SonicWALL SonicPoints are wireless access points specially engineered to work with SonicWALL security appliances to provide wireless access throughout your enterprise. The SonicPoint section of the Management Interface lets you manage the SonicPoints connected to your system.
In addition to describing the settings available for managing SonicPoints in SonicOS Enhanced, this chapter contains a best practices guide for deploying SonicPoints in your network.
See “SonicPoint Deployment Best Practices” .
Before you can manage SonicPoints in the Management Interface, you must first:
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Assign profiles to wireless zones. This step is optional. If you do not assign a default profile
for a zone, SonicPoints in that zone will use the first profile in the list.
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SonicPoint Provisioning Profiles provide a scalable and highly automated method of configuring and provisioning multiple SonicPoints across a Distributed Wireless Architecture. SonicPoint Profile definitions include all of the settings that can be configured on a SonicPoint, such as radio settings for the 2.4GHz and 5GHz radios, SSID’s, and channels of operation.
Once you have defined a SonicPoint profile, you can apply it to a Wireless zone. Each Wireless zone can be configured with one SonicPoint profile. Any profile can apply to any number of zones. Then, when a SonicPoint is connected to a zone, it is automatically provisioned with the profile assigned to that zone.
SonicOS includes a default SonicPointN profile, named SonicPointN. You can modify this profile or create a new one.
The default SonicPointN profile has the following settings:
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Enable 802.11a
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Enable 802.11g
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Enable 802.11n
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54Mbps - 802.11a |
2.4 GHz 54Mbps - 802.11g |
2.4 GHz - 802.11n/ g/b Mixed |
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Authentication
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WEP - Both
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Authentication
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WEP - Both
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Authentication
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WEP - Both
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Schedule IDS Scan |
Schedule IDS Scan |
Schedule IDS Scan |
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To configure SonicPoint Profiles, see Configuring a SonicPoint Profile .