Configure System Settings Management Options

Before you begin

Create or open an existing Management Option. See Add Management Options for more information.

Read detailed information about Management Options here.

About this task

System Settings enable you to adjust various device-level functions, including device health alarm thresholds, VoIP features, and client OS detection types.

Procedure

  1. Adjust Device-level Settings as follows:
    • LED Brightness: Use the drop-down menu to set device status LED brightness levels.
    • Temperature Alarm Threshold: Set when a device's ambient temperature generates a warning.
    • Fans Underspeed Alarm Threshold: Set when the fan's operating speed generates a warning.
    • Call Admission Control: Indicates if devices monitor VoIP traffic to determine if there is enough available airtime for new VoIP calls.
      • Airtime per Second: Set the amount of airtime reserved for VoIP traffic. Decreasing the amount of reserved airtime for VoIP traffic frees more airtime for traffic other than VoIP. This can be useful if there are only a few VoIP users on the WLAN. For a high number of VoIP users, increase the amount of reserved airtime.
      • Guaranteed Airtime for Roaming Clients: Set the percentage of airtime that a device reserves on the access interface for receiving VoIP calls from roaming clients. Consider lowering the percent if VoIP users rarely roam, and raising the setting if roaming occurs often.
    • OS Detection: Enable devices to detect client device OS based on a combination of DHCP option 55 contents and what is contained in HTTP headers. After you select this option, choose from the following detection methods:
      • Use DHCP option 55 contents: Select to use the DHCP option 55 parameter list.
      • Use HTTP user agent IDs: Select to use the contents of the HTTP user agent ID within the HTTP headers.
      • Use both detection methods (DHCP=primary method, HTTP=secondary method): Select to use both the DHCP option 55 parameter list and the HTTP user agent information to identify the client operating system. When you select this option, devices first check the contents of the DHCP option 55 parameter list. If it finds no match, then the device examines the HTTP header for the HTTP user agent ID to determine the operating system. If no match is found in either pass, then ExtremeCloud IQ displays unknown as the client OS.
  2. Adjust Miscellaneous Settings as follows:
    • Disable Reset Button: Select to disable the ability of the reset button on the front panel of the chassis to reset the device to its default settings or—if set—to a bootstrap configuration.
    • Disable Console Port: Select to disable the functionality of the console port on a device and block all administrative access to the device through that port.
      Note

      Note

      Disabling the console port means that all administrative access must flow over the network, and if there are any connectivity issues with the network or if the device—if configured to use only DHCP to get an IP address—cannot get its network settings from a DHCP server, you will not be able to log into the device.
    • Enable Smart PoE: Smart PoE lets an AP230, AP320 or AP340 adjust power consumption automatically based on the current power supply. The AP230 and AP320 support PoE on the ETH0 interface. The AP340 supports PoE on both its ETH0 or ETH1 interfaces, and can simultaneously draw power through either one or both. Using Smart PoE, an AP can detect if there are power injectors connected to one or both of its Ethernet ports and how many watts are available for each PoE channel.
    • Enable PCI Wireless Control Data Collection: Select to include data about MAC DoS, IP DoS, and MAC filter violations in PCI compliance reports.
    • Accept ICMP Redirect Messages: Select to enable devices to accept ICMP redirect messages from routers on their subnet, or clear it so that devices reject ICMP redirect messages.
    • Report client information gathered from captive web portals: Select to instruct devices to forward client information (such as name and email address) to ExtremeCloud IQ, where the information is logged as an event.
    • Hostname in Beacon: To use this setting, you must first define the iBeacon service in the associated network policy and then turn it on via the Device Management page.

What to do next

Continue to Configure Authentication Settings Management Options.