760wl 2004-03

INTRODUCTION TO THE HP PROCURVE

700WL SERIES

This chapter gives a brief description of the installation procedures for HP ProCurve 700wl Series

products. It consists of the following sections

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1

Order of Network Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2

Tools and Information Required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4

Overview

There are five products that make up the HP ProCurve 700wl Series:

• HP ProCurve Access Control Server 740wl

• HP ProCurve Access Controller 720wl

• HP ProCurve Integrated Access Manager 760wl

The physical installation of the hardware for any of these products is essentially the same, and is

described fully in

Chapter 2, “Hardware Installation”. The hardware installation is always performed

first, before the network installation.

Centralized Administration of the 700wl Series system

Wireless network clients physically connect through Access Controllers, but authentication and rights

administration for these clients is handled centrally from the Access Control Server. In addition, all

configuration of the Access Controllers connected to the system is handled by the Administrative Console

located in the Access Control Server. Once you have installed an Access Controller onto your network,

you should not need to perform any administration functions directly on the Access Controller.

From the centralized Administrative Console on your Access Control Server you can perform the

following configuration functions:

• Configure the 700wl Series system setup, including bridging, DHCP Network for NAT Clients,

Forwarding of IP Address broadcasts, setting up HTTP proxies, configuring SNMP settings, and

setting the system date & time

• Update the 700wl Series system software or return to a previous version

• Set up Wireless Data Privacy policy for clients using VPN protocols

• Set up authentication policies for how users authenticate themselves to the system

• Set up access policies to control what users can do over the network

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