E-Mail Notification; Using Smart Path Ap Classifiers - Black Box LWN602A User Manual

Chapter 9: Common Configuration Examples

9.4.6 E-mail Notification

To distribute the private PSK user definitions to the employees and the manager in charge of the contractors, click Configuration >
Advanced Configuration > Authentication > Local Users, select the users, and then click Email PSK. The specified recipients receive
a separate e-mail message for each private PSK user, with content like the following:
PSK: hon;VP#243
Description: Use SSID star
User Name: Bob Lai
Start Time:
End Time:
If you define a lifetime for a private PSK user (configurable in the Private PSK Advanced Options section in the Local User Group
dialog box), start and end times are also listed here. This can be useful if you want to provide users—such as the contractors in
this example perhaps—with WLAN connectivity for a fixed period of time.
Instead of sending the private PSK users through e-mail, you can also export them in a .csv file. To do that, select the users that
you want to export, click the Export PSK button, and then save it to a directory of your choice. You can open the file using a
spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel
9.5 Example 5: Using SmartPath AP Classifiers
In SmartPath EMS, some network objects can support multiple definitions as long as each definition is uniquely classified by a
map name, SmartPath AP name, or classifier tag—and one of the definitions is classified as global. The definition classified as
global is what SmartPath EMS applies when none of the other more specific classification types are applicable. When you then
assign a WLAN policy that includes that one network object to various SmartPath APs, SmartPath EMS applies the appropriate
definition based on the location, name, or tag of each SmartPath AP. The network objects that support multiple definitions are IP
addresses/host names, MAC addresses/OUIs, and VLANs.
In this example, there are four sites: a main office and three branch offices. You assign the same WLAN policy to the SmartPath
APs at all branch offices. However, the network at each office uses a different VLAN for its wireless clients:
• Branch office 1: VLAN 10
• Branch office 2: VLAN 20
• Branch office 3: VLAN 30
To continue using a single WLAN policy for all branch offices while supporting their different VLANs, you use SmartPath AP
classifiers. You do not classify SmartPath APs at Branch Office 1. As a result, they will use the VLAN definition classified as global.
You classify the SmartPath APs at Branch Offices 2 and 3 as "branch2" and "branch3". You also classify two VLAN definitions as
"branch2" and "branch3" so that SmartPath EMS will apply them to the SmartPath APs with the same classifiers. The
classification scheme is show in Figure 9-18.
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