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Extreme Cloud Appliance Configuration Guide

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 ExtremeCloud Appliance network for the Marketing4WiFi Platform.  This guide covers details such as configuring RADIUS, walled garden entries, and captive portals.  This guide assumes that your XCA 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 to your ExtremeCloud Appliance.
  2. On the left click Configure> Network> WLAN
  3. Click Add (Or edit the desired WLAN)
    • Network Name: Smart WiFi(or whatever you wish)
    • SSID: Guest WiFi(or whatever you wish)
    • Status: Enabled
    • Auth Type: Open
    • Enable Captive Portal: Checked
    • Captive Portal Type: External
    • ECP URL: select one
    • Click Walled Garden Rules
      • Click L3,L4 IP and Port Rules and click New
      • Please add all the Default walled garden entries using the settings action=allow, COS= None, Protocol= Any Protocol, IP/Subnet= FQDN, and Port= Any Port.
        Example:

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

    • Use HTTPS connection: Unchecked
    • Send Successful Login to: Custom URL
    • URL: select one
    • MAC-based authentication(MBA): Unchecked
    • AAA Policy: Click the + icon to create a new policy.
      1. Name: Smart WiFi
      2. Authentication Protocol: CHAP
      3. NAS ID: Available in the Edit Hotspot page in the Marketing4WiFi dashboard, called SWS/Hotspot/NAS-ID.
      4. Called Station ID: Wired MAC Colon SSID
      5. Accounting Type: Start-Interim-Stop
      6. Accounting Start: No Delay
      7. RADIUS Authentication Servers: You will need to create two
          • Server one
            1. Server Address:select one
            2. Shared Secret: Available in the Edit Hotspot page in the Marketing4WiFi dashboard, called Radius Secret.
          • Server two
            1. Server Address:select one
            2. Shared Secret: Available in the Edit Hotspot page in the Marketing4WiFi dashboard, called Radius Secret.
      8. RADIUS Accounting Servers: Use the drop down menu to select and add the RADIUS Authentication servers just created.
    • Default Auth Role: Enterprise User
    • Advanced- Check RADIUS Accounting
    • Click Save and assign the WLAN to the correct profile.

Disclaimer on hardware configuration guides in the KB:

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

04.76.02

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 14, 2021

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