Creating a Guest Pass Manager

Guest Pass managers are individuals within an organization who have the authority to generate Guest Passes for visitors.

This task describes how to create a user role for a category of user that is allowed to generate and manage Guest Passes.

  1. After configuring Email and SMS settings, you will be prompted to configure a Guest Pass manager.

    Configuring a Guest Pass Operator

  2. Click OK to configure the Guest Pass manager role or click Cancel to configure these settings later. Refer to Configuring User Roles for more information.
    Note: To configure additional manager roles, select Administration > User Account > Roles > Add > Roles. To allow access to WLANs, select a specific guest WLAN checkbox and select the Guest Pass Manager option for the selected WLAN and click Add.
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    Configure the following settings to create a role for the Guest Pass Manager:
    • Name: Enter a unique name for the guest pass manager role (from 1 through 32 characters).
    • (Optional) Description: Enter a brief description for the role.
    • (Optional) Group Attributes: Used by AAA servers to authenticate the user.
    • Under Policies, select one of the following options:
      • Allow access to all WLANs: Selects all the WLANs available. (The list of available WLANs only includes unique password type guest WLANs.)
      • Specify WLAN access: Select the specific WLANs by clicking the corresponding checkbox. The Guest Pass Manager will be allowed to issue guest passes for the selected WLANs.
    • Under Administration, select Guest Pass Manager option.
    • Click Add to create the role.

    Create Guest Pass Manager - Step 1

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    On the next sidebar that appears, configure the following settings to associate a user with this Guest Pass operator role:
    • Username: Enter a user name.
    • (Optional) Full name: Enter the full name of the user.
    • Password: Enter a password. The password must be from 8 through 32 characters with at least one uppercase letter, one lowercase letter, one number and one special character, which cannot include "`" or "$(".
    • Confirm Password: Re-enter the password.
    • Role: Select the Guest Pass Manager role that you created from the drop-down list. Click the icon to edit the user role settings. To create a new role, click the + icon.

    Create Guest Pass Operator - Step 2

    The confirmation screen displays the URL where this user can create guest passes.
    Note: Users with the Guest Pass Manager role can login to https://[host_ip_address]/guestpass using the above user credentials.

    Go to Administration > User Account > Users > Add > User to create a new user (for guest pass manager) and associate the role to the user.