Chapter 6 Tutorial

•Enter a subject line for the alert e-mails in the Mail Subject field. Choose a subject that is eye-catching and identifies the access point - in this example, “ALERT_Access_Point_A”.

•Enter the email address to which you want alerts to be sent (myname@myfirm.com, in this example).

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

•Click Apply.

6.3.4Configure 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 16 on page 84 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 6.3.2 on page 88.

5Set up e-mail logs as in Section 6.3.3 on page 89, but change the Mail Subject field so you can tell which AP the alerts come from (“ALERT_Access_Point_B”, etc.)

6.3.5Test the Setup

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

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