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.
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