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Reading Time: 2 minutes In this article I will show how to configure the transmit power for unified AP’s via the CLI, the web GUI on the controller and from iMC WSM. I decided to write this article because it is not that intuitive to configure the transmit power for unified AP’s, but this article will make it clear. … Read more
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
Reading Time: 2 minutes In this post I will explain the MSM TFTP mode. This mode is used to upload a startup image to a MSM AP to get them working again or to convert them back from Unified Code without the help of a MSM controller. The startup images are not available publicly. You should open a case … Read more
Reading Time: 6 minutes This post will describe the process of installing your own iMC webserver certificate for the iMC webserver. We will create a certificate template for Windows Server 2008R2 and use this template for the certificate. This certificate is than exported and used as the iMC webserver certificate. Most of the information comes from the HP documentation on … Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutes This post will cover the topic of iMC license registration as I always get questions around this topic. To be able to register and activate the iMC license, you should have an account for the HPN MyNetworking portal. You can find the portal here: https://h10145.www1.hp.com/sso/index.aspx If you did not have an account register one before … Read more
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
Reading Time: 4 minutes In this post I will show, how to enhance the usage of the UAM portal authentication. This will enhance the usage for mobile endpoints and for desktop/laptop users. I add this configuration to my best practices and will encourage all of my peers to use this kind of UAM portal authentication configuration. I tested this … Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutes The new version is 7.1. Most of the modules are available with this version. There was also a switch released. The 5130 is the Comware7 version of the 5120. Yesterday, a new Version of iMC was released. The new version is version 7.1 and most of the modules are also available with this new version … Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minute In the last days, I came across a problem, where I was not able to reach the web GUI of my MSM controller. Before resetting the controller, I was looking for the config and I found a way to backup the configuration via CLI. The MSM config backup works quite easy. You just need to … Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutes Today, I would like to show the installation of the HP VSR (Virtual Service Router) on an ESXi host. It should also work for ESX. The VSR is a virtual router, running on VMWare and KVM. It will also run in VMWare player and workstation without consuming a lot of resources, which makes it ideal … Read more