HP MSM7XX User manual

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Installation and Getting Started Guide

HP MSM7xx Controllers Management and Configuration Guide

HP MSM7xx Controllers

Management and Configuration Guide

HP MSM7xx Controllers

Management and Configuration Guide

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January 2011

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Contents

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Contents

1Introduction

About this guide ...........................................................................................................1-2

Products covered...................................................................................................1-2

Important terms.....................................................................................................1-3

Conventions ...........................................................................................................1-4

New in this release ......................................................................................................1-6

Introducing the MSM7xx Controllers........................................................................1-7

Simplified configuration, deployment, and operation ......................................1-7

Controller teaming ................................................................................................1-8

Seamless mobility..................................................................................................1-9

Best-in-class public/guest network access service .........................................1-11

Safety information......................................................................................................1-12

HP support ..................................................................................................................1-13

Getting started ............................................................................................................1-13

Online documentation ...............................................................................................1-13

2Management

Management tool..........................................................................................................2-2

Management scenarios .........................................................................................2-2

Management station ..............................................................................................2-2

Starting the management tool..............................................................................2-2

Customizing management tool settings..............................................................2-3

Password security policies...................................................................................2-7

Management tool security features.....................................................................2-8

Web server ..............................................................................................................2-8

Auto-refresh ...........................................................................................................2-9

Device discovery ..........................................................................................................2-9

Mobility controller discovery.............................................................................2-10

Controlled AP discovery.....................................................................................2-11

Contents

SNMP ...........................................................................................................................2-13

Configuring the SNMP agent..............................................................................2-13

SOAP............................................................................................................................2-16

Configuring the SOAP server .............................................................................2-16

CLI................................................................................................................................2-17

Configuring CLI support.....................................................................................2-18

System time.................................................................................................................2-19

3Network configuration

Port configuration........................................................................................................3-3

LAN port configuration.........................................................................................3-4

Internet port configuration...................................................................................3-5

PPPoE client ..........................................................................................................3-6

DHCP client............................................................................................................3-8

Static addressing....................................................................................................3-9

Network profiles ........................................................................................................3-12

About the default network profiles...................................................................3-12

To define a network profile ................................................................................3-12

Address allocation......................................................................................................3-13

DHCP server.........................................................................................................3-14

DHCP relay agent ................................................................................................3-16

VLAN support .............................................................................................................3-19

GRE tunnels ................................................................................................................3-19

Bandwidth control .....................................................................................................3-21

Internet port data rate limits..............................................................................3-22

Bandwidth levels .................................................................................................3-22

Example................................................................................................................3-23

Discovery protocols...................................................................................................3-24

LLDP agents .........................................................................................................3-24

CDP .......................................................................................................................3-24

DNS ..............................................................................................................................3-25

DNS servers..........................................................................................................3-26

DNS advanced settings .......................................................................................3-26

Contents

IP routes ......................................................................................................................3-27

Configuration .......................................................................................................3-28

Network address translation (NAT).........................................................................3-30

NAT security and static mappings.....................................................................3-30

VPN One-to-one NAT...........................................................................................3-33

RIP................................................................................................................................3-33

IP QoS..........................................................................................................................3-34

Configuration .......................................................................................................3-34

Example................................................................................................................3-35

IGMP proxy.................................................................................................................3-37

4Wireless configuration

Wireless coverage.........................................................................................................4-2

Factors limiting wireless coverage......................................................................4-2

Configuring overlapping wireless cells...............................................................4-3

Supporting 802.11n and legacy wireless clients ................................................4-7

Radio configuration .....................................................................................................4-8

Radio configuration parameters........................................................................4-18

Advanced wireless settings ................................................................................4-29

Wireless neighborhood..............................................................................................4-34

Scanning modes...................................................................................................4-34

Viewing wireless information...................................................................................4-35

Viewing all wireless clients ................................................................................4-35

Viewing info for a specific wireless client........................................................4-36

Viewing wireless client data rates .....................................................................4-38

Wireless access points ........................................................................................4-39

5Working with VSCs

Key concepts.................................................................................................................5-3

Viewing and editing VSC profiles ........................................................................5-4

The default VSC .....................................................................................................5-4

VSC configuration options ..........................................................................................5-5

About access control and authentication...........................................................5-6

Contents

Summary of VSC configuration options .............................................................5-8

Access control........................................................................................................5-9

Virtual AP..............................................................................................................5-10

VSC ingress mapping...........................................................................................5-16

VSC egress mapping............................................................................................5-17

Bandwidth control...............................................................................................5-17

Default user data rates........................................................................................5-18

Wireless mobility .................................................................................................5-18

Fast wireless roaming.........................................................................................5-20

Wireless security filters.......................................................................................5-20

Wireless protection..............................................................................................5-23

802.1X authentication .........................................................................................5-26

RADIUS authentication realms..........................................................................5-26

HTML-based user logins .....................................................................................5-27

VPN-based authentication..................................................................................5-28

MAC-based authentication .................................................................................5-28

Location-aware ....................................................................................................5-29

Wireless MAC filter..............................................................................................5-29

Wireless IP filter...................................................................................................5-30

DHCP server.........................................................................................................5-30

DHCP relay agent ................................................................................................5-31

VSC data flow .............................................................................................................5-32

Access control enabled.......................................................................................5-32

Access control disabled......................................................................................5-34

Using multiple VSCs...................................................................................................5-36

About the default VSC ...............................................................................................5-36

Quality of service (QoS) ............................................................................................5-37

Priority mechanisms ...........................................................................................5-38

IP QoS profiles .....................................................................................................5-40

Upstream DiffServ tagging .................................................................................5-41

Upstream/downstream traffic marking ............................................................5-41

QoS example ........................................................................................................5-43

Contents

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Creating a new VSC....................................................................................................5-44

Assigning a VSC to a group .......................................................................................5-44

6Working with controlled APs

Key concepts.................................................................................................................6-3

Key controlled-mode events .......................................................................................6-4

Discovery of controllers by controlled APs..............................................................6-6

Discovery overview...............................................................................................6-6

Discovery methods................................................................................................6-7

Discovery order .....................................................................................................6-9

Discovery recommendations .............................................................................6-10

Discovery priority................................................................................................6-11

Discovery considerations ...................................................................................6-13

Monitoring the discovery process .....................................................................6-13

Authentication of controlled APs.............................................................................6-19

Building the AP authentication list ...................................................................6-20

Configuring APs..........................................................................................................6-22

Overview...............................................................................................................6-22

Inheritance ...........................................................................................................6-23

Configuration strategy ........................................................................................6-24

Working with groups ...........................................................................................6-25

Working with APs ................................................................................................6-26

Assigning egress VLANs to a group...................................................................6-30

Assigning country settings to a group...............................................................6-30

Provisioning APs ........................................................................................................6-31

Provisioning methods .........................................................................................6-32

Displaying the provisioning pages.....................................................................6-33

Provisioning connectivity...................................................................................6-34

Provisioning discovery........................................................................................6-37

Provisioning summary ........................................................................................6-38

Provisioning example..........................................................................................6-39

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AeroScout RTLS .........................................................................................................6-40

Software retrieval/update..........................................................................................6-42

Monitoring...................................................................................................................6-42

7Working with VLANs

Key concepts.................................................................................................................7-2

VLAN usage ............................................................................................................7-2

Defining a VLAN ...........................................................................................................7-3

Creating a network profile ...................................................................................7-3

Defining a VLAN ....................................................................................................7-4

Defining a VLAN on a controller port .................................................................7-4

User-assigned VLANs...................................................................................................7-6

Traffic flow for wireless users....................................................................................7-6

Traffic flow examples ................................................................................................7-10

Example 1: Overriding the VSC egress on a controller with a user-assigned

VLAN .....................................................................................................................7-10

Example 2: Overriding the egress network in a VSC binding with a user-

assigned VLAN .....................................................................................................7-12

8Controller teaming

Key concepts.................................................................................................................8-2

Centralized configuration management .............................................................8-2

Centralized monitoring and operation................................................................8-2

Redundancy and failover support .......................................................................8-3

Scalability ...............................................................................................................8-3

Deployment considerations .................................................................................8-3

Limitations..............................................................................................................8-5

Creating a team.............................................................................................................8-5

Configuration example .........................................................................................8-6

Controller discovery ..................................................................................................8-10

Monitoring the discovery process .....................................................................8-11

Viewing all discovered controllers ....................................................................8-14

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