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Monitoring DHCP Authentication

You can monitor the status of the captive portal service, as described in Monitoring Services. You can check its status in the Grid Status widget and the Member Status widget on the Dashboard. For information about these widgets, see Dashboards.
You can also view the MAC addresses that were added to each MAC address filter, as described in Viewing MAC Address Filter Items.

Viewing DHCP Ranges and Filters

To view the newly created MAC address filters:

  1. From the Data Management tab, select the DHCP tab -> Filters tab. Grid Manager lists all the configured filters.
  2. You can select a filter and view or configure its properties, such as extensible attributes.

For more information about the filters and editing their properties, see Managing DHCP Filters.
To view the DHCP ranges and the newly added filters:

  1. From the Data Management tab, select the DHCP tab -> Networks tab -> Networks section -> network .
  2. Select the DHCP range you want to view and click the Edit icon.
  3. If the editor is in Basic mode, click Toggle Expert Mode.
  4. Click the Filters tab to view the filters.

To verify that the captive portal is the DNS server in the quarantine range:

  1. From the Data Management tab, select the DHCP tab -> Networks tab -> Networks section -> network.
  2. Select the quarantine DHCP range and click the Edit icon.
  3. In the DHCP Range editor, click the DHCP tab.

The captive portal IP address is listed in the DNS Servers table.