About Captive Web Portals

Extreme Networks provides two types of captive web portals (CWPs): those that individual APs host on built-in web servers and those that ExtremeCloud IQ hosts on web servers in the cloud. The former supports 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. The latter supports 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:

ExtremeCloud IQ can include multiple CWPs.