New And Enhanced Smartpath Os Features For Release 4.0R1; New And Enhanced Smartpath Ems Vma Features For Release 4.0R1 - Black Box SmartPath LWN602A User Manual

Chapter 2: Preparing for a WAN Deployment

2.5 New and Enhanced SmartPath OS Features for Release 4.0r1

Spectrum Analysis: You can use up to ten SmartPath APs to function as spectrum analyzers for fixed lengths of time. You can
use the spectrum analyzer feature to monitor both the 2.4-GHz and 5-GHz bands. Each SmartPath AP performing spectrum anal-
ysis provides a real-time FFT (fast Fourier transform) trace that displays the frequency-power relationship, along with a swept spec-
trogram to monitor power and frequency changes over time. It also provides an FFT duty cycle trace that indicates how busy the
medium is, along with another swept spectrogram to monitor changes in the duty cycle over time. Additionally, SmartPath APs
can identify many sources of interference by their RF (radio frequency) signatures.
Access and Backhaul on the Same Radio: When operating SmartPath APs as mesh points, you can configure SmartPath AP
radios to operate simultaneously as an access interface and a backhaul interface. This not only provides a failover mechanism if
one of the wireless interfaces fails or loses connectivity, it also allows single radio implementations to service clients and act as
mesh points at the same time.
Automatic and Semi-Automatic Rogue Mitigation: In addition to manually mitigating rogue APs and their clients, you can
configure SmartPath APs to mitigate them automatically upon detection. You can also use a semi-automatic approach in which
you determine when to start the mitigation and allow the SmartPath APs to determine which SmartPath APs carry out the deauth
attacks that comprise the mitigation effort.
Private PSK Enhancements: You can set up a captive Web portal that allows users to self-register and receive their own
individual private PSKs. You can also configure SmartPath APs to generate private PSKs in bulk on a recurring basis with varying
expiration times. Finally, you can configure an SSID so that it automatically binds a private PSK to the MAC address of the first
client that uses it, reserving the key for exclusive use by that client until the private PSK lifetime expires or until an admin manually
unbinds it.
User Profile Reassignment: SmartPath APs can reassign users to different user profiles based on their MAC addresses or OUIs,
operating systems, and device domain names. This allows a user to go on the network with the same credentials, but be assigned
one user profile when using one type of device and a different profile when using another.
NetConfig UI: By default, SmartPath APs act as DHCP clients, so that when you put them on a network, they automatically
obtain appropriate network settings from a DHCP server. However, when a network uses static IP addressing, you must configure
network settings manually on all devices attached to that network. To ease deployment in such circumstances, SmartPath APs
support a NetConfig UI that allows you to ready a SmartPath AP for use on your network quickly and easily. The NetConfig UI is a
Web user interface through which you can manually configure the IP address, netmask, and gateway for a SmartPath AP and
configure SmartPath EMS VMA connectivity settings so that after the SmartPath AP is connected to the network, you can contin-
ue configuring and managing it through SmartPath EMS VMA.
IP Firewall Policy Support of Domain Names: IP firewall policies now support domain names as the source and destination in
their rules.
VMware PCoIP and Citrix ICA: With both PCoIP (PC-over-IP) and Citrix ICA (Independent Computing Architecture) desktop
virtualization protocols now predefined as services, you can quickly create firewall rules to allow or block these two services.

2.6 New and Enhanced SmartPath EMS VMA Features for Release 4.0r1

Active Directory Configuration Improvement: The internal processes used to connect to or query an Active Directory domain
are now more streamlined to simplify the initial setup required to integrate a SmartPath AP RADIUS server with an Active
Directory server. Also, you can now use SmartPath EMS VMA in Express mode to configure a SmartPath AP RADIUS server to
work with an Active Directory server—a feature formerly available only when using Enterprise mode.
RADIUS Authentication for VHM Administrators: In previous SmartPath EMS VMA versions, it was only possible to use
RADIUS authentication for home system administrators when no VHMs were present. Now both home system and VHM
administrators can be authenticated through an external RADIUS server.
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