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USING THE 700Wl SERIES SYSTEM
This chapter provides a brief introduction on using the 700wl Series system and its Administrative
Interface. It also provides an overview and discussion on a number of common tasks you may need to
accomplish. The topics covered in this chapter include:
Initial Configuration of the 700wl Series System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
Managing and Administering the 700wl Series System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2
Logging on to the Administrative Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4
Using the Administrative Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6
Basic System Configuration Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-15
System Features and Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-16
This chapter assumes that you have installed your ProCurve Access Control Server or Integrated Access
Manager as instructed in the 700wl Series System Quick Start Guide or the 700wl Series System Installation
and Getting Started Guide. This chapter takes you through the next steps towards configuring and using
the 700wl Series system. The first section takes you through the required settings from the “Complete
the Configuration” steps in the 700wl Series System Quick Start Guide.
Initial Configuration of the 700wl Series System
The initial configuration of a 700wl Series system component, sufficient to allow network access, is
described in both the 700wl Series System Quick Start Guide shipped with each hardware unit, and in
more detail in the 700wl Series System Installation and Getting Started Guide.
If you have installed your 700wl Series system according to the instructions in the Quick Start Guide, it
should be configured with a set of basic network configuration settings.
For a Access Control Server, these settings include:
• IP address of the Access Control Server
• Subnet mask that defines the subnet associated with the Access Control Server (the default is
255.255.255.0 (/24))
• Name of the domain in which the 700wl Series system resides
• Default router (gateway) IP address
• Primary and secondary DNS server addresses
• Shared secret, used to enable Access Controllers or a peer Access Control Server to establish a
trusted communication relationship with the Access Control Server. This is actually an optional
item in the initial installation process of a Access Control Server, but no system components will be