Configuring Ruckus Zone Director Gateway

This chapter describes how to configure Ruckus Zone Director.
Before proceeding further with the configuration, you need to have a Network Station with a domain and a gateway as described in Adding a New Gateway

Prerequisites

Network Station gateway configured with Ruckus Zone Director hardware type

Now inside Network Station, select your Gateway, click the dropdown menu, choose Edit.
Expand the General Data session.
In the Hardware Type field, choose Ruckus Zone Director.

Accessing the Controller

Access your Ruckus Zone Director with your credentials or use the credentials Ruckus provided you with.

The first step is to configure access to the RADIUS server and accounting. After that, you need to configure the hotspot service and, finally, the WLAN for the hotspot service.

Configuring the Radius Server

The first step is to configure an IP address in your Ruckus Zone Director according to your local network.

Step 1

Click the Services & Profiles tab on the left, then click AAA Servers. Click +Create and specify a name. In the Type field, check the Radius checkbox, then in the Auth Method field, check PAP as shown Figure Radius

Enter the details as follows:

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

Figure Radius

Step 2

Once completed, click the OK button

Configuring the Radius Accounting

Step 1

Click the Services & Profiles tab on the left, then click AAA Servers. Click +Create and specify a name

Step 2

In the Type field, check the Radius Accounting checkbox as shown Figure Radius Accounting
Enter the details as follows:

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

Figure Radius Accounting

Step 3

Once completed, click the OK button to save.

Configuring the Hotspot Services

Step 1

Now you need to configure the Hotspot Services. Click the Services & Profiles tab on the left and then select the Hotspot Services menu. Click the +Create link and specify the name for the Hotspot service as shown Figure Hotspot Services

Step 2

In the Login Page field enter the Network Station Welcome Portal URL where the guests will be redirected to (the URL looks like http://Network Station_IP_OR_DOMAIN/mtlogin.php?domain=domain-name-created-inside-Network Station&hotspotname=name-of-the-hotspot-created-inside-Network Station).

Step 3

Enable the Session Timeout and set the Terminate user session after field to X minutes, for example 60 minutes

Figure Hotspot Services

Step 4

In the Authentication Server field select the radius name created in the Configuring the Radius Server chapter

Step 5

In the Accounting Server field select the radius name created in the Configuring the Radius Accounting chapter.

Configuring the WLAN

Step 1

Click the Wireless WLANs tab on the left.

Step 2

Click +Create, then specify a SSID for your wireless network.

Step 3

In the Type field check Hotspot Services WISPr as shown Figure WLANs

Step 4

In the Hotspot Services you need to select the Hotspot service previously created in the previous Configuring the Hotspot Services chapter.

Figure WLANs

Step 5

Once completed, click the OK button to save.

The configuration is now complete. Now, if you connect to a Ruckus AP configured with ZoneDirector, you will be able to view the Network Station Welcom Portal.