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Section 6 - Securing Your Network
Captive Portal Front Desk
The Front Desk user has the ability to create temporary user accounts for internet access through the Captive
Portal. This user does not have full administrative privileges, but instead will be able to create a user based on
pre-defined billing profiles.
All created Billing Profiles are available for display on the Front Desk user’s admin page. From this page, create
a new temporary user ID and associate a pre-defined Billing Profile to this user. The Front Desk user will be able
to leverage the features like batch user generation, customized account names, or modifying usage limits for
these temporary CP users if the admin has enabled the Billing Profile with this support.
The section “Captive Portals SSID Setup” outlines how to associate an SSID for Captive Portal authentication. For
users given access by the Front Desk, the Captive Portal Type needs to be a temporary user. This will allow for
the usage limits to have control on the amount or duration of internet access.
The last step to leverage this feature is to create a Front Desk group and assign a user to this group (i.e. user-
name = HotelAdmin). The Front Desk user (HotelAdmin) will be allowed to access the appliance’s management
interface via the following URL: <Controller_LAN_IP>/frontdesk. With the defined login credentials, the Front
Desk user can now create and customize temporary accounts for internet access through the selected Billing
Profile.
Note
:
• The entered URL of <Controller_LAN_IP>/frontdesk will redirect to <Controller_LAN_IP>/platform.
cgi?page=billingDeskLogin.htm. I.e. if the LAN IP address is the default 192.168.10.1, then the Front Desk
user’s entry of 192.168.10.1/frontdesk” in their browser’s URL will redirect to http://192.168.10.1/platform.
cgi?page=billingDeskLogin.htm.
• Opening the Front Desk page from the same browser as the current admin session will not auto-redirect to the
correct page.
