What Are Unp Mobile Rules? - Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6850-48 Network Configuration Manual

Access Guardian Overview

What are UNP Mobile Rules?

Classifying devices with UNP mobile rules allows the administrator to assign users to a profile group
based on the source IP or source MAC address of the device. For example, 802.1X port 1/10 is configured
with a device classification policy that uses Group Mobility. Next, a UNP mobile rule is configured with
10.1.1.0 as the source IP value and "Engineering" as the user profile. Any devices connecting to port 1/10
with a source IP address that falls within the 10.1.1.0 network is assigned to the Engineering profile.
If the UNP option of a device classification policy is used to classify users into profile groups, all devices
that the policy authorizes for a specific port are assigned to the profile regardless of the their source IP or
MAC address values. UNP rules narrow the selection of user devices for profile groups.
When the Group Mobility option of an Access Guardian device classification policy is used to deploy a
UNP, Group Mobility checks to see if any UNP mobile rules (also referred to as device classification
rules) exist in the switch configuration. If so, the UNP rules are applied, as they take precedence over
VLAN rules. If there are no applicable UNP rules, then the VLAN rules are applied.
UNP rules differ from VLAN rules in that they assign a user profile to a device that matches the rule. The
profile then determines the VLAN assignment for the device. VLAN rules directly assign a device to the
VLAN for which the matching rules are configured.
There are three types of UNP mobile rules available: IP address, MAC address, and MAC address range.
Each type of rule specifies the criteria that a device must match and the name of a user profile that is
applied to the device when the match occurs.
For more information about UNP rules, see
page 34-41. For more information about Group Mobility VLAN rules, see
Rules."
page 34-18
"Configuring User Network Profile Mobile Rules" on
OmniSwitch AOS Release 6 Network Configuration Guide
Configuring Access Guardian
Chapter 8, "Defining VLAN
September 2009