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•In the Send Immediate Alert section, select the events you want to trigger immediate e- mails. Ensure that Rogue AP is selected.

•Click Apply.

4.3.4Configure Your Other Access Points

Access point A is now configured to do the following.

•Scan for access points in its coverage area every ten minutes.

•Recognize friendly access points from a list.

•Send immediate alerts to your email account if it detects an access point not on the list.

Now you need to configure the other wireless access points on your network to do the same things.

For each access point, take the following steps.

1From a computer on the wired network, enter the access point’s IP address and login to its Web configurator. See Table 5 on page 62 for the example IP addresses.

2Import the friendly AP list. Click ROGUE AP > Configuration > Browse.... Find the “Flist” file where you previously saved it on the network and click Open.

3Click Import. Check the ROGUE AP > Friendly AP screen to ensure that the friendly AP list has been correctly uploaded.

4Activate periodic rogue AP detection. See Section 4.3.2 on page 65.

5Set up e-mail logs as in Section 4.3.3 on page 66, but change the Mail Subject field so you can tell which AP the alerts come from (“ALERT_Access_Point_B”, etc.)

4.3.5Test the Setup

Next, test your setup to ensure it is correctly configured.

•Log into each AP’s Web configurator and click ROGUE AP > Rogue AP. Click Refresh. If any of the MAC addresses from Table 6 on page 63 appear in the list, the friendly AP function may be incorrectly configured - check the ROGUE AP > Friendly AP screen.

If any entries appear in the rogue AP list that are not in Table 6 on page 63, write down the AP’s MAC address for future reference and check your e-mail inbox. If you have received a rogue AP alert, email alerts are correctly configured on that ZyXEL Device.

•If you have another access point that is not used in your network, make a note of its MAC address and set it up next to each of your ZyXEL Devices in turn while the network is running.

Either wait for at least ten minutes (to ensure the ZyXEL Device performs a scan in that time) or login to the ZyXEL Device’s Web configurator and click ROGUE AP > Rogue AP > Refresh to have the ZyXEL Device perform a scan immediately.

•Check the ROGUE AP > Rogue AP screen. You should see an entry in the list with the same MAC address as your “rogue” AP.

•Check the LOGS > View Logs screen. You should see a Rogue AP Detection entry in red text, including the MAC address of your “rogue” AP.

•Check your e-mail. You should have received at least one e-mail alert (your other ZyXEL Devices may also have sent alerts, depending on their proximity and the output power of your “rogue” AP).

 

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