Meru Technical Note - Configuring guest user accounts

Configuring guest user accounts.

KB ARTICLE TYPE: Configuration

RELATED PRODUCTS:  AP, Controller,

RELATED SOFTWARE VERSIONS: N/A

KEYWORDS: Controller, Captive portal

CONFIGURATION STEPS:

GUI Steps:

STEP 1: Click on “Configuration >> Security >>(Guest Users).

STEP 2: Click the Add button for creating guest user accounts.

STEP 3: Enter guest username, password, service start time and service end time for this particular guest account. Click OK. Repeat Steps 2 and 3 for configuring more accounts.

CLI Steps:

STEP 1: Type “configure terminal”

STEP 2: Type <guest-user username password "start-date start-time"  "end-date end-time” , where username is the username for the guest account, password is the password for this account, start-date/end-date is in the format mm/dd/yyyy and start-time/end-time is in the format hh:mm:ss

STEP 3: Press Enter to save configuration and return to privileged exec mode.

TEST RESULTS: The guest username must be between 1-64 characters.

LIMITATIONS IF ANY: A maximum of 32 guest user accounts can be configured on the controller.