Gateway & AP – Set-Up Guide
Configuring Ruckus VSCG Gateway

This chapter describes how to configure Ruckus VSCG.
Before proceeding further with the configuration, you need to configure HSNM with a domain and a gateway as described in Adding a New Gateway.

Prerequisites

  • HSNM gateway configured with Ruckus VSCG hardware type
  1. Now inside HSNM, select your Gateway, click the dropdown menu, choose Edit.
  2. Expand the General Data session.
  3. In the Hardware Type field, choose Ruckus VSCG.

Accessing the Controller

Access your Ruckus VSCG Portal with your credentials or by using the credentials Ruckus provided you with.

Configuring the Hotspot Service

Step 1

Click the Configuration tab at the top, then click Hotspot (WISPr) on the left. Click Create New to create a new Hotspot Profile.

Step 2

In General Options, specify the “Portal Name” and the “Portal Description”.

Step 3

In Redirection, tick “Enable” in the Smart Client Support and “External” in the Logon URL. In the “Redirect unauthenticated user to the URL for authentication” field, enter the Appliance Welcome Portal URL where the end user wil be redirected (the URL will be like http://IP_OR_DOMAIN_TO_REACH_HSNM/portal/index.php?domain=DomainNameCreatedOnAppliance&hotspotname=GatewayNameCreatedOnAppliance).

Step 4

In User Session, you can either change the “Session Timeout” and “Grace Period” or maintain the default values.

Adding the Walled Garden

Step 1

Expand the menu of the Walled Garden by clicking the + icon.

Step 2

Add one by one the walled garden you need for social login, payments, etc.

Step 3

Click Apply to save the entry.

To know the accurate and relevant Walled Garden you need to add one by one, access your HSNM platform and click the  contextual dropdown menu of your gateway. Select Download Walled Garden to get a .txt file with your accurate walled garden list as shown Figure Download Walled Garden.

Figure Download Walled Garden

Configuring the Radius Server

Step 1

Click the Configuration tab at the top, then click AAA Servers on the left and scroll down to Non-   proxy AAA.

Step 2

In the “Authentication Service” section, click Create New and specify a name and a description.

Step 3

In the Type field, check the Radius checkbox.

Step 4

In the Primary Server menu, enter the details as follows:

  • IP Address ­­– Enter the IP used to reach HSNM
  • Port – Enter 1812
  • Shared Secret – Enter the radius secret that you have set in the System Settings of your HSNM

Step 5

Once completed, click the OK button.

Configuring the Radius Accounting

Step 1

Click the Configuration tab at the top. In the “Accounting Service” section, click Create New and specify a name and a description.

Step 2

 In the Primay Server menu, enter the detals as follows:

  • IP Address ­­– Enter the IP used to reach HSNM
  • Port – Enter 1813
  • Shared Secret – Enter the radius secret that you have set in the System Settings of your HSNM

Step 3

Once completed, click the OK button.

Configuring the WLAN

Step 1

Click the Configuration tab at the top and then click WLANs on the left.

Step 2

Click Create New in the “WLAN Configuration” section.

Step 3

Then, specify a name, SSID and description for your wireless network that you will configure on your Ruckus AP.

  • In WLAN Usage, check “Hotspot (WISPr)” in the Authentication Type
  • In Authentication Options, check “Open” in the Method
  • In Encryption Options, check “None” in the Method

Step 4

In Hotspot Portal, select the Hotspot (WISpr) Portal created in “Configuring the Hotspot Service”. Then, disable the Bypass CNA option and both the “Use the Controller as Proxy” checkboxes below. Now, select the AAA Server previously created in “Configuring the Radius Server”.

Step 5

To save the entries, click the OK button.

Step 6

Click the WLANs menu on the left and then click Create New in the “WLAN Groups” section. Specify a name and a description.

Step 7

Expand the WLAN List below, find and select the “WLAN Name” that you have just created.

Step 8

Once completed, click the Apply button.

Configuring the Ruckus AP

Step 1

Install the latest firmware to your AP so that you can configure your Ruckus AP (like Ruckus R300, R500 or R600 etc) and connect to Ruckus VSCG controller.

Make sure that it is is configured as a “Stand Alone” AP.

Step 2

Connect via web to the IP of your AP (generally 192.168.0.1) and from the Configuration section on the left, select Internet.

Step 3

In the IPv4 Connection Type field, check “Static IP”. Below, set an IP by entering the relevant details according to your network configuration.

Step 4

Now connect the Ruckus AP to your network. Login through SSH and run this command in order to configure it with Ruckus VSCG controller:

  • set scg ip IP_VSCG     (example “set scg ip 192.168.100.1)

Make sure that the Ruckus AP is able to reach Ruckus VSCG.

Step 5

Go back to Ruckus VSCG web configuration. Click the Configuration tab at the top and then click the Access Point menu on the left.

Step 6

Scroll down to APs and click. Now you can view the list of all the APs managed by VSCG.

Step 7

Order the list by clicking on the “Registered on” column. In this way, your AP will be the first to be displayed.

Step 8

Now click the corresponding “MAC Address” of your AP.

Step 9

In the Radius Option section, enable the two “WLAN Group” checkboxes and select the “WLAN Group” previously created in “Configuring the WLAN”, Step 3.

Once saved, you have completed your configuration. Now, you can connect a device to the WiFi network of the Ruckus Access Point and you will be redirected to the HSNM Welcome Portal.