WESM zl Management and Configuration Guide WT.01.XX 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
administrative effort. You must determine the best option for your particular
network environment.
You can also use a combination of methods. For example, install and automat-
ically 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 automat-
ically adopt RPs. For more information about configuring redundancy groups,
see Chapter 10: “Redundancy Groups.”