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Reading Time: < 1 minuteHP released the first public available HP Network Simulator software today. It was tested internally by the technical folks and is now available to everyone. You will find it here: http://www.hp.com/networking/hns The HP Network Simulator will create a virtual environment with Comware7 based network devices. It is very helpful for getting started with HP network equipment or … Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis time I would like to describe the configuration of a local MSM captive portal on the MSM controller with a remote authentication, using iMC UAM. For a better understanding of the principles, you should read this post: How To: MSM Local Captive Portal With Local Authentication I will reuse a lot from this post, … Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHP announced a the new HP 417 Walljack as a new AP for the Unified controller. This new Walljack is a single radios 2.4GHz radio which currently only works with the Unified controller. It also has 3 100BaseT ports for wired connection and has also 1 pass through port and therefore is a great solution for … Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn the last days, a new software version for the Unified WLAN controller was made available. This release supports the new HP 417 AP on the Unified WLAN controller. The Software is available on the product support page here: 830 830_5.20.R3507P26https://h10145.www1.hp.com/downloads/SoftwareReleases.aspx?ProductNumber=JG641A 850 and 870 850-870_5.20.R2607P26https://h10145.www1.hp.com/downloads/SoftwareReleases.aspx?ProductNumber=JG722A Unified WLAN Module 6000_5.20.R2507P27 and 6000_5.20.R2507P27H01https://h10145.www1.hp.com/downloads/SoftwareReleases.aspx?ProductNumber=JG639A You will also find the release notes on … Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHP announced the new HP 5700 switch as the new data center access switch. The switch supports IRF and is SDN ready. You can find the announcement here: http://h17007.www1.hp.com/us/en/networking/whats-new.aspx#.U_NThvmvX55 The switch is available in three different models: HP 5700-40XG-2QSFP+ Switch (JG896A) HP 5700-48XG-4XG-2QSFP+ Switch (JG894A) HP 5700-32XGT-8XG-2QSFP+ Switch (JG898A) For further details have a look at the … Read more
Reading Time: 6 minutesToday I would like to describe the UAM portal functionality. I will show it in combination with the unified controller, which still has the configuration from my last two how to’s for the unified controller. It would be very helpful for your understanding, reading those two posts: How To: Captive Portal With Local Authentication on … Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast week, the new MSM firmware was made available to the public. This new MSM firmware version is the first maintenance release of the 6.4.x branch. Please have a look into the release notes, which are are available here: http://h20566.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.BINARYPORTLET/public/kb/docDisplay/resource.process/?spf_p.tpst=kbDocDisplay_ws_BI&spf_p.rid_kbDocDisplay=docDisplayResURL&javax.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&spf_p.rst_kbDocDisplay=wsrp-resourceState%3DdocId%253Demr_na-c04403678-1%257CdocLocale%253D&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken I did the upgrade in my lab environment without any issues. For upgrading productive environments, … Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYou can now download a new version of iMC WSM (Wireless Service Manager). You can find the download link here: https://h10145.www1.hp.com/downloads/SoftwareReleases.aspx?ProductNumber=JF414AAE This feature will bring the new HTML 5 topology to the wireless topology. This looks great and is very fast. Below is a screen shot of the new view: There are also some bug … Read more
Reading Time: 7 minutesIn this post, I will describe the captive portal capabilities on the HP unified controller, using iMC and UAM for remote authentication. Please read my earlier post about captive portal and local authentication, as I will reuse most of the configuration. For this howto I use again the latest and greatest firmware: Prepare the Controller for Captive Portal … Read more
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