Brocade Mobility RFS Controller System Reference Guide (Supporting software release 5.5.0.0 and later) - Manual (Page 626)

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The Captive Portal screen displays the configurations of existing policies. New policies can be
created, existing policies can be modified or existing policies deleted.
FIGURE 1 Captive Portal Policy screen
3. Refer to the following captive portal policy parameters to determine whether a new policy
requires creation, or an existing policy requires edit or deletion:
4. Select Add to create a new captive portal policy, Edit to modify an existing policy or Delete to
remove an existing captive portal policy.
Captive Portal Policy Displays the name assigned to the captive portal policy when initially created. A policy name cannot be
modified as part of the edit process.
Captive Portal Server Lists the IP address (non DNS hostname) of the external (fixed) server validating user permissions for the
listed captive portal policy. This item remains empty if the captive portal is hosted locally.
Captive Portal Server
Mode Lists each policy’s hosting mode as either Internal (Self) or External (Fixed). If the mode is Internal (Self),
the controller or service platform is maintaining the captive portal locally, while External (Fixed) means
the captive portal is being hosted on an external server resource.
Hosting VLAN
Interface Lists the VLAN (from 0 - 4,096) a client utilizes for controller or service platform interoperation when the
Captive Portal Server Mode is set to Centralized Controller.
Connection Mode Lists each policy’s connection mode as either HTTP or HTTPS. Both HTTP and HTTPS use the same
Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), so requesting clients can be identified. However. Brocade recommends
the use of HTTPS, as it affords transmissions some measure of data protection HTTP cannot provide.
Simultaneous Users Displays then number of users permitted at one time for each listed policy. A captive portal can support
from 0-8192 users simultaneously.
Web Page Source Displays whether the captive portal HTML pages are maintained Internally, Externally (on an external
system you define) or are Advanced pages maintained and customized by the network administrator.
Internal is the default setting.
AAA Policy Lists each AAA policy used to authorize captive portal access requests. When a captive portal policy is
created or modified, a AAA policy must be defined and applied to effectively authorize, authenticate and
account user requests for captive portal access.