Captive Portal Front Desk - D-Link DWC-1000 User Manual

Wireless Controller
The typical Hotspot application is an administrator at a front desk or reception granting
temporary user accounts for internet access through a captive portal. This portal will
have an SLA and associated billing profile. Whenever the front desk admin creat es new
temporary user accounts, the admin will have to push these temporary accounts to the
peer controller manually via the DWC GUI.
However in a clustering setup, temporary users created in one controller will be pushed
automatically to the peer controller. The billing profiles associated with that user will
have to be pushed manually to peer controllers in advance. This will allow the auto -
synchronization of temporary users to take place between peer controllers.
Example:
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In a hotel, the controller administrator creates a set of billing and captive portal
profiles and pushes them from the DWC controller to all peer controllers
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The front desk administrator creates temporary accounts for a new guest
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The temporary accounts will be pushed automatically to all peer controllers so
that guests can have access to the portal and be authenticated for internet access
from any floor, any peer controller.
The front desk administrator has the ability to create 256 temporary users. Each peer
controller can manage 1024 total temporary users. For the auto-synchronization to work
it is a requirement that each controller in the cluster have synchronized time settings,
to enable time-based billing or accounting for the user.
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Note: accounting is on a per-controller basis. This means that a temporary
user authenticated on one controller will not have its usage statistics shared
among controllers in the event that the same user credentials are used to
authenticate via another peer or cluster controller.

2.6.8 Captive Portal Front Desk

The Front Desk user has the ability to create temporary user accounts for internet access
thorugh the Captive Portal. This user does not have full administrative priviledges, but
instead will be able to create a user based on pre -defined billing profiles.
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