Adding MAC Registration Lists
You can add MAC registration lists to authenticated the devices based on MAC address.You can configure the expiration for the entries as: Never expire, By date, and After, and also configure to automatically clean the expired entries.
Complete the following steps to add MAC
registration lists.
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In the navigation bar, click Network Control > Policies & Profiles.
The Policies & Profiles page is displayed.
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In the Policies &
Profiles page, click MAC Registration tile
and click Add MAC Registration List. Alternatively, in
the Policies & Profiles page, click Add Policy or
Profile then select the MAC Registration
tile, and click Next.
The Add MAC Registration List page is displayed.
- Enter MAC registration list name.
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For List Expiration, choose one from the following
options.
- Never expires
- By date: Select an expiration date
- After: Select a time interval (in Hours, Days, Weeks, Months, or Years.
- (Optional) Select the Automatically clean expired entries option. This option is selected by default.
- (Optional) Under Adaptive Policy Set, select an adaptive policy set from the list or you can add MAC addresses after you create the MAC Registration List, refer to Step10.
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Click Apply to save the
changes.
The created MAC Registration Lists is displayed in the table.
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Click created <MAC Registration List
name> on the Name column.
The <MAC Registration List name> details page is displayed.
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Click MAC Registrations tab.
The MAC Registrations page is displayed.
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You can add new MAC addresses or import the MAC addresses to the created
MAC Registration Lists.
- Follow below steps to add new MAC address:
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Click Add MAC Address. The Add MAC
Address dialog box is displayed.
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Complete the following fields:
- MAC Address: Enter the MAC address.
- Username: Enter the username.
- E-mail: Enter the e-mail ID.
- MAC Address Expiration Date: Set the MAC address expiration duration as Never Expires or click By date and set an expiration date.
- Click Add.
- Follow below steps to import MAC address:
- Click Import from File. The Import from File dialog box is displayed.
- Click Download template to download the template.
- Using a spreadsheet program, open the CSV file.
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Complete the following fields to add the MAC addresses:
- MAC Address: Enter the MAC address.
- Username: Enter the username.
- E-mail: Enter the e-mail ID.
- MAC Address Expiration Date: Enter an expiration date.
- Device Name: This is optional, enter name of the device.
- Location: This is optional, enter location of the device.
- Save the CSV file.
- In the Import from File dialog box, click Browse, and then locate the CSV file, and then click Open. Alternatively, drag and drop the CSV file to the gray box in the Import from File dialog box.
- Cick Import.