Setting the Guest Management Configuration

About this task

Establish a guest management configuration to redirect guest users to a registration portal upon association to the captive portal SSID, The guest users are redirected to an internally (or) externally hosted registration page (registration.html) where the guest user can complete the registration process if not previously registered. The internal captive portal adds a new registration page that‘s customizable based on business requirement.

A guest management policy is for configuration of E-mail host and SMS gateway related commands along with the credentials required for sending passcode to guest via email and SMS. Configure up to 32 different guest management policies. Each guest management policy allows an administrator to configure the SMS gateway, SMS message body, E-mail SMTP server, E-mail subject contents and E-mail message body. At any point of time, there can be only one guest management policy active per device.

Guest registration is supported on NX9000 series service platforms as an adopting controller with up to 2 million user identity entries. Guest registration is supported on NX 7500 series service platforms as an adopting controller with up to 1 million user identity entries. Guest management and registration is not supported on all other WiNG supported platforms.

Note

An option to backup the guest registration configuration is not available in the user interface. To backup the guest user database, a guest-databasebackup command must be invoked using the CLI. For more information, refer to the WiNG CLI Reference Guide.

Refer to the following sections for configuring Guest Management parameters:

To set the guest management configuration:

Procedure

Select Configuration > Services > Guest Management.
The Guest Management screen displays.
Guest Management Screen

Review the following (at a high level) to determine if a new guest management requires creation, an existing guest management configuration requires modification, or an existing configuration needs to be deleted.


Name	Lists the name(s) of up to 32 guest user policies created on the service platform for registering guest user credentials.
Email Enable	A green check mark defines Email as enabled for guest management, a red X defines Email as disabled. Guest users can register themselves with their E-mail credentials as a primary key for authentication; captive portal system provides the pass code for their registration and the guest users needs to use the registered email/mobile/member id and the received pass code for further login to the captive portal.
SMS Enable	A green check mark defines SMS as enabled for guest management, a red X defines SMS as disabled. SMS enables guest users to registers themselves with their E-mail or mobile device ID as the primary key for authentication. The captive portal provides the passcode for registration, and the guest users utilizes use their registered E-mail or mobile device ID and received passcode for login to the captive portal.
SMS SMTP Enable	A green check mark defines SMS SMTP as enabled for guest management, a red X defines SMS SMTP as disabled. Optionally configure an E-mail host server (for example: smtp.gmail.com) along with sender related credentials and the recipient gateway E-mail address to which the message is E-mailed. The gateway server converts the E-mail into SMS and sends the message to the guest user‘s mobile device.
DB Export Enable	A green check mark indicates that exporting the guest user database is enabled for this device. When enabled, the list of guest users on the captive portal can be periodically exported to an external server.

Click Add to create a new guest management configuration, choose an existing configuration and click Edit to modify its properties, or choose an existing guest management and click Delete to remove it from those available.
Click Rename to change the name of an existing guest management configuration or copy a configuration to a different location. Click Replace to replace an existing Guest Management policy with a new policy.