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Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide

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April 2015

Section 4 - Managing the Access Point

If you use RADIUS MAC authentication for MAC-based access control, you must congure a station list on the

RADIUS server. The station list contains client MAC address entries, and the format for the list is described in the

following table.

RADIUS Server Attribute Description Value

User-Name (1) MAC address of the client station. Valid Ethernet MAC Address.

User-Password (2) A xed global password used to

lookup a client MAC entry.

NOPASSWORD

Table 31 - RADIUS Server Attributes for MAC Authentication

Conguring Load Balancing

You can set network utilization thresholds on the UAP to maintain the speed and performance of the wireless network

as clients associate and disassociate with the AP. The load balancing settings apply to all supported radios.

To congure load balancing and set limits and behavior to be triggered by a specied utilization rate of the access

point, click the Load Balancing tab and update the elds shown in the following gure.

Figure 29 - Modify Load Balancing Settings

Field Description

Load Balancing Enable or disable load balancing:

To enable load balancing on this AP, click Enable.

To disable load balancing on this AP, click Disable.

Utilization for No

New Associations

Provide the percentage of network bandwidth utilization allowed on the radio before the AP

stops accepting new client associations.

The default is 0, which means that all new associations will be allowed regardless of the

utilization rate.

Table 32 - Load Balancing

Note: After you congure the load balancing settings, you must click Apply to apply the changes

and to save the settings. Changing some settings might cause the AP to stop and restart system

processes. If this happens, wireless clients will temporarily lose connectivity. We recommend that

you change AP settings when WLAN trafc is low.

Managed Access Point Overview

The UAP can operate in two modes: Standalone Mode or Managed Mode. In Standalone Mode, the UAP acts as

an individual AP in the network, and you manage it by using the Administrator Web User Interface (UI), CLI, or SNMP.

In Managed Mode, the UAP is part of the D-Link Unied Wired and Wireless System, and you manage it by using

the D-Link Unied Wireless Switch. If an AP is in Managed Mode, the Administrator Web UI, Telnet, SSH, and SNMP

services are disabled.

On the UAP, you can congure the IP addresses of up to four D-Link Unied Wireless Switches that can manage it. In

order to manage the AP, the switch and AP must discover each other. There are multiple ways for a switch to discover

an AP. Adding the IP address of the switch to the AP while it is in Standalone Mode is one way to enable switch-to-AP

discovery.