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Reading Time: 6 minutes Today I would like to describe the UAM portal functionality. I will show it in combination with the unified controller, which still has the configuration from my last two how to’s for the unified controller. It would be very helpful for your understanding, reading those two posts: How To: Captive Portal With Local Authentication on … Read more
Reading Time: 7 minutes In this post, I will describe the captive portal capabilities on the HP unified controller, using iMC and UAM for remote authentication. Please read my earlier post about captive portal and local authentication, as I will reuse most of the configuration. For this howto I use again the latest and greatest firmware: Prepare the Controller for Captive Portal … Read more
Reading Time: 8 minutes In this post I will describe the setup of a captive portal authentication with local authentication, which means, that the accounts will be created on the controller itself. No additional software or tool’s are required. This will fit for small environments but also has its limitations. For this test, I used the latest available firmware, which … Read more
Reading Time: 9 minutes In this post I will share my experience with controller discovery in the network. You will get many information on how the AP can discover the controller and what network requirements needs to be meet to do that. I will cover the following topics: Where to place the AP’s in the network How the discovery process … Read more
Reading Time: 5 minutes In this post, I will share my MSM best practice tips, when using the controller. This is not a complete list but all the stuff I do first. From time to time I will update the post or create a complete new one, to stay up to date.So, let’s start now: 1. Which firmware to … Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutes In Mai, I was on a proof of concept in Grenoble and one of the coolest things was the Private VLAN function in Comware 7. It was really interesting to see how it works and how simple it is to separate hosts from each other.It works with a two-tier approach. There is a primary VLAN, … Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutes In the old days, many people where using the Guest Management Tool or GMS together with the MSM Controller. This tool was a great piece of software to have a very simple way to create and manage guest accounts on MSM controller. For some larger companies, this tool was too simple. And for an environment … Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutes Before I start with my post, I need to say sorry, as I missed my post in Mai due to heavy work load and three week abroad for a proof of concept with a customer. I simply couldn’t make it to write my post. My plan is to write two posts this month, to be … Read more
Reading Time: 9 minutes This is the third and last post in this series. I will now show how I configured the IMC (Intelligent Management Center) with UAM (User Access Manager) to get all the magic working. In this post I will describe how to configure the following points: enable the BYOD functionality in UAM setup the Guest functionality … Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutes This is the second post in a series of posts to the topic of BYOD. This time I will describe the configuration of my Unified WLAN controller, which replaced my MSM controller. I still have my MSM controller in place, but I need to get familiar with the Unified Controllers. As in the first posts, I … Read more