User`s guide

5-8 VBN gateway and Network Services System switch configuration
Software Release 2.30 YesWare Applications User’s Guide 08-01016-01
Procedure 5-1 (continued)
Provisioning the VBN gateway and Network Services System switch
Step Action
15 Continue with the provisioning process by provisioning the EtherLoop-VBN
database (Chapter 6) and/or the Ethernet-VBN database (Chapter 7),
depending on the facility requirements.
STOP
You have completed this task.
Table 5-2
Network Services System port settings
Port Setting Configuration Requirement
Switch IP
Address
Select the IP address of the Network Services System switch.
Port Number In the Add Ports
/ Configure Port dialog, this number is automatically incremented. In
the Add/Search Port List
/ Port Configuration dialog, manually enter "1" for the Network
Services System port.
Port Location Enter the location name indicating the physical location of the YWS. This location name
must be unique and not shared by any other port (EtherLoop or Ethernet) in the VBN
system.
Port Section Enter the port section number assigned to the YWS. This number must be unique and
not shared by any other port (EtherLoop or Ethernet) in the system.
Port Status Enabled or Disabled. Select Enabled
to activate service. This field must be enabled for
the port (and the InterProxy) to function.
Validation
Policy
Select "Disabled." This field controls user authentication for port-billing purposes, and the
Network Services System is not a billable port. For Enhanced Modem Billing or Ethernet
Port Billing, visitor authentication is managed using the CO modem port or Ethernet-VBN
switch port. For Modem Connection Billing, user authentication is not supported.
Rate Plan ID Name of the rate plan applied to this port. Not functional for the Network Services
System, leave this field set as default "Daily Guest Room."
Port Use
Context
Select "Network" for the Network Services System switch.
Downlink IP
Address
No downlink switch is provisioned in Enhanced Modem Billing configurations. If an
Ethernet-VBN switch hierarchy will be provisioned, use this field to select the IP address
of the "highest" Ethernet-VBN switch in the hierarchy. See Chapter 7, “Provisioning the
Ethernet-VBN switches and ports” for more information on Ethernet-VBN switch
hierarchies.