Hi, We are in the process of investigating options to provide WiFi access for visitors at our business.

[lhaslemore]

Hi, We are in the process of investigating options to provide WiFi access for visitors at our business. We have Aerohive NG and want to enable visitors at our site to easily connect to the WiFi for internet access without have to wait for someone to generate them a code. Our security team have said that we cant just have the WiFi open for anyone to connect and that visitors at a minimum need to come into our building to get an access code or something like that to gain access to the WiFi. We cant have random people outside or in neighbouring buildings leeching off our connection. 

What would you recommend for provisioning this access?

[lhaslemore]

Thanks Doug. That solution is perfect. So simple but fits the needs for exactly what we need to to.

[dparsons · Accepted solution]

Another approach to this is to setup accounts with different expiration dates. We have a list of PPSKs that are generated automatically once a year. The passphrase expire on Sunday Night on each week. If you did something like this you would have a list of codes one for each week that when a visitor came in you could give them the code and then it would expire at the end of the week. Since the code was generated in advance there would be no waiting. You can do one for each day if you really needed to but 52 codes are a lot easier to deal with than 365.

[ashley_finch]

Hello,

A WPA2 password for all guests I guess would meet the requirement, however a much better way would be to create a self registration SSID that returns a PPSK. They connect to the SSID, register their details and additionally these can be sent to an employee for approval. They then connect onto the SSID that they enter their key against. Keys can additionally be valid for a period of time.

https://thehivecommunity.aerohive.com/s/article/Self-Registration-PPSK-SSID-in-Hivemanager