Example 3: Creating A Wlan Policy - Black Box LWN602A User Manual

In this example, you define a cluster and name it "cluster-test1". Later, in Section 8.3, you assign the cluster to a WLAN policy,
which in turn, you assign to SmartPath AP devices in Section 8.5.
NOTE: A WLAN policy is different from a cluster. Unlike the members of a WLAN policy who share a set of policy-based
configurations, the members of a cluster communicate with each other and coordinate their activities as access points.
WLAN policy members share configurations. Cluster members work together collaboratively.
Click Configuration > Advanced Configuration > Clusters > New, enter the following, leave the other options at their default
settings, and then click Save:
Cluster: cluster1-test (You cannot include spaces in the name of a cluster.)
Description: Test cluster for learning how to use the GUI; remove later
As was done in the previous example, this note and the name "cluster1-test" are intended to act as reminders to replace
this configuration later with a cluster name that you really intend to use.
Modify Encryption Protection: (select)
Automatically generate password: (select)
The password is what cluster members use when authenticating themselves to each other over the wireless backhaul link
using WPA-PSK CCMP (AES). As an admin, you never need to see or know what this string is; therefore, using the
automatic password generation method saves you the trouble of inventing a long—up to 63 characters—and random
alphanumeric string.
Optional Settings: Leave the optional settings as they are by default. For information about these settings, and about any setting
in the GUI for that matter, see the SmartPath EMS on-line Help system.

8.3 Example 3: Creating a WLAN Policy

Through SmartPath EMS, you can configure two broad types of features:
• Policy-level features—In combination, these features form policies that control how users access the network: SSIDs, user
profiles, QoS forwarding mechanisms and rates, clusters, AAA (authentication, authorization, accounting) services, management
services (DNS, NTP, SNMP, and syslog), tunnel policies, IP and MAC firewall policies, and VLAN assignments.
• Device-level features—These features control how cluster members communicate with the network and how radios operate in
different modes, frequencies, and signal strengths.
A WLAN policy is an assembly of policy-level feature configurations that SmartPath EMS pushes to all SmartPath APs that you
assign to the policy. Because these configurations are policy-based, they can apply across multiple physical devices. In contrast,
device-level configurations are more appropriately applied to smaller sets of devices or to individual devices themselves.
In this example, you create a WLAN policy that includes the SSID and cluster configured in the previous two examples. Although
the New WLAN Policy dialog box consists of several pages, for this basic configuration, you only need to configure items on the
first page (see Figure 8-3).
Chapter 8: Basic Configuration Examples
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