About Captive Web Portals

Extreme Networks supports two types of captive web portal (CWP):

• AP hosted portals on built-in web servers
• Extreme Networks hosted portals on cloud web servers

AP hosted portals support several user registration types (user authentication, self-registration to provide user data, use policy acceptance, self-registration to obtain a PPSK) plus an extensive set of configuration options. Cloud server hosted portals support two registration options: users can register by authenticating with their social media credentials or by requesting and submitting a PIN. A cloud-based CWP also has a simpler set of configuration options.

After defining a CWP, you must take one of two actions for your changes to take effect:

• For an AP hosted CWP, upload the configuration, web page files, and certificates (for secure communications using HTTPS) to your devices.
• For a cloud-based CWP, upload the configuration to your devices. ExtremeCloud IQ automatically stores the web page files and certificates in the cloud.

Note

To remove an existing login button that has already been deployed, you must resave the CWP and the Network Policy, and then redeploy the respective network policy to the device.

ExtremeCloud IQ can include multiple CWPs.