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Organization of the Configuration Web:

System	AP	WDS	Utilities	Status
System Information	Overview	Overview	Admin Password	Overview
Network Settings	General	WDS Config	Config Save & Restore	Clients
Management Services	VAP Config		System Upgrade	WDS List
	Security		Reboot	Event Log
	Advanced
	Access Control

System

System > System Information

Fields "Name", "Description", and "Location" are used for menmonic purpose. It is recommended to have different values in each AP you have.
Time settings allow the NP725's system time synchronized with NTP server or manually set. When NTP server used, NTP server1 must be filled; And if FQDN (full qualified domain name) is used, the DNS server setting must also be activated.

System > Network Settings

LAN Interface configuration: Determine the way to obtain the IP address, by DHCP or manually set.
DHCP client: The option is provided when the users have a DHCP server in the wired or wireless network; Please make sure the network connectivity are correct. The following IP address/Netmask/Gateway setting should become no effect.
Static setting: Static setting is set these parameters manually. The basic parameters need to provide such as IP address, subnet mask and Gateway.
Primary and secondary DNS server: If any other hosts address of management service are given in FQDN format (Full qualified domain name), ensure at least one of these DNS server’s IP is correct.
Layer 2 STP: Depends on the configuration of the NP725(including wired and wireless settings), when it is configured to bridge several networks, we need enable STP.

System > Management Services

For easier maintenance, SNMP and remote syslog services are provided in the NP725. The NP725 will be managed remotely in a centralized manner.

SNMP: By enabling this SNMP service, the remote SNMP manager could obtain NP725's system status.
Syslog: By enabling this service, specify a remote syslog server which could accept system log messages from NP725 remotely, thus. By reading the syslog message in the remote server, review activities of all installed NP725s in the network.

AP > Virtual AP Overview

An overall status is collected in this page; as in the figure, the NP725 has 8 Virtual APs (VAP), each has its own settings. In the table, we can click on the "Advanced Setting" to have detailed configuration of these VAPs respectively.

AP > General Settings

The item in this page is for AP's RF settings and will be applied to all VAPs.

Normally, the available RF configurations can be illustrated as:

Mode	Channel	Rate	Power
Disable	NA	NA	NA
802.11b	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13	1M, 2M, 5.5M, 11M	Auto, Lowest, Low, Medium, High, Highest
802.11b+802.11g	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13	1M, 2M, 5.5M, 11M, 12M, 18M, 24M, 36M, 48M, 54M	Auto, Lowest, Low, Medium, High, Highest

However, due to RF regulation in different nation, available values in the above table differ.

AP > VAP Configuration

To enable each VAP in the NP725, we need to configure each VAP individually and the settings of each are collected as its profile.

Profile Setting: Enable or disable virtual AP settings.
Profile Name: Give the profile an identity for management purpose.
ESSID: Indicate the ESSID which the clients used to connect to the VAP. ESSID will determine the service type of a client which assigned to the specified VAP.
VLAN ID: The NP725 supports tagged VLAN. To enable VLAN function, each VAP needs a unique VLAN ID; valid values are from 1 to 4094.

AP > Security Settings

The NP725 supports various user authentication and data encryption in each VAP's profile, and thus we can depend on the needs to provide different service levels to clients. The security type includes:

None: No authentication required. This is the default setting ass shown in above figure.
WEP: Supports key length of 64/128/152 bits.
802.1X: Provides RADIUS authentication and enhanced WEP.
WPA-PSK: Provides shared key authentication in WPA data encryption.
WPA-RADIUS: Authenticate user by RADIUS in WPA data encryption.

AP > Advanced Wireless Settings

Mostly, the default settings should meet general requirements. If occasionally we need tune or debug the wireless network, we may take the following parameters for that purpose.

Beacon Interval: This interval specifies the time interval, in milliseconds. Between each beacon frame is transmitted. The default value is 100, valid from 100 to 500ms.
RTS Threshold: To control station access to medium and to alleviate this effect of the hidden node problem, we can tune this RTS threshold value. It should have a value among 1-2346 and is default to 2346.
Fragmentation Threshold: A frame larger than this threshold will be fragmented before the transmission. If significant numbers of collisions are occurring, we can try to take a smaller value of the fragmentation threshold to see if it helps.
Broadcast SSID: Disable this item will prevent the NP725 from broadcasting its SSID publicly.
Station Isolation: By enabling this item, all stations in the same NP725's coverage area can not communicate with each other.
WMM: To decide which data streams are most important and assign them a higher traffic priority, we may enable this feature. Its default value is "disable".
IAPP: To provide a better roaming capability for the stations among APs nearby the NP725, we can enable this item. Its default value is "disable".

AP > Access Control Settings

The NP725 supports various methods to authenticate clients from using wireless LAN. The default policy is unlimited connections without any authentication required. To restrict the station number of wireless connections, just change the Maximum number of stations to a desired number. For example, while the number of station is set to 20, only 20 stations are allowed to connect to this VAP.

For MAC ACL control, the supported methods include:

Disable: no MAC address check required.
Allow List: Deny all except allowed ones in the list.
Deny List: Allow all except denied ones in the list.
RADIUS ACL: Authenticate the associated MAC address by RADIUS.

The one selected in the Access Control Type is the activated policy while the rest ones will be omitted.

WDS

WDS > WDS Link Overview

The figure provides an overall status of all 4 WDS links.

Item: corresponding profiles of each WDS interface
Status: Enable or Disable the plan
MAC address: remote peer's MAC address
Security: Disable or WEP
Delete: Remove profiles by checkbox selection and click on Delete to remove them.
Edit: To change the individual settings of each WDS profile, click on Edit to modify the settings.

WLAN > WDS Link Settings

For each WDS link profile, we need remote peer's MAC address and the authentication method for establishing a connection to the peer.

WDS profile: Total 8 profiles available for NP725, take the drop-down menu to select one to configure.
WDS setting: Enable or Disable the specified WDS link
MAC Address of Remote AP: For each link, give the remote peer's MAC address here.
Path Cost of STP: An assigned weighted metric here will determine the best path for data flow.
Security: Set the encryption (WEP or None) of WDS link here.
None: No authentication required to establish the WDS link, not recommended.
WEP: Establish the WDS link in WEP authentication which must provide key length, format and the key itself respectively.

Utilities

Utilities > Change Password

The password will be verified before entering this Web interface. The login ID is "admin".

Utilities > Configuration Save / Restore

The settings of this AP can be backed up to a file. This file can be saved for future use. It can be used to duplicate settings to the other access points (backup settings and then restore in another AP).

Utilities > System Upgrade

Please make sure you have the correct firmware file. During firmware update, please, don't turn off the power. This may permanent damage this AP.

Utilities > Reboot

At this page, you can reboot this AP remotely.

Status

Status > System Overview

This section provides an overview of the system for the administrator.

System's overall status, for individual setting/status, we need check them in each configuration page.

The description of the table is as follows:

Item		Description
Firmware Version		The present firmware version.
System Name		The system name.
Device Time		The network time server that the system is set to align.
System Up Time		The system time is shown as the local time.
LAN Interface	MAC Address	The MAC address of LAN Interface
	IP Address	The IP address of the LAN Interface
	Subnet Mask	The Subnet Mask of the LAN Interface

RF Card	MAC Address	The MAC address of RF Card
	Band	The RF band(b or g) used
	Channel	The channel specified
Virtual AP Profiles	BSSID	Basic Service Set ID
	ESSID	Extended Service Set ID
	VAP	Virtual AP, the NP725 supports total 8 APs

Status > Associated Client Status

List all associated clients from all the VAPs. We can take this table to manage the clients and take the signal strength for debug purpose.

Status > WDS Link Status

List all WDS links. We can get the information about status, MAC address, signal strength , Tx power, Tx count and Tx errors of each WDS link.

Status > Event Log

Event log provides the system activities records. We can monitor the system status by checking this log.

In the log, normally, each line represent an event record; And in each line, there are 4 fields:

Date/Time: the time & date when the event happened
Hostname: Indicate which host records this event. Note that all events in this page are local event, so events of this field are all the same. However in remote syslog service, this field will help us to identify which event are from this NP725. Please refer to section Management Service.
Process Name (with square brackets): indicates the event generated by this running instance
Description: description of this event

To save the file locally or clear all the records, press Save or Clear button respectively.