all about networking
Reading Time: 9 minutesIn this post I will share my experience with controller discovery in the network. You will get many information on how the AP can discover the controller and what network requirements needs to be meet to do that. I will cover the following topics: Where to place the AP’s in the network How the discovery process … Read more
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn this post, I will share my MSM best practice tips, when using the controller. This is not a complete list but all the stuff I do first. From time to time I will update the post or create a complete new one, to stay up to date.So, let’s start now: 1. Which firmware to … Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday, I will share some Information about the new HP Cloud-Managed Networking Solution, which will be available in this Month (21.07.2014) to all customers. This Solution will consist of a controller in the Cloud and very easy to install AP’s. The main benefit, you do not have to buy a controller, which is especially for small to medium … Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfter 6 Month with Blogger (the Goolge blogging platform) I decided to move to my own Webspace and will from now on use WordPress for my postings. WordPress brings a lot of flexibility and I will enhance this site over time. After spending a whole day for migration, I hope that every post is migrated … Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn Mai, I was on a proof of concept in Grenoble and one of the coolest things was the Private VLAN function in Comware 7. It was really interesting to see how it works and how simple it is to separate hosts from each other.It works with a two-tier approach. There is a primary VLAN, … Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the old days, many people where using the Guest Management Tool or GMS together with the MSM Controller. This tool was a great piece of software to have a very simple way to create and manage guest accounts on MSM controller. For some larger companies, this tool was too simple. And for an environment … Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutesBefore I start with my post, I need to say sorry, as I missed my post in Mai due to heavy work load and three week abroad for a proof of concept with a customer. I simply couldn’t make it to write my post. My plan is to write two posts this month, to be … Read more
Reading Time: 9 minutesThis is the third and last post in this series. I will now show how I configured the IMC (Intelligent Management Center) with UAM (User Access Manager) to get all the magic working. In this post I will describe how to configure the following points: enable the BYOD functionality in UAM setup the Guest functionality … Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis is the second post in a series of posts to the topic of BYOD. This time I will describe the configuration of my Unified WLAN controller, which replaced my MSM controller. I still have my MSM controller in place, but I need to get familiar with the Unified Controllers. As in the first posts, I … Read more
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis is the first post, of a series of posts, explaining how I set up my BYOD environment at home, to get my guest onto the internet. The environment consists of IMC (Intelligent Management Center) with UAM (User Access Manager) Module and MSM (in the past) and Unified WLAN (which replaced the MSM controller some … Read more