and send text messages to one another. If you have WeChat users on the network and you want your WLANs to support WeChat services, you can create a WeChat portal that WeChat users can use.
  8. Creating Network Segmentation Profile on the vSZ Controller
    Network Segmentation was designed specifically to target Multi Dwelling Unit (MDU) deployments. Network Segmentation is currently using external Dynamic Pre-shared Key (DPSK) to place a single tenant and their devices into their own individual VXLAN (iLAN).
  9. Ethernet Profiles
Parent topic: Access and Security