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Mode
The Mode tab in Cluster-Wide Parameters pop-up allows you to enable or disable High Capacity Guest
mode. The High Capacity Guest mode addresses the high volume licensing requirements in the Public Facing
Enterprises (PFE) environment, where a large volume of unique endpoints need wireless access.
The licensing scheme in the High Capacity Guest mode supports high volume of user traffic in the following
PFEs where the count of endpoints keep changing everyday:
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, the CPPM licensing accumulates the unique endpoint count for 7 days, which can
cause the number of licenses to exceed. To address this license limit in the PFE environment, you can enable
the High Capacity Guest mode on a cluster. In the High Capacity Guest mode, the count of unique
endpoints is reset everyday instead of accumulating the count for 7 days. In the High Capacity Guest mode,
only you can view the supported guest authentication methods such as PAP, CHAP, MSCHAP, EAP_MD5, MAC_
AUTH, AUTHORIZE, and EAP_PEAP_in the Authentication Methods page.
You cannot enable the RADIUS services with the following authentication methods when the High Capacity
Guest mode is enabled:
l EAP-FAST
l EAP-GTC
l EAP-MSCHAPv2
l EAP-PEAP
l EAP-TLS
l EAP-TTLS
Licensing
You can add only guest licenses to the High Capacity Guest mode and this mode is intended to handle only
high volume of guest users in PFE environment. After enabling the 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 the High
Capacity Guest mode, a maximum of 2x licenses are allowed. For example, if you use the CP-HW-5K platform that
supports 5k licenses, a maximum of 10k licenses are allowed in the High Capacity Guest mode.
Restrictions
When the 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 the High
Capacity Guest mode.
l Restoring configuration is allowed only with the backup files from the High Capacity Guest mode enabled
servers.
l The High Capacity Guest mode is intended only for high volumes of guest access.
l Use-case related settings other than the High Capacity Guest mode are restricted.