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Deploying VAPs to a SonicPoint

In the following section you will group and deploy your new VAPs, associating them with one or more SonicPoint Radios. Users will not be able to access your VAPs until you complete this process:

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Grouping Multiple VAPs, page 487
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Creating a SonicPoint Provisioning Profile, page 488

Grouping Multiple VAPs

In this section, you will group multiple VAPs into a single group to be associated with your SoncPoint(s).

Step 1
In the left-hand menu, navigate to the SonicPoint > Virtual Access Point page.
Step 2
Click the Add Group... button in the Virtual Access Point Group section.
Step 3
Enter a Virtual AP Group Name .
Step 4
Select the desired VAPs from the list and click the -> button to add them to the group. Optionally, click the Add All button to add all VAPs to a single group.
Step 5
Press the OK button to save changes and create the group.

Creating a SonicPoint Provisioning Profile

In this section, you will associate the group you created in the “Grouping Multiple VAPs” section with a SonicPoint by creating a provisioning profile. This profile will allow you to provision settings from a group of VAPs to all of your SonicPoints.

Step 1
In the left-hand menu, navigate to the SonicPoint > SonicPoints page.
Step 2
Click the Add button in the SonicPoint Provisioning Profiles section.
Step 3
Click the Enable SonicPoint checkbox to enable this profile.
Step 4
In the Name Prefix field, enter a name for this profile.
Step 5
Select a Country Code from the drop-down list.
Step 6
From the 802.11 Radio Virtual AP Group pull-down list, select the group you created in the “Grouping Multiple VAPs” section .
Step 7
To setup 802.11g WEP or 802.11a WEP/WPA encryption, or to enable MAC address filtering, use the 802.11g and 802.11a tabs. If any of your VAPs use encryption, you must configure these settings before your SonicPoint VAPs will function.
Step 8
Click the OK button to save changes and create this SonicPoint Provisioning Profile.
Step 9
Click the Synchronize SonicPoints button at the top of the screen to apply your provisioning profile to available SonicPoints.

Your SonicPoint may take a moment to reboot before changes take place. After this process is complete, all of your VAP profiles will be available to wireless users through this SonicPoint.

Associating a VAP Group with your SonicPoint

If you did not create a SonicPoint Provisioning Profile, you can provision your SonicPoint(s) manually. You may want to use this method if you have only one SonicPoint to provision. This section is not necessary if you have created and provisioned your SonicPoints using a SonicPoint Profile.

Step 1
In the left-hand menu, navigate to the SonicPoint > SonicPoints page.
Step 2
Click the Configure button next to the SonicPoint you wish to associate your Virtual APs with.
Step 3
In the Virtual Access Point Settings section, select the VAP group you created in Grouping Multiple VAPs, page 487 from the 802.11g (or 802.11a) Radio Virtual AP Group drop-down list. In this case, we choose VAP as our Virtual AP Group.
Step 4
Click the OK button to associate this VAP Group with your SonicPoint.
Step 5
Click the Synchronize SonicPoints button at the top of the screen to apply your provisioning profile to available SonicPoints.

Your SonicPoint may take a moment to reboot before changes take place. After this process is complete, all of your VAP profiles will be available to wireless users through this SonicPoint.

Note
If you are setting up guest services for the first time, be sure to make necessary configurations in the Users > Guest Services pages. For more information on configuring guest services, refer to the SonicOS Enhanced Administrator’s Guide.