Configuring portal Web server detection

About portal Web server detection

A portal authentication process cannot complete if the communication between the access device and the portal Web server is broken. To address this problem, you can enable portal Web server detection on the access device.

With the portal Web server detection feature, the access device simulates a Web access process to initiate a TCP connection to the portal Web server. If the TCP connection can be established successfully, the access device considers the detection successful, and the portal Web server is reachable. Otherwise, it considers the detection to have failed. Portal authentication status on interfaces of the access device does not affect the portal Web server detection feature.

You can configure the following detection parameters:

You can configure the device to take one or more of the following actions when the server reachability status changes:

Restrictions and guidelines

The portal Web server detection feature takes effect only when the URL of the portal Web server is specified and the device has a portal-enabled interface.

Procedure

  1. Enter system view.

    system-view

  2. Enter portal Web server view.

    portal web-server server-name

  3. Configure portal Web server detection.

    server-detect [ interval interval ] [ retry retries ] log

    By default, portal Web server detection is disabled.