Users Guide

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Supporting Guest WLAN Users With the Users > Guest Users Page
AWMS supports guest user provisioning for Dell PowerConnect W and Cisco WLC devices. This allows
frontline staff such as receptionists or help desk technicians to grant wireless access to WLAN visitors or other
temporary personnel.
Perform the following steps in the pages described to configure these settings.
1. Navigate to the AMP Setup > Roles page and select the Read-Only Monitoring & Auditing role type. Under
Guest User Preferences, enable Allow creation of Guest Users.
2. Next, navigate to the AMP Setup > Users page and create a new user with the role that was just created.
Figure 131 illustrates this page.
Figure 131 AMP Setup > Users Page Illustration
3. The newly created login information should be provided to the person or people who will be responsible for
creating guest access users.
4. The next step in creating a guest access user is to navigate to the Users > Guest Users tab. From this tab, you
can add new guest users, you can edit existing users, and you can repair guest user errors.
This page displays a list of guest users and data, to include the expiration date, the SSID (for Cisco WLC) and
other information. Figure 132 illustrates this page and Table 113 describes the information.
Auth. Time Displays the how long ago the user authenticated.
NOTE: This value displays as a negative number for unauthenticated users.
Sig. Qual. Displays the average signal quality the user enjoyed.
BW Displays the average bandwidth consumed by the MAC address.
Location Displays the VisualRF QuickView box including heatmap for a device and user location history.
LAN IP Address Displays the IP assigned to the user MAC. AWMS gathers it from the association table of APs.
LAN Hostname Displays the LAN hostname of the user MAC.
Guest User Specifies whether the user is a guest.
VPN IP Address Displays the VPN IP of the user MAC. This information can be obtained from VPN servers that send RADIUS
accounting packets to AWMS.
VPN Hostname Displays the VPN hostname of the user MAC.
Table 112 Users > Connected Table Columns and Links (Continued)
Field Description
NOTE: The Guest User Preferences section on AMP Setup > Roles. as well as the Users > Guest Users subtab, will not appear if
Guest User Configuration is globally disabled in AMP Setup > General.