You can confirm your environment under Operator Customizations.
Before configuring your device, please be sure that you have added the Gateway to the Marketing4WiFi and associated it with a Hotspot.
ADD GATEWAY
ADD HOSPOT
This document lays out the process for interfacing an Aruba controller, running at least version 8.6 with the Marketing4WiFi . This document does not review the process for setting up an Aruba controller out of the box.
- Login to desired Aruba controller network
- Click on Configuration
Click on WLANs in the menu to the left
- Create new WLAN by pressing the blue + button and configure with:
- Name(SSID): Smart WiFi (Or your choice)
- Primary Usage: Guest
- Forwarding Mode: Tunnel
- Click next and configure with:
- VLAN: 1 (or whatever you need)
- Click next and configure with:
- Captive Portal Type: ClearPass or other external Captive Portal
- Host Addressing: IPv4
- Host: Select one
- Page: /hotspotlogin.php
- Redirect URL: Select one
- Under auth servers click the blue + to create a new auth server and configure with:
- Server Type: RADIUS
- Name: Radius1
- IP Address:
- Auth Port: 1812
- Accounting Port: 1813
- Shared Key: Available in the Edit Hotspot page in the Marketing4WiFi dashboard, called RADIUS Secret in the dashboard.
- Retype Key: Same as above.
- Timeout: 5
- Click the blue + under auth servers to create another auth server and configure with:
- Server Type: RADIUS
- Name: Radius2
- IP Address:
- Auth Port: 1812
- Accounting Port: 1813
- Shared Key: Available in the Edit Hotspot page in the Marketing4WiFi dashboard, called RADIUS Secret in the dashboard.
- Retype Key: Same as above.
- Timeout: 5
- Press next and then finish
- Click pending changes and deploy the changes
Click on Roles & Policies in the menu to the left
- Click the Aliases tab
- Edit the alias created from deploying the WLAN(It will use the wlan name)
- Add the default wildcard walled garden entries
Click the Authentication in the menu to the left
- On the Auth Servers tab, click the server group created from deploying the WLAN(It will use the SSID name)
- Edit Radius1
- NASID: Available in the Edit Hotspot page in the Marketing4WiFi dashboard, called SWS/Hotspot/NAS-ID.
- Press submit
- Edit Radius2
- NASID: Available in the Edit Hotspot page in the Marketing4WiFi dashboard, called SWS/Hotspot/NAS-ID.
- Press submit
- Edit Radius1
Click the AAA Profiles tab
- Expand the AAA menu
- Click on the one created from deploying the WLAN
- Click RADIUS Accounting Server Group
- Select the server group created from deploying the WLAN
- Press submit
Click the L3 Authentication tab
- Open the ‘Captive Portal Authentication’ menu
- Click on the one for the WLAN created and configure with:
- Default Role: Guest
- Default Guest Role: Guest
- Redirect Pause: 0
- User Login: Enabled
- Guest Login: Disabled
- Logout popup window: Disabled
- Use HTTP for authentication: Enabled
- Login minimum wait: 1
- Logon maximum wait: 10
- Authentication Protocol: PAP
- Login Page:
- Welcome Page: default
- Show Welcome Page: disabled
- Add Switch IP in redirection URL: disabled
- Adding APs MAC address in redirection URL: Enabled
- White List: Select the policy edited in step 5
- Redirect URL: Select one
- Submit
- On the Auth Servers tab, click the server group created from deploying the WLAN(It will use the SSID name)
- Click pending changes and deploy the changes
Disclaimer on hardware configuration guides in the KB:This equipment has been integrated and tested in our labs with the Marketing4WiFi platform using the firmware versions below.
ArubaOS 8.6
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.