Dell W-Series 324 Instant 6.5.1.0-4.3.1.0 User Guide - Page 91

Table 23: Configuration Parameters for WLAN Security Settings in an Employee or Voice Network Parameter Description Security Level l When Reauth interval is configured on an SSID performing only L3 authentication (captive portal authentication)-When reauthentication succeeds, a pre-authentication role is assigned to the client that is in a post-authentication role. Due to this, the clients are required to go through captive portal to regain access. Blacklisting To enable blacklisting of the clients with a specific number of authentication failures, select Enabled from the Blacklisting drop-down list and specify a value for Max authentication failures. The users who fail to authenticate the number of times specified in Max authentication failures are dynamically blacklisted. Enterprise, Personal, and Open security levels. Accounting Select any of the following options: l To enable accounting, select Use authentication servers from the Accounting drop-down list. On enabling the accounting function, W-IAPs post accounting information to the RADIUS server at the specified Accounting interval. l To use a separate server for accounting, select Use separate servers. The accounting server is distinguished from the authentication server specified for the SSID profile. l To disable the accounting function, select Disabled. Enterprise, Personal, and Open security levels. Authentication survivability To enable authentication survivability, set Authentication survivability to Enabled. Specify a value in hours for Cache timeout (global) to set the duration after which the authenticated credentials in the cache must expire. When the cache expires, the clients are required to authenticate again. You can specify a value within a range of 1-99 hours and the default value is 24 hours. NOTE: The authentication survivability feature requires ClearPass Policy Manager 6.0.2 or later, and is available only when the New server option is selected. On setting this parameter to Enabled, Instant authenticates the previously connected clients using EAP-PEAP authentication even when connectivity to ClearPass Policy Manager is temporarily lost. The Authentication survivability feature is not applicable when a RADIUS server is configured as an internal server. Enterprise security level MAC authentication To enable MAC-address-based authentication for Personal and Open security levels, set MAC authentication to Enabled. For Enterprise security level, the following options are available: l Perform MAC authentication before 802.1X-Select this check box to use 802.1X authentication only when the MAC authentication is successful. l MAC authentication fail-thru-On selecting this check box, the 802.1X authentication is attempted when the MAC authentication fails. NOTE: If Enterprise Security level is chosen, the server used for mac Enterprise, Personal, and Open security levels. Dell Networking W-Series Instant 6.5.1.0-4.3.1.0 | User Guide Wireless Network Profiles | 91