Role

A Role is a collection of attributes and rules that determine actions taken user traffic accesses the wired network through the WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) service (associated to the WLAN Service's SSID). Depending upon its type, a VNS can have between one and three Authorization Roles associated with it:

1. Default non-authorized role — This is a mandatory role that covers all traffic from stations that have not authenticated. At the administrator's discretion the default non-authorized role can be applied to the traffic of authenticated stations as well.
2. Default authorized role — This is a mandatory role that applies to the traffic of authenticated stations for which no other role was explicitly specified. It can be the same as the default non-authorized role.
3. Third-party AP role — This role applies to the list of MAC addresses corresponding to the wired interfaces of third party APs specifically defined by the administrator to be providing the RF access as an AP WLAN Service. This role is only relevant when applied to third party AP WLAN Services.