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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 Managing SonicPoints

Before you can manage SonicPoints in the Management Interface, you must first:

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Verify that the SonicPoint image is downloaded to your SonicWALL security appliance. See “ Updating SonicPoint Firmware ” .

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Configure your SonicPoint Provisioning Profiles.

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Configure a Wireless zone.

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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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Assign an interface to the Wireless zone.

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Attach the SonicPoints to the interfaces in the Wireless zone.

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Test the SonicPoints.

SonicPoint Provisioning Profiles

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:

 

802.11a Radio		802.11g Radio		802.11n Radio
Enable 802.11a Radio	Yes - Always on	Enable 802.11g Radio	Yes - Always on	Enable 802.11n Radio	Yes - Always on
SSID	sonicwall	SSID	sonicwall	SSID	sonicwall-D790 (where D790 is an example; this is determined by the hardware address)
Radio Mode	54Mbps - 802.11a	Radio Mode	2.4 GHz 54Mbps - 802.11g	Radio Mode	2.4 GHz - 802.11n/ g/b Mixed
Channel	AutoChannel	Channel	AutoChannel	Channel	AutoChannel
ACL Enforcement	Disabled	ACL Enforcement	Disabled	ACL Enforcement	Disabled
Authentication Type	WEP - Both Open System & Shared Key	Authentication Type	WEP - Both Open System & Shared Key	Authentication Type	WEP - Both Open System & Shared Key
Schedule IDS Scan	Disabled	Schedule IDS Scan	Disabled	Schedule IDS Scan	Disabled
Data Rate	Best	Data Rate	Best	Data Rate	Best
Antenna Diversity	Best	Antenna Diversity	Best	Antenna Diversity	Best

To configure SonicPoint Profiles, see Configuring a SonicPoint Profile .