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Configuring the Altitude AP
4 In the Certificate request section, type the following:
Country name - The two-letter ISO abbreviation of the name of the country
State or Province name - The name of the State/Province
Locality name (city) - The name of the city
Organization name - The name of the organization
Organizational Unit name - The name of the unit within the organization
Common name - Click the value you want to assign as the common name of the Altitude AP:
Name - The name of the Altitude AP, which is assigned on the WAP Properties tab. The
Altitude AP name can be edited.
Serial - The serial number of the Altitude AP. The Altitude AP serial number cannot be
edited.
MAC - The MAC address of the Altitude AP. The Altitude AP MAC address cannot be edited.
Email address - The email address of the organization
5 Click Generate Certificates. The AP 802.1X Multi-edit progress window is displayed, which
provides the status of the configuration process. Once complete, the File Download dialog is
displayed.
6 Click Save. The Save as window is displayed.
7 Navigate to the location on your computer that you want to save the generated
certificate_requests.tar file, and then click Save.
The certificate_requests.tar file contains a certificate request (.csr) file for each Altitude AP. For each
certificate request, generate a certificate using the third-party Certificate Authentication application.
Once complete, zip all the certificates files (.cer) into one .zip file.
8 In the Bulk Certificate Upload section, click Browse. The Choose file window is displayed.
9 Navigate to the location of the zipped certificates file, and then click Open. The name of the zipped
certificates file is displayed in the ZIP Archive box.
10 Click Upload and Set certificates. Once complete, the Settings updated message is displayed in the
footer of the Summit WM GUI.
Configuring 802.1X EAP-TLS authentication in pass through mode using Multi-edit:
Before you configure 802.1X EAP-TLS authentication in pass through mode using Multi-edit, the
following prerequisites are required:
You must first generate a certificate for each Altitude AP using the third-party Certificate
Authentication application.
When generating the certificates:
Use the Common name value (either Name, Serial, or MAC) of the Altitude AP to name each
generated certificate.
Use a common password for each generated certificate.
All .pfx files created by the third-party Certificate Authentication application must be zipped into
one file.
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