The following instructions outline how to setup a WatchGuard network for the Marketing4WiFi Platform. This guide covers details such as configuring RADIUS, walled garden entries, and captive portals. This guide assumes that your WatchGuard 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.
- Log into your WatchGuard Cloud dashboard and open the Manage panel.
- Click Configuration > Device Configuration > RADIUS Profiles
- Click Add RADIUS Profile and configure with the settings below.
- Profile Name: SmartWiFi1
- IP Address:
- Authentication Port: 1812
- Accounting Port: 1813
- Shared Secret: Available in the Edit Hotspot page in the Marketing4WiFi dashboard, called RADIUS Secret in the dashboard.
- Click Add RADIUS Profile and configure with the settings below.
- Profile Name: SmartWiFi2
- IP Address:
- Authentication Port: 1812
- Accounting Port: 1813
- Shared Secret: Available in the Edit Hotspot page in the Marketing4WiFi dashboard, called RADIUS Secret in the dashboard.
- Click Add RADIUS Profile and configure with the settings below.
- Click Configuration> Device Configuration> SSID Profiles. Click Add New Wi-Fi Profile and configure to the settings below.
- WLAN Main:
- Profile Name: Smart WiFi
- SSID: Guest WiFi(Or whatever you wish)
- Broadcast SSID: Checked
- Security Tab:
- Security Mode: Open
- Client Isolation: Checked
- Captive Portal:
- Enable Captive Portal: Checked
- External Splash Page with RADIUS Authentication: Checked
- Splash Page URL:
- Shared Secret: hotspot
- Click RADIUS Settings and configure to the settings below
- NAS ID: Available in the Edit Hotspot page in the Marketing4WiFi dashboard, called SWS/Hotspot/NAS-ID.
- Primary Authentication Server: SmartWiFi1
- Secondary Authentication Server: SmartWiFi2
- Interval: 3 minutes
- Primary Accounting Server: SmartWiFi1
- Secondary Accounting Server: SmartWiFi2
- Click Save.
- Walled Garden Sites: Please add all the Default walled garden entries.
- Redirect URL:
- Service Identifier: Available in the Edit Hotspot page in the Marketing4WiFi dashboard, called SWS/Hotspot/NAS-ID.
- Click Save.
- WLAN Main:
- Click Configuration> Device Configuration> Device Templates. Edit your template and under the Radio Section add the Guest WiFi SSID you created to all radios.