Users Guide

The licensing scheme in High Capacity Guest mode supports a high volume of user traffic in the following
public-facing enterprises where the number of endpoints changes every day:
l Transportation: Airports and rail stations
l Hospitality: Hotels, casinos, and resorts
l Healthcare: Hospitals, clinics, and health centers
l Retail: Shopping malls
l Large public venues: Stadiums, convention centers, and theaters
l Restaurants and coffee shops: Quick-serve restaurants
In enterprise deployments, W-ClearPass Policy Manager licensing accumulates the unique endpoint count for
seven days, which can cause the number of licenses to exceed their limit.
To address this license limit in the public-facing enterprises environment, you can enable High Capacity Guest
mode on a cluster.
In High Capacity Guest mode, the count of unique endpoints is reset every day, instead of accumulating the
count for seven days. In High Capacity Guest mode, only you can view the supported guest authentication
methods supported in the Authentication Methods page.
RADIUS Authentication Methods That Cannot Be Enabled
When High Capacity Guest mode is enabled, you cannot enable the RADIUS services with the following
authentication methods:
l EAP-FAST
l EAP-GTC
l EAP-MSCHAPv2
l EAP-PEAP
l EAP-TLS
l EAP-TTLS
Licensing Restrictions
You can add only guest licenses to High Capacity Guest mode. This mode is intended to handle only a high
volume of guest users in PFE environments. After enabling High Capacity Guest mode, you cannot add
enterprise licenses.
If the number of licenses used exceeds the number of licenses purchased, a warning message appears four
months after the number is exceeded. The number of licenses used is based on the daily moving average.
In High Capacity Guest mode, a maximum of 2x licenses are allowed. For example, if you use the CP-HW-5K
platform (which supports 5,000 licenses), a maximum of 10,000 licenses are allowed.
Cluster Restrictions
When High Capacity Guest mode is enabled in a cluster, the following restrictions apply:
l Configuration settings cannot be moved from one cluster to another cluster that operates in High Capacity
Guest mode.
l Restoring configuration is allowed only with the backup files from servers that have High Capacity Guest
mode enabled.
l High Capacity Guest mode is intended only for high volumes of guest access.
l Use-case-related settings other than those for High Capacity Guest mode are restricted.
l OnGuard and Onboard access is restricted.
l The default cleanup interval values are reset.
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