Configuration for Ruckus Zonedirector

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

Second Server:
IP Address: Select one

4. Create the RADIUS Accounting Server

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

First Server:
IP Address: Select one

Second Server:
IP Address: Select one

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