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Chapter 1
About W-ClearPass
This chapter provides an overview of the W-ClearPass Policy Manager Access Management System.
This chapter includes the following information:
l About This Guide
l About the W-ClearPass Access Management System
l Setting Up the W-ClearPass Hardware Appliances
l Using the VMware vSphere Web Client to Install W-ClearPass on a Virtual Machine
l Using Microsoft Hyper-V to Install W-ClearPass on a Virtual Appliance
l Maintaining W-ClearPass Policy Manager Services
About This Guide
Welcome to the W-ClearPass 6.6 Deployment Guide.
The W-ClearPass 6.6 Deployment Guide is intended to assist field System Engineers and network administrators,
as well as customers and partners, in deploying W-ClearPass Policy Manager.
This guide is organized in a way that presents the recommended sequence in which W-ClearPass deployment
should take place, and makes the major deployment tasks easy to understand and implement.
The W-ClearPass 6.6 Deployment Guide includes the following information:
l Chapter 1: Install and configure W-ClearPass hardware and virtual appliances.
l Chapter 2: Prepare the Mobility Controller for integration with W-ClearPass Policy Manager.
l Chapter 3: Integrate W-ClearPass Policy Manager with Microsoft Active Directory.
l Chapter 4: Set up 802.1X wireless authentication with Active Directory.
l Chapter 5: Design and deploy W-ClearPass clusters.
l Chapter 6: Configure the Mobility Access Switch for 802.1X wired authentication.
l Chapter 7: Prepare W-ClearPass for LDAP and SQL authentication.
l Appendix A: Describes how a typical 802.1X authentication session flows when using W-ClearPass as the
authentication server with Microsoft Active Directory as the back-end user identity repository.
l Appendix B: Use the W-ClearPass Configuration API to configure or modify the entities in W-ClearPass
without logging into the Admin user interface. Information about how to access the entire set of APIs
available through W-ClearPass is also provided.
Intended Audience
The intended audience for the W-ClearPass Deployment Guide includes customers, partners, and field System
Engineers.
Please note that this document is not a training guide, and it is assumed that the reader has at minimum
foundational training in W-ClearPass Essentials and, if possible, Dell Certified W-ClearPass Professional (ACCP)
certification.