Configuring Terminal Identification

Context

On a large- or medium-sized campus network, there are a large number of access terminals, which fall into various types, such as PCs, mobile phones, IP phones, printers, and IP cameras. This brings the difficulties in terminal management:

• The legacy network management system (NMS) can only display the IP and MAC addresses of access terminals. It cannot identify the type of each specific terminal, and therefore cannot manage network terminals in a refined manner.
• The administrator needs to manually configure different services and policies for different service terminals, so the service deployment is complex and operations are time-consuming.

To address these problems, Huawei iMaster NCE-Campus provides the terminal identification function. With this function, iMaster NCE-Campus can display terminal types and systems on the entire network, and collect statistics and display traffic based on terminal types. In addition, for dumb terminals that use MAC address authentication, such as IP phones, printers, and IP cameras, iMaster NCE-Campus implements automatic MAC address authentication and automatic policy provisioning, eliminating the need to manually add MAC accounts for each type of service terminals.

Configuration Tasks