Third-Party Captive Portal Solutions
Instead of using the Fortinet Captive Portal solution, you can use a third-party solution; you cannot use both. Companies such as Bradford, Avenda, and CloudPath all provide Captive Portal solutions that work with FortiWLC (SD) 4.1 and later. There are two places that you need to indicate a third-party captive portal solution, in the corresponding Security Profile and in the Captive Portal configuration.
Configure Third-Party Captive Portal With the Web UI
Indicate that a third-party Captive Portal solution will be used in the Security Profile by setting Captive Portal Authentication Method to external. For complete directions, see Configure a Security Profile With the Web UI.
Indicate that a third-party Captive Portal solution will be used in the Captive Portal configuration by setting Captive Portal External URL to the URL of the Captive Portal box:
Third-Party Captive Portal Solutions
- Click Configuration > Security > Captive Portal.
- Change the value for CaptivePortal External URL to the URL of the third-party box.
- Click OK.
Configure Third-Party Captive Portal With the CLI
Configure an SSL server before configuring third-party captive portal in the security profile. For example, example of SSL server configuration:
controller1# show ssl‐server Captive Portal
Name : Captive Portal
Server Port : 10101
User Authentication Protocol : None
Server Lifetime : 100
Server IP : 172.18.37.223
Certificate :
Authentication Type : radius Primary Profile : IDAU1721946201
Secondary Profile :
Primary Profile : IDAC1721946201 Secondary Profile :
Accounting Interim Interval (seconds) : 60
CaptivePortalSessionTimeout : 0 CaptivePortalActivityTimeout : 0 Protocol : https
Portal URL :
CaptivePortal External URL : https://172.19.46.201/portal/
172.18.37.223?meruInitialRedirect
CaptivePortal External IP : 172.18.37.223
L3 User Session Timeout(mins) : 1
Apple Captive Network Assistant (CNA) Bypass : on Example of configuring SSID with external captive portal:
controller1# configure terminal controller1(config)# security‐profile CPExternal
controller1(config‐security)# captive‐portal‐auth‐method external controller1(config‐security)# passthrough‐firewall‐filter‐id IDMAUTH controller1(config)# essid CaptivePortal‐External
controller1(config‐essid)# security‐profile CaptivePortal‐External controller1(config‐essid)# end
Third-Party Captive Portal Solutions
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