Working with Guest Passes

Guest passes are temporary privileges granted to guests to allow access your wireless LANs.

Unleashed provides many options for customizing guest passes, controlling who is allowed to issue guest passes, and controlling the scope of access to be granted.

With Guest Pass authentication enabled, guests are required to enter a guest pass code when connecting to a guest WLAN. Temporary guest passes can be issued for single users, multiple users, one-time login, time-limited multiple logins for a single guest user, or can be configured so that a single guest pass can be shared by multiple users. Additionally, they can be batch generated if many short-term guest passes need to be created at once.

Guest passes can be delivered in any of the following ways:

  • Printout
  • Send SMS with guest credentials
  • Send email with guest credentials
Note: To enable guest pass delivery via email or SMS, you must first configure an email server or an SMS delivery account (Twilio or Clickatell) from the Email tab or the SMS tab.

In this section:

  1. Generating a Guest Pass
    Using the Guest Access Service > Admin Generated Guest Passes page, Unleashed administrators can create guest passes from within the UI.
  2. Guest Pass Self-Service
    The Guest Pass Self-Service feature allows guests to your organization to self-activate their devices to access your guest WLANs.
  3. Controlling Guest Pass Generation Privileges
    By default, guest pass generation privileges are given to all authenticated users in the Default user role.
  4. Generating and Delivering a Single Guest Pass
  5. Generating and Printing Multiple Guest Passes at Once
  6. Creating a Guest Pass Profile
  7. Monitoring Generated Guest Passes
    Once you have generated guest passes for your visitors, you can monitor and, if necessary, delete them to revoke the guests' access privileges.
  8. Creating a Custom Guest Pass Printout
    The guest pass printout is a printable HTML page that contains instructions for the guest pass user on how to connect to the wireless network.
  9. Customizing the Guest Pass Email Content
    The Unleashed guest pass email content can be customized to suit your preferences.
  10. Customizing the Guest Pass SMS Content
    The Unleashed guest pass SMS content can be customized to suit your preferences.
Parent topic: Guest WLANs