External Portal Server

Procedure

• Set the maximum number of Portal authentication users.
  1. Choose Configuration > Security Services > AAA and click the External Portal Server tab.

  2. Set the maximum number of concurrent Portal authentication users in Maximum number of STAs.
  3. Click Apply. In the dialog box that is displayed, click OK.
• Create a Portal authentication server.
  1. Choose Configuration > Security Services > AAA and click the External Portal Server tab.
  2. Click Create. The Create Authentication Server page is displayed.
     Table 1 describes the parameters on the page.

     Table 1 Parameters for creating a Portal authentication server

     Parameter	Description
     Server name	Indicates the name of a Portal authentication server.
     Server IP	Indicates the IP address of the Portal server.
     Shared key	Indicates the shared key that the device uses to exchange information with the Portal server.
     Confirm shared key	Enter the shared key again.
     Source IP	Indicates the source IP address for the device to communicate with a Portal server.
     Packet port number	Indicates the port number that the device uses to listen on Portal protocol packets.
     URL	Indicates the URL of the Portal server.
     URL profile The following parameters are valid when URL profile is selected.
     URL	Indicates the redirection URL or pushed URL
     LSW-IP	Indicates the IP address of the switch carried in the URL.
     LSW-MAC	Indicates the MAC address of the switch carried in the URL.
     User access URL	Indicates the original URL that a user accesses carried in the URL.
     User MAC	Indicates the user MAC address carried in the URL.
     User IP	Indicates the user IP address carried in the URL.
     System name	Indicates the device system name carried in the URL.
     AP-IP	Indicates the AP IP address carried in the URL.
     AP-MAC	Indicates the AP MAC address carried in the URL.
     SSID	Indicates the SSID that users associate with.
     MAC address format	No separator normal: sets the MAC address format to XXXX-XXXX-XXXX. You can specify a character as the delimiter. compact: sets the MAC address format to XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX. You can specify a character as the delimiter.
     Separator	Indicates the separator, which contains one character.

  3. Set parameters for authentication server.
  4. Click OK.
• Modify a Portal authentication server.
  1. Choose Configuration > Security Services > AAA and click the External Portal Server tab.
  2. Click the name of the authentication server that you want to modify. The authentication server modification page is displayed.
  3. Modify parameters for authentication server. Table 1 describes the parameters for modifying an authentication server.
  4. Click OK.
• Delete an authentication server.
  1. Choose Configuration > Security Services > AAA and click the External Portal Server tab.
  2. Select the authentication server name and click Delete. The system asks you whether to delete the record.
     NOTE:

     • To select a record, click the checkbox of the record.
     • To delete records in batches, click the checkboxes of records.

  3. Click OK.