Nuclias Connect might be handle and administer through internet, both put in on a pc or server with Nuclias Connect software program, or utilizing the D-Link DNH-100 {hardware} Wi-Fi controller. The producer D-Link additionally has an app that may permit us to manage, handle and even set up new APs from the D-Link DAP vary simply and rapidly, it’s accessible for Android and iOS smartphones, you possibly can obtain it instantly from right here:
This Nuclias Connect utility for smartphones permits us obtain a Wi-Fi driver provisioning file, for later add it to the AP and add the skilled entry level to Nuclias instantly with our smartphone. We may instantly entry the administration and administration of the Wi-Fi controller, and even design a configuration to use to APs in standalone mode, the place they do not want the Wi-Fi driver.
In this tutorial that we current right now, we’re going to train you how we are able to simply register new APs that we don’t have configured. The necessities earlier than beginning this tutorial are as follows:
- We should have Nuclias Connect already configured, both on a pc / server with the software program, or instantly with the DNH-100. In this Nuclias Connect we’ve needed to create a «Site» and additionally a «Network», to later add the APs to this created community.
- The app should be put in on the smartphone.
- We should have entry to Nuclias Connect from the Wi-Fi community generated by the router or one other AP configured beforehand.
- We should have the AP unconfigured, and with firmware 2.zero onwards since it’s suitable with Nuclias Connect. Normally if in case you have purchased the AP not too long ago, you have already got this model.
Once we meet all these necessities, what we’ve to do are primarily two steps:
- Download provisioning file for new APs.
- Upload the provisioning file to the new APs to be added to Nuclias Connect.
These steps that you will notice beneath are precisely the similar if you happen to use Android as if you happen to use iPhone, since the app has precisely the similar configuration and show choices.
How to obtain the provisioning file from the Nuclias app
When opening the Nuclias utility, the very first thing we’ve to do is click on on «Quick setup«, Then we choose«Provisioning file»And a menu will seem indicating that it has not been discovered, and we can have a«Download profile«.
When we click on on «obtain profile», we must add Wi-Fi controller to app, placing the Wi-Fi controller IP tackle and port thus: 10.10.1.2:30001 (modifying the IP and the port particularly), and later the entry credentials. If you beforehand had the Wi-Fi controller configured, it is going to mechanically seem, and we merely should click on on it.
Now we must select each the “Site” and additionally “Network”, since it’s attainable that with the similar Wi-Fi controller we’re managing a number of websites, and inside the similar website, we’re managing a number of networks. Once we’ve chosen it, click on on “Download” to obtain it to our smartphone.
When we’ve already downloaded it, now we must add it to the new AP that it finds in the community.
Search for new APs and add the downloaded provisioning file
Now we return to the similar essential menu as earlier than, and click on on «Quick begin», we load the beforehand downloaded provisioning file, and the app will permit us to find the APs by way of L2 and additionally L3, simply as the similar does Wi-Fi controller (no matter whether or not it’s the Nuclias Connect software program, or through DNH-100). Once you discover it, we are going to merely should click on on it, enter the AP administration username and password, and click on on «Apply to all chosen APs».
Once we’ve achieved it, the utility will inform us that the configuration has been carried out efficiently, and we are able to see the AP or APs registered from the essential menu of Nuclias Connect.
As you’ve got seen, it’s very easy to register a brand new AP in the community, now it might solely be mandatory to hold out the particular configuration through the internet in Nuclias, and it is going to mechanically be deployed to all entry factors.
Configure APs in standalone mode with a brand new profile from the app
In case of not having a Wi-Fi controller, or not desirous to combine a selected AP into the controller, the app permits us to create a configuration from scratch in standalone mode with the fundamental configuration choices, to later enter its configuration through the internet and have all the superior choices.
To do that, we’ve to pick the third possibility from the essential menu, and the very first thing we must do is a configuration profile to later apply it. In the decrease proper half we are going to see the possibility “Configure entry level profiles”, click on there and then on the “+” to create a brand new configuration profile. Finally, we stock out a fundamental configuration of SSID, authentication and entry password.
Once that is achieved, we go to «Detect entry level«, We detect the APs, choose them, enter the AP’s entry credentials and click on on«Apply to all chosen APs«, And mechanically the configured standalone profile shall be uploaded to the entry factors.
As you’ve got seen, with this app we are able to simply combine a DAP entry level to Nuclias Connect, though we will need to have beforehand configured the Wi-Fi controller accurately, and ensuring that we’ve entry to the native community.