Meru Technical Note - Configuring WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK security profile

Configuring WPA2-PSK security profile

KB ARTICLE TYPE: Configuration

RELATED PRODUCTS: controller, WPA-PSK, security profile

RELATED SOFTWARE VERSIONS: N/A

KEYWORDS: Ascom, practice, battery

CONFIGURATION STEPS:

GUI STEPS:

Step 1: Go to Configuration tab > Click on Security > Click Add.

Step 2: Select WPA2-PSK keys under L2 Modes Allowed, data encrypt mode will be set to CCMP-AES.

Step 3: Pre-shared Key (Alphanumeric/Hexadecimal). In the Pre-shared Key text box, enter the key that is to be used for WPA2-PSK. The key can be from 8 to 63 ASCII characters or 64 hex characters (hex keys must use the prefix "0x" or the key will not work).

Step 4: Leave reset of the settings as default >> click OK and save the settings

CLI STEPS:

Step 1: Get into the CLI of the controller, through  SSH

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

Step 3 : MeruController1(config)# security-profile <profile-name>
MeruController1(config-security)# allowed-l2-modes wpa2-psk
MeruController1(config-security)# psk key <key>
MeruController1(config-security)# encryption-modes ccmp-aes
MeruController1(config-security)# exit
MeruController1(config)#

Step 4: Save the running config to startup config

Step 5: Now to use the security profile map it to ess profile

TEST RESULTS: Wireless clients connecting to the ssid with WPA2-PSK security profile will be seeing the network as secured and has to provide the PSK-key to get authenticated into the network.