Captive Portal - Hotspot Services
A hotspot is a wireless network that provides access through a captive portal. Use this feature to setup captive portal related configurations.
A captive portal provides registered users with network access while containing unregistered users. Users will need to enter a valid user name and password before they are allowed access to the Internet through the hotspot. Once a Captive Portal Profile is created, the administrator can apply this profile to multiple Guest Networks SSIDs.
Note: Captive portal profiles can only be assigned to the Guest Network SSIDs.
Login Type:
Defines the mechanism by which a wireless client gains access to the network after the client has associated to the SSID.
Splash & Go | The wireless client is granted network access without any further
authentication as soon as it is associates to the SSID. |
Local User DB | The wireless client is authenticated using the EWS Switch's local database
(from Hotspot Service > Guest Account). |
External RADIUS Server | The wireless client is authenticated using an external RADIUS server. |
Login Page:
A splash page is the web page which prompts the user to log in with a user name and password, or accept a network use policy once the client has associated to the SSID.
Local Web Page | Use the splash page hosted locally by EWS Switch. The local splash page enable administrators to eliminate the need to set up a local web server. Basic customizations like displaying a corporate logo, custom message and term of use is available. |
Redirect users to external URL | External splash page enables the administrator to host their own the splash page web server, rather than having it hosted by the EWS Switch. |
Redirect Behavior: Configure where users will be redirected after successful login. You could redirect them to the page that they want to visit, or you could set a different page where users will be redirected.
Redirect to the URL that the user was trying to visit | Select this option for ezMaster to cache the initial website from the client during the authentication process and then forward it to the originally targeted web server after the user successfully authenticates. |
Redirect users to a specified URL after login | Select this option to redirect users to a specific URLafter users successfully authenticates. |
User Session: Configure session timeout and ideal timeout period.
Session Timeout | Specify a time limit after which users will be disconnected and required to log in again. |
Idle Timeout | Specify a time limit for anidle client after which users will be disconnected and required to log in again. |
Walled Garden: This option allows users to define network destinations that users can access before authentication. For example, your company's website.
Guest Account
On this page, an administrator can create, edit, and remove user accounts used for captive portal's local database authentication.
Add: Create a new user account.
Remove: Delete the selected user account.
Edit: Edit the settings of the selected user account.
There is no limit as to the number of user accounts that you can add to the captive portal's local database.
Allowed Characters for the Guest Account:
Username: 0-9a-zA-Z_!@$%^*()-+=|<>,.?;{}~
Password: 0-9a-zA-Z_!@$%^*()-+=|<>,.?;{}~
Description: 0-9a-zA-Z~`!@#_={}:;<,>()^|space.$*[]/-(\r\n or \r or \n)