Email

Guest users can register themselves with their email 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.

To define a guest management configuration using email as the primary key for authentication:

Select Policies > Guest Management.
Select the Email tab.

Set the following email guest user network address and message content information required for notifying a guest with a passcode using email:


Enable	Enable this option so guest users can register themselves with their email 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. This setting is disabled by default and must be enabled to define the required settings.
Host	Define a hostname or IPv4 formatted IP address of the SMTP server resource used for guest management email traffic, guest user credential validation and passcode reception. Optionally create an alias to define the host once and use the alias across different configuration items.
Sender	Provide a 100 character maximum sender name for the guest user receiving the passcode required for registering their guest email credentials.
Security	Use the drop-down menu to select ssl or starttls as the email host server user authentication validation scheme for this particular username and password combination. Optionally select None to apply to no additional user authentication beyond the required username and password combination.
Username	Provide a unique 100 character maximum username unique to this guest management configuration. This username will require its own password and must be correctly provided to receive the required passcode for registering guest email credentials.
Password	Define a 63 character maximum password that must be correctly provided with the unique username to receive the required passcode for registering guest email credentials.
Subject	Enter the 100 character maximum email subject for the email message sent to the guest user along with the required passcode. You can use the tag ‘GM_NAME‘ in the subject which is replaced by the guest user‘s name.
Message	Create the 1024 character maximum message content for the email sent to the guest user along with the passcode. You can use the following tags in the message body. GM_NAME – indicates the guest user‘s name in the message. This tag is replaced by the guest user‘s name when the email is created. GM_PASSCODE - indicates the password assigned to the user. The tag is replaced by the actual password when the email is created. CR-NL - indicates a line break. When used, the word next to this tag starts on a new line when the email is created.

After you have completed configuring the settings, choose from the following actions:
1. Select Revert to restore default settings.
  
  Note
  You cannot restore default settings after applying or saving changes.
2. Select Apply to commit the configured settings.
  
  Note
  This does not permanently save the settings you configured. If you perform a Reload (warm reboot), applied settings will be lost.
3. Select Save to commit and save the configured settings.
  
  Note
  
  If you do not select Apply or Save, the settings that you configured are not saved when you move away from the configuration window.