Configuration for Ruckus Zonedirector

You can confirm your environment under Operator Customizations.

Before configuring your device, please be sure that you have added the Gateway to the Smart WiFi Platform and associated it with a Hotspot.
ADD GATEWAY
ADD HOSPOT

The following instructions outline how to setup a Ruckus Zonedirector  for the Marketing4WiFi Platform.  This guide covers details such as configuring RADIUS, walled garden entries, and captive portals.  This guide assumes that your Ruckus Zonedirector access points are already operational on a live network. Please make sure any firewall rules, web content filters, and other security measures have been configured to interface with the platform per the hardware manufacturers specifications.

1. Login in to your Ruckus Zonedirector

2. Click on Configure and navigate to AAA Servers

3.  Create RADIUS Authentication Server

Name: Desired Name – AUTH
Type : RADIUS
AUTH Method: PAP
Backup RADIUS: Enabled

First Server:
IP Address: Select one


Port: 1812
Shared Secret: Available in the Edit Hotspot page in the Marketing4WiFi dashboard, called RADIUS Secret in the dashboard.
Confirm Secret: as above

Second Server:
IP Address: Select one


Port: 1812
Shared Secret: Available in the Edit Hotspot page in the Marketing4WiFi dashboard, called RADIUS Secret in the dashboard.
Confirm Secret: as above

4. Create the RADIUS Accounting Server

Name: Desired Name-Acct
Type : RADIUS ACCOUNTING
Backup RADIUS: Enabled

First Server:
IP Address: Select one


Port: 1813
Shared Secret: Available in the Edit Hotspot page in the Marketing4WiFi dashboard, called RADIUS Secret in the dashboard.
Confirm Secret: as above

Second Server:
IP Address: Select one


Port: 1813
Shared Secret: Available in the Edit Hotspot page in the Marketing4WiFi dashboard, called RADIUS Secret in the dashboard.
Confirm Secret: as above

5. Configure Captive Portal

Click Configure and select Hotspot Services

Click the Create New button

Fill out the form using the information below as a guideline

1. Disable WISPr Smart Client Supprot

2. Login Page will be Select one

3. Under Start Page select the radio button “redirect to the following URL:” Select one

4. Under User Session: Set the value to above what is used in the Session Profile in the dashboard.

5. Under Authentication /Accounting Servers

Select the correct Authentication Server “RAIDUS-AUTH”
Select the correct Accounting Server “RADIUS-ACCT”

6. Under Wireless Client Isolation

Check the first radio button “Isolate wireless traffic from other clients on the same AP.”

Walled Garden: Please add all the Default walled garden entries.

If you’re a white label client and you have your own splash domain, be sure to include it in the walled garden.

7. Apply the Hotspot services to WLAN.
Under Advanced options look for Inactivity Timeout and set it to a value greater than the Idle timeout of the session profile in the dashboard.

Final Step

To complete the set of your Smart WiFi  you will need to SSH using an application like Putty to the ZoneDirector and type the commands below, one line at a time. The final step makes it so only the base AP MACs are necessary to enter into the dashboard as gateways.

enable
config
wlan "The name of your WLAN"
called-station-id-type ap-mac
end

The following instructions outline how to setup a Ruckus ZoneDirector 1200 network for the Marketing4WiFi Platform.  This guide covers details such as configuring RADIUS, walled garden entries, and captive portals.  This guide assumes that your ZoneDirector is already operational and on a live network. Please make sure any firewall rules, web content filters, and other security measures have been configured to interface with the platform.

Disclaimer on hardware configuration guides in the KB:

This equipment has been integrated and tested in our labs with the Marketing4WiFi using the firmware versions below.

ZoneDirector Version 10.0.1.0

LIMITED HARDWARE SUPPORT: Hardware manufacturers frequently make changes to firmware, controllers and GUI’s. The information below may be out of date or images may be different and is to be used as a general reference guide. We do offer additional limited support to help with trouble-shooting and we highly recommend that you have a hardware support agreement and/or access to a hardware support engineering representative from the manufacturer.

 

 

Updated on May 18, 2021

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