Importing Private Psk Users - Black Box LWN602A User Manual

Chapter 9: Common Configuration Examples
User Profile Attribute: 35
VLAN ID: 1
Reauthorization Time: 1800 (default)
NOTE: If you want to define advanced options, click + to expand the Private PSK Advanced Options section. You can modify the
characteristics of keys that SmartPath EMS generates, such as their length, the types of characters used in them, the meth-
od of their generation, and the period of time during which they are valid. This example uses the default settings, one of
which is the requirement that the password in the imported .csv file must contain letters, digits, and special characters.
This requirement has significance in Section 9.4.4.

9.4.3 Importing Private PSK Users

Create a list of private PSK users in a .csv file, assign them to the two private PSK user groups Employees(30) and Contractors(35),
and import the file to SmartPath EMS.
1. Define a set of private PSK users in a CSV-formatted file, and save it to your management system. The left-to-right order of
columns in file must be as follows:
User Name, User Type (3), User Group Name, Password, Email, Description, Virtual SmartPath EMS Name
The value 3 indicates that the user type is a manually defined private PSK user. When using the default settings, the password
must contain letters, digits, and special characters.* Multiple e-mail addresses (up to 128 characters total) must be separated by
semicolons without spaces before or after the semicolons. The text in the Description column is included in the e-mail sent to
users, so you use it to identify the SSID. The last column is only required if there is at least one virtual SmartPath EMS system
and you are logged in to "All VSPMs" as an admin with superuser privileges. Otherwise, omit it.
* If you do not include a password string in the imported file, SmartPath EMS automatically generates a random string during the
import process. For example, if the first entry omits the password, it would be as follows (note the empty space between the
commas): Bob Lai, 3, Employees(30), , hm-admin@apis.com;blai@apis.com, Use SSID star, home
The following is a sample of a few private PSK user definitions:
#User Name, User Type 3, User Group Name, Password, Email, Description, VHM
Bob Lai, 3, Employees(30), hon;VP#243, hm-admin@apis.com;blai@apis.com, Use SSID star, home
Jenny Lo, 3, Employees(30), loN#953d:)n, hm-admin@apis.com;jlo@apis.com, Use SSID star, home
Phil Wei, 3, Contractors(35), meX18ca1#!, hm-admin@apis.com;mgr@apis.com, Use SSID star, home
Bill Li, 3, Contractors(35), Cm$7)3bO1!, hm-admin@apis.com;mgr@apis.com, Use SSID star, home
Notice that the private PSK user definitions for employees are sent directly to the people who will use them, but those for
contractors are sent to a department manager for dissemination. All definitions are also sent to the SmartPath EMS
administrator as a backup.
2. Click Configuration > Advanced Configuration > Authentication > Local Users > Import > Browse, navigate to the file
containing the private PSK user definitions, select it, and then click Import.
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