Encryption options on a Lobby Ambassador implementation

Hi all,
I'm in the middle of configuring a guest wireless network using the lobby ambassador feature. I have things up and running using Open Encryption at L2 and WebAuth at L3 - The Controller doesn't like any L2 security that I try to add and I'm uneasy at just using WebAuth, has anyone implemented something similar? Were you able to add any kind of encryption?
Thanks,
Denis

By it's very nature, the WebAuth feature will not allow any encryption. This is a feature very much like a hot-spot that you'd see in a coffee shop. In order to allow any user to access the authentication splash page, the WLAN has to be completely open.
If security is required, then it really has to come from higher layers of the stack (ie, IPSEC, HTTPS, SSH, etc).
So to answer your question, yes I have implemented a number of Web Auth WLANs, and no, it is absolutely not possible to implement any kind of encryption on the WLAN.
Hope this helps!
Richard.

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Jozef

Hi Koti,
What error did you meet when you used audit report from Oct 16 to Oct 31?
Please check the log file to find more information about this issue. The path of the log file is: C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\LOGS. You can check the log file whose modified date is from Oct 16 to Oct 31.
In addition, please deactivate and reactivate Reporting feature at site collection level.
A similar post for your reference:
http://sharepointknowledgebase.blogspot.com/2012/07/unexpected-error-when-trying-to-view.html#.VG2cFouUeog
About audit log report, please take a look at:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Configure-audit-settings-for-a-site-collection-a9920c97-38c0-44f2-8bcb-4cf1e2ae22d2?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
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We are using WCS 7.0.164.0. I configured a user as local lobby ambassador with special defaults and also with a special guest login logo. If I use this user to create guest accounts everything is alright. Now I want to change the authentication to radius, so I export the cisco lobby ambassador attributes to the radius server and extend these network policies. Now I can login as user, authenticated from the radius server and I create guest accounts in the same way as before with local login, BUT !!! Our special guest login logo isn't shown and there is now way to upload or configure this special logo. Is there a way to configure these options for users authenticated with AAA ? Thanks for any Help Bernhard

Hi Bernhard,
I used following doc-link: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/customer/tech/tk722/tk809/technologies_tech_note09186a0080851f7c.shtml
The trick I used is to configure same username on tacacs+ and local, but different passwords.
local-user: configure your special attributes like logo
tacacs+: configure the authentication and group
local-user password is not the same like tacacs+ password.
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Enable fallback to local == on auth failure or no server response
Maybe if you deselect Enable fallback to local you can only authenticate to tacacs+. But now I can authenticate with local user/password and tacacs+ user/password.
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virtual-domain0=root
role0=LobbyAmbassador
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Hi all,
I am currently implementing the use of the lobby ambassador for guest account creation, however I am looking to see if some features exist. I would like to be able to tie into AD to create lobby ambassador's to have further control of who can and cannot create guest accounts. I am also looking if there is a way to put restrictions on the time frame a guest account can remain active for when created by the lobby ambassador. An example of what I am trying to do is to not have a guest account created by an ambassador to go over a day for it's time frame.
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Chris

Yes and yes. From WCS you can pull the role for lobby admin and use that to create the group with the proper attributes.
Then on the WCS you build the template you want them to use. There you can create the restrictions of how long.
Steve
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In WCS by default the lobby ambassador has option to generate manual or auto (random) password for guest user account.
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Regards,
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No not exactly ,
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Hello all,
If I am user "admin-ken" and I setup an guest user account "guestuser1" via the WCS controller templates > Guest User (which takes me into lobby ambassador), is there a log file that indicates that "admin-ken" had setup "guestuser1" guest account?
Many thx indeed,
Kind regards,
Ken

HiKen,
Hope all is well :)
Maybe this is what you are looking for;
Logging the Lobby Ambassador Activities
The following activities are logged for each lobby ambassador account:
â¢Lobby ambassador login: WCS logs the authentication operation results for all users.
â¢Guest user creation: When a lobby ambassador creates a guest user account, WCS logs the guest user name.
â¢Guest user deletion: When a lobby ambassador deletes the guest user account, WCS logs the deleted guest user name.
â¢Account updates: WCS logs the details of any updates made to the guest user account. For example, increasing the life time.
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Note You must have superuser status to open this window.
Step 1 Log into the Navigator or WCS user interface as an administrator.
Step 2 Click Administration > AAA, then click Groups in the left sidebar menu to display the All Groups window.
Step 3 On the All Groups windows, click the Audit Trail icon for the lobby ambassador account you want to view. The Audit Trail window for the lobby ambassador displays.
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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/wcs/4.2/configuration/guide/wcsmanag.html#wp1076868
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/technology/guest_access/technical/reference/4.1/GAccess_41.html#wp1001609
Hope this helps!
Rob

Logging the Lobby Ambassador Activities on WLC

Dear all,
we interested in "Logging the Lobby Ambassador Activities on WLC",
we found resusurces that explain hot to do this using WCS, but we want to konw if it's
possible without WCS.
More in general, we give the possibilities to oue employee to create guest account, using
the Radius to autenticate as Lobby Admin.
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I can't figure out if it's possible to standardize the configuration for Guest User creation for users who are authenticated using RADIUS and assigned to the Lobby Ambassador group.
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Prime Lobby Ambassador defaults scheduling guest users

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I'm actually testing Prime Infrastructure and one important thing there for me is the Lobby Ambassador feature.
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I'm using RADIUS so my users can use their active directory credentials to login WCS and generate guest users accounts...
But I would like to setup some Lobby Ambassador Defaults, I can easily do ths for local users on the WCS system, but how to setup defaults for RADIUS users?
Best Regards,
Steffen.

Hi Scott
Tanks for your reply.
I've allready read the article, but I can't see that it says anything about setting up Defaults for the users, only which task the should be able to do...
I would like to setup defaults for the radius users, so when they are authenticated as lobby abassadors the do not need to select which SSID the a generating a guest user account for and so on...
This is possible for local WCS users, but i need to setup these defaults for my RADIUS authenticated users.
Best Reards
Steffen
And btw.. this dicussion was started by me.. https://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/2115616

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