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Chapter 8: Roles and Role Elements
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It reduces the number of administrative changes you need to make to roles. If you
need to make changes to the base role, you need only to change that one role. All
roles that inherit the base role will also inherit the changes you have made.
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It reduces the chance of administrative error by allowing you to change one role
rather than each and every role that inherits it.
As part of the role definition procedure, you can specify which role, if any, should be
inherited by the role you are defining.
Defining a Role
Define roles to permit or deny wireless clients access to device or network destinations
and services from certain logical locations over specified time periods. You can also
define the following for each user to whom the role is assigned:
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amount of bandwidth available for the connection
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tunneling protocol that is used for the connection
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relative priority of traffic during periods of BSC congestion
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DSCP marking of packets to establish forwarding priorities
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VLAN tagging to route user traffic to a specific VLAN on the protected side of the
network
To define a role:
Displaying the
Click the User Roles tab in the BSC administrator console.
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Create a role
Select Role from the Create drop-down list on the Roles page.
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The Create a role page appears as shown in Figure 8-3.
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