Administrator Guide

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Captive Portal Integration
To start the visitor self-provisioning process, new visitor registration is performed by redirecting the visitor to
the URL specified on the Hotspot Preferences page; for example: https://guest.example.com/hotspot_
plan.php. The Hotspot Sign-Up page opens to the first page of the wizard, Choose Plan.
The hotspot_plan.php page accepts two parameters:
l The source parameter is the IP address of the customer.
l The destination parameter is the original URL the customer was attempting to access (that is, the
customer’s home page). This is used to automatically redirect the customer on successful completion of the
sign-up process.
For browsers without JavaScript, you may use the <noscript> tag to allow customers to sign up:
<noscript>
<a href="https://guest.example.com/ hotspot_plan.php">Hotspot Sign-Up</a>
</noscript>
However, in this situation the MAC address of the customer will not be available, and no automatic redirection
to the customer's home page will be made. You may want to recommend to your customers that JavaScript be
enabled for best results.
Web Site Look-and-Feel
The skin of a Web site is its external look and feel. It can be thought of as a container that holds the application,
its style sheet (font size and color for example), its header and footer, button style, and so on.
The default skin used by Dell Networking W-ClearPass Guest is the one that is enabled in the Plugin Manager.
The skin is seen by all users on the login page.
SMS Services
Configure the following settings in the SMS Services section of the Hotspot Preferences form to override
the default SMS settings with your own custom configuration.
l SMS Receipt: Click this drop-down list to select the template you want to use for SMS receipts. The default
value is SMS Receipt.
l Phone Number Field: Click this drop down list and identify the field that contains the visitor’s phone
number. The default value is visitor_phone.
l Auto-Send Field: Click this drop-down list and select the field which, when configured with any string or
non-zero value, will trigger the automatic sending of an SMS receipt. The default value of this field is auto_
send_sms.