WESM zl Management and Configuration Guide WT.01.28 and greater

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Configuring the ProCurve Wireless Edge Services zl Module
Radio Port Adoption
There is one possible drawback to automatically adopting RPs, however. The
Wireless Edge Services zl Module could potentially adopt an unauthorized RP. This
unauthorized RP would be treated exactly as an authorized RP, receiving settings for
your network’s WLANs and sending traffic into the Ethernet network.
If you can tightly control your wireless services-enabled switch and all infrastructure
switches, you can prevent someone from attaching a rogue RP to the network and
adding access to your wireless services in authorized areas. If you are worried about
rogue RPs, you can manually adopt RPs.
Although manually adopting RPs can tighten security, it also requires more admin-
istrative effort. You must determine the best option for your particular network
environment.
You can also use a combination of methods. For example, install and automatically
adopt some RPs. Then enable manual adoption and manually add the remaining RPs.
The RPs that you previously adopted automatically remain adopted.
Note If you create a redundancy group and decide to disable automatic RP adoption, you
should ensure that you disable automatic RP adoption on both the Wireless Edge
Services zl Module and the Redundant Wireless Services zl Module. Otherwise, the
Redundant Wireless Services zl Module will automatically adopt RPs. For more
information about configuring redundancy groups, see Chapter 10: “Redundancy
Groups.”