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Chapter 9: Common Configuration Examples
• Mac
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OS X
• iPad
• iPhone
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• Android
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If one or more of these predefined OS objects satisfies your needs, you can skip this step.
Click Configuration > Advanced Configuration > Network Objects > OS Objects > New, enter the following, and then click Save:
Object Name: Type the name of the OS object. This is the name that appears in the OS Object drop-down list when you
configure a client classification policy in the User Profile dialog box.
To define the OS object, enter the following, and then click “Apply:”
OS Version: Choose one of the entries in the drop-down list, or click in the empty space at the top of the list and type the name
of an OS version. Because SmartPath APs use HTTP snooping to learn clients' operating systems, the OS version string that you
enter must match the version that appears in the user-agent field in HTTP request headers. Lists of user-agent strings for most OS
versions are available on-line.
Description: (optional) Type a useful description for the OS version.
To add another OS version, click “New,” either choose an existing OS version entry or create a new one, add an optional
description, and then click “Apply.” You can add up to 32 OS versions to a single OS object, and there can be up to 64 OS
objects per SmartPath AP.
Step 3: Create Device Domain Objects
SmartPath APs can learn device domain names during 802.1X/EAP user authentication when clients first go on the wireless
network. SmartPath APs learn the domain for users’ devices from the domain name that users enter when logging in with their
user name + domain name and password. SmartPath APs can discern the domain name when any of the following formats are
used:
domain\user _ name
user _ name@domain
host/user _ name.domain
Based on the ability of SmartPath APs to detect a specific domain name or the presence of any domain name, SmartPath APs can
classify client types and assign user profiles based on the result of that classification.
Click Configuration > Advanced Configuration > Network Objects > Device Domain Objects > New, enter the following, and then
click “Save:”
Object Name: Type the name of the device domain object. This is the name that appears in the Domain Name Object drop-down
list when you configure a client classification policy in the User Profile dialog box.
There are two predefined entries in the Domain Name drop-down list: Known and Unknown. When applied in a user profile
reassignment policy rule, they have the following meanings:
Known: When a rule specifies Known as the device domain, SmartPath APs apply the rule if they detect a domain name during
the 802.1X/EAP login process. The exact domain name is irrelevant.
Unknown: When a rule specifies Unknown as the device domain, SmartPath APs apply the rule if they do not detect any domain
name, perhaps because a user authentication method other than 802.1X/EAP is used that does not require users to submit a
domain name when logging in.
Choose one of the predefined entries in the drop-down list, or click the empty space at the top of the list and type the name of a
specific device domain, and then click “Apply.”