Customizing Web Authentication Html Files (Optional); Implementing Customized Web-Auth Pages; Operating Notes And Guidelines - HP E3800-24G-PoE+-2SFP+ Access Security Manual

Web and MAC Authentication

Customizing Web Authentication HTML Files (Optional)

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Customizing Web Authentication HTML
Files (Optional)
The Web Authentication process displays a series of web pages and status
messages to the user during login. The web pages that are displayed can be:
■ Generic, default pages generated directly by the switch software
Customized pages hosted on a local web server.
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By creating customized login web pages, you can improve the "look and feel"
of the Web Authentication process to correspond more closely with your
network and business needs. For example, you can:
■ Identify the network that a client is trying to log into.
Provide contact information if a client has difficulty connecting to the
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network.
Incorporate CSS styles consistent with the appearance of your
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network.

Implementing Customized Web-Auth Pages

To implement "enhanced" Web Authentication pages, you need to:
Configure and start a web server on your local network,
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■ Customize the HTML template files and make them accessible to the
web server
Configure the switch to display the customized files by using the aaa
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port-access web-based ewa-server command to specify the server's IP
address or host name and the path to the customized HTML files on
the server. See page 4-23 for syntax details.

Operating Notes and Guidelines

■ Customized Web Authentication pages are configured per switch, so
that each Web-Auth enabled port displays the same customized pages
at client login.
The customized web pages you create can be hosted on up to three
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web servers in your network. Implementing multiple web servers
provides redundancy in case access to any of the other servers fail.