Firetide 4200-1 Hotpoint 4200 Access Point, FWB-102 and FWB-105 User Manual Part 2

Firetide Inc. Hotpoint 4200 Access Point, FWB-102 and FWB-105 Part 2

User Manual Part 2

24 HotPoint FWC 2050 & Access Point User Guide February 2011ProlesProles are the basic building blocks of HotPoint AP congurations. They represent the settings of a virtual machine that can be in-stantiated on any HotPoint unit. Proles are a set of conguration that can be applied onto an AP. These congurations include radio parameters, load balancing and rate limit parameters. Each access point under the control of the FWC2050 is capable of supporting 8 proles per radio, or 16 proles in total.Small NetworksFor small scale WLAN networks, you can use the basic conguration, and you don’t need to create additional prole groups. All APs will belong to the same group and have the same conguration. Larger NetworksFor larger deployments, comprised of different sets of WLAN networks, you will need to use the advanced prole option. Under the Advanced proles tab, you can create, edit, and delete prole groups. Editing a prole group will take the user to a prole edit page similar to the one under basic setting. The Delete button, at the bottom of the screen, will delete the selected prole.Once the creation of the proles are done, you can go to the Conguration->WLAN Network page to assign prole groups to the APs.For ease of use, during a prole add, an option is given to the user to clone a prole. Cloning of a prole copies all the settings except the name and SSID. Conguration templates for Authentication Server Settings in case of LDAP/Radius and MAC ACL list conguration needs to be done separately in their respective pages under Security. Once done, you can assign one of the created security proles to a particular prole.Prole GroupsComplex deployments may require multiple sets of proles. Groups are a way of managing large numbers of proles. The controller sup-ports conguration of up to 8 distinct set of grouped proles. Each prole group can contain up to 16 proles. You can congure these proles and prole groups without worrying about the state of the APs. Once the APs connect to the controller these prole congura-tion will be pushed onto the AP. This is the method used to congure the WLAN network ofine and then push the conguration once the WLAN network is up and running.Two groups are dened by default. Additional groups can be created by clicking on the + tab next to the groups, in the Conguration - Prole - Advanced - Radio section, as shown below.
Firetide - Reliable Connectivity Anywhere 25 February 2011Basic and Advanced - RadioSettings for Basic and Advanced are similar, except that the Advanced option allows you to congure settings per Group.Name: Displays user-assigned name of prole. SSID: Displays the SSID of access point. Broadcast SSID: Enables broadcasting of the SSID in the clear.Network Authentication: Displays type of authentication required.Data Encryption: Displays encryption type.Wireless Client Security Separation: Controls security among clients connected to AP.VLAN: Species VLAN for trafc to/from this Prole.MAC ACL Group: Denes MAC address Access Control List preferences.Captive Portal: Denes which, if any, captive portals are being managed.Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM): Enables WMM mode. Select this option to ensure that applications that require better throughput and performance are provided special queues with higher priority. WMM denes the following four queues in decreasing order of priority:Voice: The highest priority queue, minimum delay; ideal for VOIP and streaming media.Video: The second highest priority queue, low delay. Video applications are routed to this queue.Best Effort: The medium priority queue, medium delay. Most IP applications use this queue.Background: Low priority queue with high throughput. Applications which are not time-sensitive but require high throughput can use this queue.With WMM enabled, QoS prioritization and coordination of wireless access is on. Disabling WMM will deactivate QoS control of station EDCA parameters on upstream trafc owing from the station to the access point.WMM Powersave: Enables Powersave option for WMM.
26 HotPoint FWC 2050 & Access Point User Guide February 2011Load BalancingorMax Client: The maximum number of clients the that can connect to this prole.RSSI: Denes the weakest signal that the APs in this prole will accept.The controller supports balancing of load on the APs it manages. This is based on the number of clients connected to APs as well as signal quality of clients. At the time a client discovers APs (using probe requests) or sends association frames, AP de-cides whether to accept a client or not based on the number of clients already connected or the signal strength of the clients.The two congurations are:Max Clients: The maximum number of wireless clients that can connect to each radio of Access Point at one time. A value of 64 can be selected to specify to allow maximum supported by Access Point.RSSI: The minimum signal quality in percentage (0 - 100) % expected from the wireless clients that connect to the Access Points. A value of 0 means this check is not enforced and load balancing is disabled.Setting the Max. number of clients to a low value (compared to the total number of client in an ofce/oor) is recommended when there are several APs and the administrator would like a good distribution of clients between the access points.Setting the RSSI to a high percentage would mean that only clients near to APs will be permitted to associate to the APs and is good in situation where the throughput expectation is high. In scenarios, where the clients can be expected to be far away (or the number of APs is less), this should be set to a lower value.
Firetide - Reliable Connectivity Anywhere 27 February 2011Basic and Advanced - Rate LimitingThe Rate Limiting feature can be congured differently for each BSSID in security prole group. Rate limiting is done per BSSID and is congured as a percentage of available bandwidth. Available bandwidth is determined by the number of errors occurring during transmission and the amount of time a packet spends in the transmission queue. The available bandwidth is distributed among the BSSIDs congured on the Access Points as a specied percentage. The per-centage congured for a BSSID is shared among all the clients connected to it. The total of the percentages distributed among the BSSIDs can be up to 100%. Rate Limiting can be disabled by setting the limit to 0%. This can be useful for having BSSIDs for management/administration/testing. Rate Limit: The slider bar and value specify congured rate limit values.
28 HotPoint FWC 2050 & Access Point User Guide February 2011WLAN NetworkThis screen allows you to assign each AP to a group.or
Firetide - Reliable Connectivity Anywhere 29 February 2011Captive PortalThe Captive Portal allows you to require the user to log in, and optionally accept a EULA, in order to use the wireless service. Portal Type: Portals can be guest (open to all) or require an ID and password. In Guest mode, the user must enter an email address to gain access. In Captive mode, the user must enter a user name and pass-word. These values are dened as shown in “Maintenance” on page 35.Select Placement: Allows you to position the login in a location compatible with the background image.Load Background Image: Allows you to place an image with logos, etc as required for your application.EULA Text Required: You can optionally require a EULA. Enter the EULA text in place of the ‘test’ text, and tick the en-able box.

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