ClearPass Guest Access with Username only

ClearPass - Username Only Captive Portal

Reading Time: 17 minutes In the past, I saw a lot of guest workflows which either did a very overloaded username and password authentication to fully authenticate the guest or the simple “Just Accept the Ts and Cs”. The first one is very complex for the guest but gives you the option to see who is online and controls … Read more

Wired Guest Access with Aruba Wireless Gear

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Reading Time: 6 minutes This is maybe an uncommon scenario but I was asked to write something about this topic. Let’s assume you have Aruba Wireless Gear but your switching stuff is not from Aruba. In this post, I will show how to configure Aruba Controllers or Aruba IAPs to provide Guest Access to wired users as well. I … Read more

ClearPass Sponsored Guest Login

ClearPass Sponsored Guest Login - Guest Caching Wizard

Reading Time: 10 minutes This post describes how to set up a self-registration guest login page with sponsor approval. I use this ClearPass sponsored guest login at home for all my guests. Actually, my wife had the idea to use this kind of setup. The solution will be very easy but you will get a good overview of how … Read more

IAP VPN Guest Solution With Captive Portal

Reading Time: 7 minutes After my last post about an IAP VPN, I’ve got a lot of questions regarding an IAP VPN guest solution, either with or without a captive portal. This post is all about an IAP VPN guest solution. I use a controller as the VPN concentrator and for the captive portal. You can use ClearPass for the … Read more

Captive Portal without PEFNG License on ArubaOS8

Reading Time: 6 minutes On a regular basis, I get the question on how to configure a wireless captive portal without the PEFNG license on the controller. This post is to address this and to show how you can use a wireless captive portal without PEFNG license. Notice, I always recommend using PEFNG license. Not to use PEFNG should … Read more

Wired Guest Access with IAP – Aruba Instant

Reading Time: 5 minutes Have you ever heard of someone asking for wired guest access? Why should you use wired guest access, when WLAN is available? For those, who need this kind of guest access, the following post is very interesting. I can think of the following scenarios, where you could need wired guest access: You have a WLAN … Read more

Aruba Instant – External Captive Portal Enhancement

Reading Time: 4 minutes In my last post, I described a simple way, to use the an external captive portal with the Aruba Instant solution. This time, I will change the lab environment to support bridged clients. I will also cover the scenario with the internal dhcp server and the situation with an individual certificate. External Captive Portal in Bridged … Read more

Aruba Instant with External Captive Portal

Reading Time: 7 minutes This time, I write about the scenario, using Aruba Instant with external captive portal. With external portal, I did not mean ClearPass. It can be a simple web server, with a simple web page, hosing the captive portal. I show, how to send back the information to Instant AP and get the user online. How … Read more

iMC UAM Page Push Policy

Reading Time: 3 minutes In this post I will explain the new UAM page push policy in iMC, which was introduced with the  update to iMC 7.1. The UAM page push policy will make it easier to select the webpage which should be used for the authentication. The UAM page push policy will replace the portal selection in the … Read more

HowTo: MSM with UAM Captive Portal

Reading Time: 5 minutes This time I would like to show, how to use the UAM captive portal with the MSM solution. As the MSM solution did not support the portal protocol, which is used to transfer all the necessary information from the UAM captive portal server to the access device, we have to use at least one Comware … Read more