Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell PowerConnect ArubaOS 5.0
- Contents
- About this Guide
- The Basic User-Centric Networks
- Configuring the User-Centric Network
- Deployment and Configuration Tasks
- Configuring the Controller
- Configuring a VLAN for Network Connection
- Deploying APs
- Additional Configuration
- Network Parameters
- Configuring VLANs
- Configuring Ports
- About VLAN Assignments
- Assigning a Static Address to a VLAN
- Using CLI
- Configuring a VLAN to Receive a Dynamic Address
- Enabling the DHCP Client
- Enabling the PPPoE Client
- Default Gateway from DHCP/PPPoE
- Configuring DNS/WINS Server from DHPC/PPPoE
- Using the WebUI
- Configuring Source NAT to Dynamic VLAN Address
- Configuring Source NAT for VLAN Interfaces
- Inter-VLAN Routing
- Configuring Static Routes
- Configuring the Loopback IP Address
- Configuring the Controller IP Address
- Configuring GRE Tunnels
- RF Plan
- Supported Planning
- Before You Begin
- Launching the RF Plan
- Using the FQLN Mapper in the AP Provision Page
- RF Plan Example
- Sample Building
- Create a Building
- Model the Access Points
- Model the Air Monitors
- Add and Edit a Floor
- Adding the background image and naming the first floor
- Adding the background image and naming the second floor
- Defining Areas
- Creating a Don’t Care Area
- Creating a Don’t Deploy Area
- Running the AP Plan
- Running the AM Plan
- Access Points
- Remote AP vs Campus AP
- Basic Configuration
- AP Names and Groups
- Virtual APs
- Configuring Profiles
- Profile Hierarchy
- Virtual AP Configurations
- Configuring High-throughput on Virtual APs
- Advanced Configuration Options
- Automatic Channel and Transmit Power Selection Using ARM
- APs Over Low-Speed Links
- AP Redundancy
- AP Maintenance Mode
- Managing AP LEDs
- Adaptive Radio Management (ARM)
- Remote Access Points
- Overview
- Configuring the Secure Remote Access Point Service
- Deploying a Branch Office/Home Office Solution
- Enabling Double Encryption
- Advanced Configuration Options
- Understanding Remote AP Modes of Operation
- Fallback Mode
- Configuring the fallback mode
- Configuring the DHCP Server on the Remote AP
- Advanced Backup Configuration Options
- DNS Controller Setting
- Backup Controller List
- Remote AP Failback
- RAP Local Network Access
- Remote AP Authorization Profiles
- Access Control Lists and Firewall Policies
- Split Tunneling
- Configuring the Session ACL
- Configuring ACL for restricted LD homepage access
- Configuring the AAA Profile and the Virtual AP Profile
- Wi-Fi Multimedia
- Uplink Bandwidth Reservation
- Secure Enterprise Mesh
- Mesh Access Points
- Mesh Links
- Mesh Profiles
- Mesh Solutions
- Before You Begin
- Mesh Radio Profiles
- RF Management (802.11a and 802.11g) Profiles
- Mesh High-Throughput SSID Profiles
- Mesh Cluster Profiles
- Ethernet Ports for Mesh
- Provisioning Mesh Nodes
- AP Boot Sequence
- Verifying the Network
- Remote Mesh Portals
- Authentication Servers
- Important Points to Remember
- Servers and Server Groups
- Configuring Servers
- Internal Database
- Server Groups
- Assigning Server Groups
- Configuring Authentication Timers
- 802.1x Authentication
- Overview of 802.1x Authentication
- Configuring 802.1x Authentication
- Example Configurations
- Authentication with an 802.1x RADIUS Server
- Configuring Roles and Policies
- Configuring the RADIUS Authentication Server
- Configure 802.1x Authentication
- Configure VLANs
- Configuring the WLANs
- Configuring the Guest WLAN
- Configuring the Non-Guest WLANs
- Authentication with the Controller’s Internal Database
- Configuring the Internal Database
- Configure 802.1x Authentication
- Configure VLANs
- Configuring the WLANs
- Configuring the Guest WLAN
- Configuring the Non-Guest WLANs
- Advanced Configuration Options for 802.1x
- Roles and Policies
- Stateful and WISPr Authentication
- Captive Portal
- Captive Portal Overview
- Captive Portal in the Base ArubaOS
- Captive Portal with the PEFNG License
- Example Authentication with Captive Portal
- Creating a Guest-logon User Role
- Creating an Auth-guest User Role
- Configure Policies and Roles via the WebUI
- Time Range
- Auth-Guest-Access Policy
- Block-Internal-Access Policy
- Drop-and-Log Policy
- Guest-logon Role
- Guest-Logon Role
- Configure Policies and Roles via the CLI
- Time Range
- Create Aliases
- Guest-Logon-Access Policy
- Auth-Guest-Access Policy
- Block-Internal-Access Policy
- Drop-and-Log Policy
- Guest-Logon Role
- Auth-Guest Role
- Guest VLANs
- Captive Portal Authentication
- Optional Captive Portal Configurations
- Personalizing the Captive Portal Page
- Securing Client Traffic
- Securing Controller-to-Controller Communication
- Configuring the Odyssey Client on Client Machines
- Advanced Security
- Virtual Intranet Access
- VIA
- Configuring the VIA Controller
- VPN Configuration
- Remote Access VPN for L2TP IPsec
- Remote Access VPNs for XAuth
- Remote Access VPN for PPTP
- Site-to-Site VPNs
- Dell Dialer
- Virtual Private Networks
- MAC-based Authentication
- Control Plane Security
- Control Plane Security Overview
- Configuring Control Plane Security
- Whitelists on Master and Local Controllers
- Environments with Multiple Master Controllers
- Replacing a Controller on a Multi-Controller Network
- Troubleshooting Control Plane Security
- Adding Local Controllers
- IP Mobility
- VRRP
- RSTP
- W-600 Series Controller
- OSPFv2
- Wireless Intrusion Prevention
- IDS Features
- IDS Configuration
- WLAN Management System
- Client Blacklisting
- Link Aggregation Control Protocol
- Management Access
- Certificate Authentication for WebUI Access
- Public Key Authentication for SSH Access
- Radius Server Authentication
- Radius Server Username/Password Authentication
- RADIUS Server Authentication with VSA
- RADIUS Server Authentication with Server-Derivation Rule
- Disabling Authentication of Local Management User Accounts
- Verifying the configuration
- Resetting the Admin or Enable Password
- Setting an Administrator Session Timeout
- Management Password Policy
- Managed RFprotect Sensors
- Managing Certificates
- Configuring SNMP
- Configuring Logging
- Guest Provisioning
- Managing Files on the Controller
- Setting the System Clock
- Software Licenses
- IPv6 Client Support
- Voice and Video
- License Requirements
- Configuring Voice
- Configuring Video
- QoS
- External Services Interface
- Understanding ESI
- Understanding the ESI Syslog Parser
- ESI Configuration Overview
- Configuring Health-Check Method, Groups, and Servers
- Defining the ESI Server
- Defining the ESI Server Group
- Redirection Policies and User Role
- ESI Syslog Parser Domains and Rules
- Managing Syslog Parser Domains in the WebUI
- Managing Syslog Parser Domains in the CLI
- Managing Syslog Parser Rules
- Monitoring Syslog Parser Statistics
- Example Route-mode ESI Topology
- ESI server configuration on controller
- IP routing configuration on Fortinet gateway
- Configuring the Example Routed ESI Topology
- Health-Check Method, Groups, and Servers
- Defining the Ping Health-Check Method
- Defining the ESI Server
- Defining the ESI Server Group
- Redirection Policies and User Role
- Syslog Parser Domain and Rules
- Example NAT-mode ESI Topology
- Basic Regular Expression Syntax
- DHCP with Vendor-Specific Options
- External Firewall Configuration
- Behavior and Defaults
- 802.1x Configuration for IAS and Windows Clients
- Internal Captive Portal
- VIA End User Instructions
- Provisioning RAP at Home
- Index
570 | External Services Interface Dell PowerConnect ArubaOS 5.0 | [User Guide
Figure 120 ESI-Fortinet Topology
In the topology in , the clients connect to access points (both wireless and wired). The wired access points tunnel
all traffic back to the controller over the existing network.
The controller receives the traffic and redirects relevant traffic (including but not limited to all HTTP/HTTPS
and email protocols such as SMTP and POP3) to the AVF server device to provide services such as anti-virus
scanning, email scanning, web content inspection, etc. This traffic is redirected on the “untrusted” interface
between the controller and the AVF server device. The controller also redirects the traffic intended for the
clients—coming from either the Internet or the internal network. This traffic is redirected on the “trusted”
interface between the controller and the AVF server device. The controller forwards all other traffic (for which the
AVF server does not perform any of the required operations such as AV scanning). An example of such traffic
would be database traffic running from a client to an internal server.
The controller can also be configured to redirect traffic only from clients in a particular role such as “guest” or
“non-remediated client” to the AVF server device. This might be done to reduce the load on the AVF server
device if there is a different mechanism such as the Dell-Sygate integrated solution to enforce client policies on
the clients that are under the control of the IT department. These policies can be used to ensure that an anti-
virus agent runs on the clients and the client can get access to the network only if this agent reports a “healthy”
status for the client. Refer to the paper (available from Sygate) on Sygate integrated solutions for more details on
this solution.
The controller is also capable of load balancing between multiple external server appliances. This provides more
scalability as well as redundancy by using multiple external server appliances. Also, the controller can be
configured to have multiple groups of external server devices and different kinds of traffic can be redirected to
different groups of devices—with load balancing occurring within each group (see Figure 121 for an example).
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