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Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this article I will show how to configure the transmit power for unified AP’s via the CLI, the web GUI on the controller and from iMC WSM. I decided to write this article because it is not that intuitive to configure the transmit power for unified AP’s, but this article will make it clear. … Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn this post I will explain the new UAM page push policy in iMC, which was introduced with the update to iMC 7.1. The UAM page push policy will make it easier to select the webpage which should be used for the authentication. The UAM page push policy will replace the portal selection in the … Read more
Reading Time: 6 minutesThis post will describe the process of installing your own iMC webserver certificate for the iMC webserver. We will create a certificate template for Windows Server 2008R2 and use this template for the certificate. This certificate is than exported and used as the iMC webserver certificate. Most of the information comes from the HP documentation on … Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis post will cover the topic of iMC license registration as I always get questions around this topic. To be able to register and activate the iMC license, you should have an account for the HPN MyNetworking portal. You can find the portal here: https://h10145.www1.hp.com/sso/index.aspx If you did not have an account register one before … Read more
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis time I would like to show, how to use the UAM captive portal with the MSM solution. As the MSM solution did not support the portal protocol, which is used to transfer all the necessary information from the UAM captive portal server to the access device, we have to use at least one Comware … Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn this post I will show, how to enhance the usage of the UAM portal authentication. This will enhance the usage for mobile endpoints and for desktop/laptop users. I add this configuration to my best practices and will encourage all of my peers to use this kind of UAM portal authentication configuration. I tested this … Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe new version is 7.1. Most of the modules are available with this version. There was also a switch released. The 5130 is the Comware7 version of the 5120. Yesterday, a new Version of iMC was released. The new version is version 7.1 and most of the modules are also available with this new version … 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: 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 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