User's Manual

HotPoint Wireless Access Point 19
AP Group Commands
HotPoint Access Points can be grouped for management purposes. Each
group shares a set of administrative accounts and passwords. The AP Group
Configuration command, under the Access Point menu, opens a dialog box,
in which you can create new groups and edit existing groups.
The Configure button lets you re-define the user ID and password for all
APs in a group. There is an account name for read-write privileges, and a
second, ‘guest’ account with read-only privileges. The defaults are admin
and firetide, but these should be changed for security reasons.
Most small installations will find a single AP group for all APs to be the
most convenient to manage. Larger installations which have APs for secu-
rity purposes as well as user data networking may wish to divide the man-
agement functions (and access privileges) by creating multiple groups with
unique user IDs.