7 blackout mode, Blackout mode – Fortress Technologies ecure Wireless Access Bridge User Manual

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Fortress Bridge: Configuration

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To configure the default user authentication and device

state for authenticating devices:

1

Log on to the Bridge GUI

admin

account and select

SECURITY

SETTINGS

from the menu on the left.

2

In the

AUTHENTICATION

SETTINGS

frame, in

Auth Mode

,

ensure that

Local

authentication is enabled and that

Device

Auth

is selected under

AUTHENTICATION

OPTIONS

(refer to

sections 3.6.6.1 and 3.6.6.4, respectively).

NOTE:

You can

change the user

authentication and de-
vice state settings for
devices individually—
on the

DEVICE

AUTHEN

-

TICATION

screen, de-

scribed in Section 4.1.2.

3

Under

AUTHENTICATION

OPTIONS

, to the right of

Device Auth

:

™

check the box beside

with User Auth by default

to enable

user authentication for new devices by default. (This is
the default setting.)

or

™

clear the checkbox beside

with User Auth by default

to

disable user authentication for new devices by default.

4

Under

AUTHENTICATION

DEFAULTS

, in the

Device State

field,

select one of:

™

Allow

- the device will be allowed to connect.

™

Pending

- connection requires administrator action

(explicitly changing the device’s

Auth State

to

Allow

).

™

Deny

- the device is not allowed on the network.

5

Click

Apply

at the bottom of the screen.

NOTE:

When the

Bridge is in black-

out mode, you can tem-
porarily toggle front-
panel LEDs back on—to
use them during front-
panel configuration—by
pressing

SW1

on the

front panel.

3.7 Blackout Mode

The

BLACKOUT

MODE

setting on the Fortress Bridge globally

turns the front-panel LEDs on and off.

When

BLACKOUT

MODE

is

Enabled

, none of the front-panel

indicators will illuminate for any reason—except for a single,
initial blink (green) of less than half a second, at the beginning
of the boot process.

When

BLACKOUT

MODE

is

Disabled

(the default), the front-panel

LED indicators function normally.

Front-panel LED behaviors and their associated meanings are
covered in Section 5.6.

detail:

detail:

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