Nortel Networks 4050 manual Captive portal and Exclude List, Customizing the portal and user logon

386 Chapter 9 Customizing the portal and user logon

Topic

Changing the portal colors using the SREM

Configuring custom content using the SREM

Configuring linksets using the SREM

Configuring links using the SREM

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Overview

The end user accesses the Nortel SNA network through the Nortel SNAS 4050 portal. You can customize the end user experience by configuring the following logon and portal features:

•“Captive portal and Exclude List” on page 386

•“Exclude List” on page 387

•“Portal display” on page 389

•“Portal look and feel” on page 389

•“Language localization” on page 392

•“Linksets and links” on page 394

•“Macros” on page 395

•“Automatic redirection to internal sites” on page 396

•“Examples of redirection URLs and links” on page 396

•“Managing the end user experience” on page 397

Captive portal and Exclude List

When the Nortel SNAS 4050 is configured to function as a captive portal, the Nortel SNAS 4050 acts as a DNS proxy while clients are in the Red VLAN. The captive web portal:

•accepts redirected HTTP/HTTPS requests from the clients

•resolves unknown names to a fixed IP address

•receives and manages communication requests from the clients to unauthorized network resources

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