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1.2.0

Policy

Policy

You can define various policies for users to access and use the guest portal.

Payment Provider

Select the payment provider configured to enable credit card billing. See Credit Card Billing.

PMS Provider

Select the Hotel PMS provider configured in Hotel Property Management System (PMS) and select the currency to make the payment.

Access Plans

The access plan policy implements the usage and account policies for any self-service user account. The user account is created in FortiGuest as per the usage profile and account group mapped to the access plan. The default self -service and device registration plans are mapped to the default usage profile and account group. You can manage the access plans that the users accessing the guest portal are allowed to select.

  • Name and Description - Enter a unique name and description for your access plan.
  • Access plan type - Select whether the access plan is for Self Service, CC Billing, or PMS Billing.
  • Account group - Select a pre-defined account group. See Account Groups
  • Usage profile - Select a pre-defined usage profile. See Usage Profiles.
  • Pre-tax price - If your profile is assigned to a billing plan, then enter the price of your plan, prior to the applied tax.
  • Tax - Enter the percentage of tax you wish to charge.
Realm Policy

This policy selects the realms to use for authentication in the login page. The realms are defined in the Authentication Policies and are used to authenticate users against different external servers.

  • Allowed Realms - Select and add the realms for authentication.
  • Selection Mode - If the selection mode is Automatic, then each realm added in the Allowed Realms field is selected in the order in which it is listed. The realm selection starts from the first one and if authentication fails the next realm in the order is tried and so on. If the selection mode is Manual then the user is allowed to select the displayed realms in any order.

The first realm in the order is treated as a default realm, the default realm is selected by default when the user navigates to the login page in the manual Selection Mode.

Allowed Account Groups

Select the pre-configured account groups. See Account Groups

Username Policy

Configure the username policy. See Username Policy

Password Policy

Configure the password policy. See Password Policy.

Policy Details

Configure the policy details. See Policy Details.

Redirection Policy

Configure this policy to redirect the users are they login into the guest portal.

  • Show Acceptable Usage Policy to the user - Select the option to specify when the user has to accept the Acceptable Usage Policy after authentication.
  • Default page - The portal page that the guests are redirected to after they login into the network for the first time.
  • After authentication Redirect To - The configured portal page where the user is redirected to after successful portal authentication.
  • First success page - The configured portal page that the first time users are taken to after successful authentication.
  • Success page - The configured portal page that the returning users are taken to after successful authentication.

Policy

You can define various policies for users to access and use the guest portal.

Payment Provider

Select the payment provider configured to enable credit card billing. See Credit Card Billing.

PMS Provider

Select the Hotel PMS provider configured in Hotel Property Management System (PMS) and select the currency to make the payment.

Access Plans

The access plan policy implements the usage and account policies for any self-service user account. The user account is created in FortiGuest as per the usage profile and account group mapped to the access plan. The default self -service and device registration plans are mapped to the default usage profile and account group. You can manage the access plans that the users accessing the guest portal are allowed to select.

  • Name and Description - Enter a unique name and description for your access plan.
  • Access plan type - Select whether the access plan is for Self Service, CC Billing, or PMS Billing.
  • Account group - Select a pre-defined account group. See Account Groups
  • Usage profile - Select a pre-defined usage profile. See Usage Profiles.
  • Pre-tax price - If your profile is assigned to a billing plan, then enter the price of your plan, prior to the applied tax.
  • Tax - Enter the percentage of tax you wish to charge.
Realm Policy

This policy selects the realms to use for authentication in the login page. The realms are defined in the Authentication Policies and are used to authenticate users against different external servers.

  • Allowed Realms - Select and add the realms for authentication.
  • Selection Mode - If the selection mode is Automatic, then each realm added in the Allowed Realms field is selected in the order in which it is listed. The realm selection starts from the first one and if authentication fails the next realm in the order is tried and so on. If the selection mode is Manual then the user is allowed to select the displayed realms in any order.

The first realm in the order is treated as a default realm, the default realm is selected by default when the user navigates to the login page in the manual Selection Mode.

Allowed Account Groups

Select the pre-configured account groups. See Account Groups

Username Policy

Configure the username policy. See Username Policy

Password Policy

Configure the password policy. See Password Policy.

Policy Details

Configure the policy details. See Policy Details.

Redirection Policy

Configure this policy to redirect the users are they login into the guest portal.

  • Show Acceptable Usage Policy to the user - Select the option to specify when the user has to accept the Acceptable Usage Policy after authentication.
  • Default page - The portal page that the guests are redirected to after they login into the network for the first time.
  • After authentication Redirect To - The configured portal page where the user is redirected to after successful portal authentication.
  • First success page - The configured portal page that the first time users are taken to after successful authentication.
  • Success page - The configured portal page that the returning users are taken to after successful authentication.