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Depending on your network configuration, use basic settings or advanced settings to manage
your access points:
Basic settings for a typical network. The basic settings work with most common
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network configurations. For example, all access points on the WLAN are for the same
organization or business and therefore adhere to the same policies and use a small
number of service set identifiers (SSIDs, or network names).
• Advanced settings for access point profile groups. If you have a large wireless
network, or if completely separate networks share a single WLAN, use the advanced
settings to set up multiple access point profile groups with multiple security profiles
(SSIDs with associated security settings). For example, a shopping mall might need
several access point profile groups if several businesses share a WLAN but each
business has its own network. Larger networks could require multiple access point profile
groups to allow different policies per building or department. The access points could
have different security profiles per building and department, for example, one for guests,
one for management, one for sales, and so on.
Note: Access point profile groups are also referred to as just profile
groups.
Profiles, security profiles, and SSIDs (that is, SSIDs with associated
security settings) are terms that are interchangeable.
To accommodate all types of networks, almost all configuration menus of the web
management interface are divided into basic and advanced submenus. The following figure
shows an example of the Security > Wireless > Basic submenu on the left and the
Security > Wireless > Advanced submenu on the right:
Figure 7.
Before you start the configuration of your wireless controller, decide whether you can use a
basic configuration (that is, follow the basic submenus) or need to use an advanced
configuration (that is, follow the advanced submenus). Once you have made your choice,
configuring the wireless controller should be fairly easy if you consistently follow either the
basic submenus or the advanced submenus.
ProSafe 20-AP Wireless Controller WC7520
Introduction and Overview
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