Understanding Captive Portal; Types Of Captive Portal; Captive Portal For Guest Access - Aruba IAP-335 User Manual

This chapter provides the following information:
Understanding Captive Portal on page 117
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Configuring a WLAN SSID for Guest Access on page 118
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Configuring Wired Profile for Guest Access on page 124
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Configuring Internal Captive Portal for Guest Network on page 126
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Configuring External Captive Portal for a Guest Network on page 129
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Configuring Facebook Login on page 135
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Configuring Guest Logon Role and Access Rules for Guest Users on page 136
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Configuring Captive Portal Roles for an SSID on page 138
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Configuring Walled Garden Access on page 141
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Disabling Captive Portal Authentication on page 142
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Understanding Captive Portal

Instant supports the captive portal authentication method, where a web page is presented to the guest users
when they try to access the Internet from hotels, conference centers, or Wi-Fi hotspots. The web page also
prompts the guest users to authenticate or accept the usage policy and terms. Captive portals are used at
many Wi-Fi hotspots and can be used to control wired access as well.
The Instant captive portal solution consists of the following:
The captive portal web login page hosted by an internal or external server.
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The RADIUS authentication or user authentication against IAP's internal database.
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The SSID broadcast by the IAP.
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Using Instant, the administrators can create a wired or WLAN guest network based on captive portal
authentication for guests, visitors, contractors, and any non-employee users who can use the enterprise Wi-Fi
network. The administrators can also create guest accounts and customize the captive portal page with
organization-specific logo, terms, and usage policy. With captive portal authentication and guest profiles, the
devices that connect to the guest SSID are assigned IP addresses and an initial role. When a guest user tries to
access a URL through HTTP or HTTPS, the captive portal web page prompting the user to authenticate with a
username and password is displayed.

Types of Captive Portal

Instant supports the following types of captive portal authentication:
Internal captive portal—For Internal captive portal authentication, an internal server is used for hosting
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the captive portal service. It supports the following types of authentication:
Internal Authenticated—When Internal Authenticated is enabled, a guest user must authenticate
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in the captive portal page to access the Internet. The guest users who are required to authenticate must
already be added to the user database.
Internal Acknowledged—When Internal Acknowledged is enabled, a guest user must accept the
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terms and conditions to access the Internet.
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