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.
  1. On the menu, click Services > Hotspots & Portals > Portal Detection & Suppression to display the Portal Detection & Suppression window.

  2. Portal Detection & Suppression

  3. In the Organization tab, select the zone for which you want to create the Portal Detection.
  4. Click Create to create the Portal Detection Profile.

    Creating Portal Detection Profile

  5. Complete the following fields:
    • General Options
      • Name: Enter a policy list name.
      • Description: Enter description for the policy list.
    • Portal Detection Patterns: Select the portal detection patterns from the table or create a portal detection pattern as show below.
      1. Click Create to create Portal Detection Pattern.

        Creating Portal Detection Pattern

      2. Complete the following fields:
        • Name: Enter the name of the portal detection pattern.
        • User Agent Pattern: Enter the user agent pattern.
          Note: The user agent pattern must follow a regular expression format, starting and ending with .* (for example, .*Android-WiFi.*). The default captive portal detection may not support all the Android devices and the new Microsoft phone if different user agent patterns are used. In this case, new rules must be created to cover such patterns. Using an improper user agent pattern may impact browser behaviors.
        • HTTP Code: Enter the code.
          Note: The HTTP code range must be from 100 through 599.
        • HTTP Response Body: Eenter the HTML string.
      3. Click OK.

        Note: You can also edit, clone, and delete a Portal Detection Patterns by selecting the options Configure, Clone, and Delete respectively, from the Portal Detection Patterns tab.

  6. Click OK.
Note: To select a Portal Detection Pattern profile, Bypass CNA must be enabled in the WLAN configuration page. Use Bypass CNA to enable or disable portal detection service for HotSpot, Web Authentication, and Guest Access WLAN.
Note: You can also edit, clone, or delete a portal detection and suppression by selecting the options Configure, Clone, and Delete respectively, from the Portal Detection & Suppression window.

Note: Portal Detection and Suppression Overview. This video provides a brief overview of portal detection and suppression.

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Related information:

Video: Portal Detection and Suppression Overview
Parent topic: Working with Hotspots and Portals