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About This Guide

Audience

Purpose

Document Conventions

Product Documentation

Documentation Updates

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

About This Guide

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This preface includes the following sections:

•Audience

•Purpose

•Document Conventions

•Product Documentation

•Documentation Updates

•Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

Audience

This guide is for network administrators who are implementing Cisco NAC Guest Server to provision guest access on their networks. Cisco NAC Guest Server works alongside Cisco NAC Appliance, Cisco Unified Wireless Networks and other Cisco Network Enforcement devices to provide the captive portal and enforcement point for guest access.

Purpose

The Cisco NAC Guest Server Installation and Configuration Guide describes how to install and configure the Cisco NAC Guest Server appliance. It describes the simple initial installation of the appliance via CLI and the configuration and administration of the Guest Access Portal through the web-based interface.

Document Conventions

Item	Convention
Indicates command line output.	Screen font
Indicates information you enter.	Boldface screen font
Indicates variables for which you supply values.	Italic screen font
Indicates web admin console modules, menus, tabs, links and submenu links.	Boldface font
Indicates a menu item to be selected.	Administration  > User Pages

Product Documentation

Table 1 lists documents are available for Cisco NAC Guest Server on Cisco.com at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6128/tsd_products_support_series_home.html

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Table 1 Cisco NAC Appliance Document Set

Document Title	Refer to This Document For Information On:
Release Notes for Cisco NAC Guest Server, Release 1.1.2	Details on the latest Cisco NAC Guest Server release.
Cisco NAC Guest Server Installation and Configuration Guide (this document)	Hardware information, initial installation, setup and configuration instructions for Cisco NAC Guest Server.
Cisco NAC Appliance Service Contract / Licensing Support	Information on service contract support, licensing support and RMA support for Cisco NAC Appliance, Cisco NAC Profiler and Cisco NAC Guest Server.
Cisco NAC Appliance Product Literature	Online inks to Ordering Guide Bulletins, Data Sheets, Q&A and Chalk Talk presentations
Cisco NAC Appliance - Clean Access Manager Installation and Configuration Guide Cisco NAC Appliance - Clean Access Server Installation and Configuration Guide	Configuration guides for the Clean Access Manager and Clean Access Server
Cisco Wireless LAN Controller Configuration Guide, Release 4.0	Configuration information for Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers

Documentation Updates

Table 2 Updates to Cisco NAC Guest Server Installation and Configuration Guide, Release 1.1

Date	Description
2/2/09	Added notes to Mapping to Active Directory Groups, page 5-8 and Mapping to LDAP Groups, page 5-9.
1/22/09	•Version updates for release 1.1.2. •Updated Re-Imaging the Appliance, page 2-6. •Added notes to Editing the Email Template, page 10-5 and Editing the SMS Template, page 10-6

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

For information on obtaining documentation, submitting a service request, and gathering additional information, see the monthly What's New in Cisco Product Documentation, which also lists all new and revised Cisco technical documentation, at:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/general/whatsnew/whatsnew.html

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