Meru Technical Note - Configuring Clear security profile

Configuring Clear security profile.

KB ARTICLE TYPE: Configuration

RELATED PRODUCTS: controller

RELATED SOFTWARE VERSIONS: N/A

KEYWORDS: security, profile, subnet

CONFIGURATION STEPS:

GUI steps:

Step 1 : Go to Configuration tab > Click on Security > create security profile with “L2 allowed mode” set to clear with all other settings left to default.

STEP 2: Click OK and save the settings

CLI Steps:

Step 1: Get into the CLI of the controller through telnet, hyper terminal or SSH

Step 2 : Get into config terminal mode and use the following commands

Step 3 : MeruController1# configure terminal
MeruController1(config)# security-profile <profile name>
MeruController1(config-security)# allowed-l2-modes clear
MeruController1(config-security)# exit
MeruController1(config)# exit

Step 4 : Save the running config to startup config

Step 5 : Use the following command to see the security profile
MeruController1# sh security-profile <profile-name>
MeruController1# sh security-profile <profile-name>

EXPECTED BEHAVIOUR: Wireless clients connecting to the ssid with “clear” security profile will be seeing the network as unsecured. Users would get access to the network without any authentication.