First login

First login

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This page covers the basic configuration tasks you probably want to complete after importing your old Control Center configuration into the new Wireless Orbit 2.0 Control Center.

For more information on the migration process, see the migration page in this wiki.

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Home

When you first log in, you'll see a welcome message and the Wireless Orbit Message of the Day (MOTD). The MOTD is updated periodically and will contain information about Wireless Orbit services, any problems you should be aware of, and so forth.

Settings

First, click on the Settings tab in the navigation toolbar over the welcome message. This will take you to a page covering some of the basic Control Center settings. For discussion of what the different settings mean, see the Home entry in this wiki.

The first thing you want to check is the Timezone setting. Select your local timezone and click Submit. You should see a status message telling you the settings were edited.

Login Portals

In order for your customers to use your gateways, you'll have to configure one or more login portals. Login portal settings control what your login portal looks like and what it does.

Click on the Login Portals link in the main menu (on the right side of the page). The page you see gives a little information about what login portals are, and the More Information link will take you to the wiki page on login portals. This is a pattern that's used throughout the Control Center.

Now click on the Add tab in the navigation toolbar along the top. This page will allow you to configure a new login portal. Note that there are a couple items that have no options available yet (Payment Gateway and Payment Plan for example).

Payment gateways are the payment processors that handle online payments (like PayPal or Authorize.net). If you want to be able to accept online payments you'll have to have an account with a payment gateway and then configure it in the Control Center.

Payment plans are how you set the prices for your services. We'll start out by creating a new payment plan.

Payment Plans

Click on the Payment Plans link in the main menu, and then click on the Add tab in the navbar. This is where we'll configure the first payment plan.

You can have however payment plans you want. Each plan defines a certain amount of service and a price.

  • Start out by entering something in the Name blank. This is how the payment plan will be identified in the Control Center. You're the only one that's going to be seeing this name, so make it something that's meaningful to you.
  • You can also enter a short description in the Description blank. This is just for you to make notes (for your own reference) about the payment plan.
  • The Signup Text is the label for this payment plan that your customers will see when they're signing up. They'll be using this text to choose which option out of all of your other payment plans they want. So this should be something like "5 hours for $5" or "Unlimited access for $20" or something like that.
  • The Account Class specifies what kind of account will be created when a customer signs up using this payment plan. This defines what bandwidth limits are applied to them, how much login time they get, and so forth.
  • The Account Class Multiplier indicates how many "units" of the account class the payment is for. So if the account class is for accounts with 1 month of usage and you enter "1" here, that's one month of usage for whatever price you set. If you enter a "2" here, then that's two months of usage. This is intended to make it easy for you to define different payment plans for the same account class: $1 for 1 month or $5 for 6 months, or whatever.
  • The Currency field defines what currency to charge in. Keep in mind that your payment gateway must support the currency you select.
  • The Price defines that amount to charge for this payment plan

After defining whatever values you want, click on Add to create the payment plan. You should see a summary of the plan you just created and a green status message telling you the plan was added.

Payment Gateways

Now click on Payment Gateways in the main menu, then Add in the navbar.

Select the kind of payment gateway you're using from the pulldown. You must have an existing account with the payment gateway provider. Click on Continue.

You will now have a short form to fill out. Depending on the payment gateway type you're using, you'll see some or all of the following:

  • The Payment Gateway Name blank is for whatever you want to call this entry.
  • The Merchant ID is your ID with the payment gateway provider. For PayPal Website Payments Standard, for example, this is the email address you use for your PayPal account
  • The Key/Token is the gateway key or token given to you by the payment gateway provider.
  • The Partner is the partner name for your PayPal Payflow account

Fill in the fields and then click on Add. You should get a summary page and a message saying the payment gateway was added.

Login Portals

Click on Login Portals in the main menu, then on Add in the navigation bar. You should now see that you have a pulldown for the Payment Gateway field and options in the Payment Plan selection. Let's create the login portal now. The fields are:

  • Login Portal Name is just a name for you to identify this configuration in the Control Center
  • Description is optional and is just for your own notes
  • Title is the title text that will appear at the top of the login portal
  • Greeting/Message is the greeting text
  • Logo Image and Signup Image won't have any options yet
  • Leave Allow Signups checked unless you want to disable online signups
  • Leave Terms of Service set to Paid unless you want to allow free signups (and only free signups) on this portal
  • From the Payment Gateway pulldown select the payment gateway you just configured above
  • Next to Payment Plan you should see two selection lists. The one on the left should be empty, and the one on the right should contain the payment plan you created above. You can use the arrows between the boxes (> and <) to move plans back and forth. Plans listed in the left box are not selected. Plans listed in the right box are selected.
  • The Language pulldown selects the default language for the login portal.

When you're done, click on the Add button to create the login portal. You should get a summary of the portal and a success message in green. Near the bottom is a View Portal link. Click on it to preview the portal. It will say Logins are disabled at this time but don't worry about that now---the portal has to be associated with a gateway before it can be used for logins.

Gateways

Now click on the Gateways link in the main menu, then on the List tab in the navbar. This will give you a list of all the gateways you have configured.

Select one that you want to set up, and click on the Edit button on its line.

The edit page will ask you to pick whether the gateway uses a static or dynamic IP address. Leave it set the way it is and click Continue. This will bring up the gateway editing screen. While here:

  • In the Type pulldown verify that the selected gateway type is correct.
  • In the RADIUS Profile pulldown select "Default"
  • In the Login Portal pulldown select the login portal you created above
  • Click on the Edit button to save your changes

Make a note of the Login Portal URL in the details. This is the URL you'll be entering into the captive portal configuration on your gateway. Consult the configuration documentation for your gateway type for more information about how to configure this.

RADIUS Profile

Click on the RADIUS Profile link in the gateway details page you got when you edited the gateway above. If you didn't just edit a gateway, just click on RADIUS Profiles in the main menu, select the List tab in the navbar, then click on the Details button next to the profile named Default.

You should see a RADIUS profile with nothing set except the name. Click on the Edit button. The fields are:

  • RADIUS Profile Name is just the name for the profile
  • Enabled is whether or not this profile is enabled. If the profile is disabled, the settings won't be used by anything.
  • Login Bump is an option controlling how to handle it if a user is already logged in and tries to log in again. See the RADIUS Profiles page for more information.
  • Idle Timeout is the length of time a session can be idle before it's automatically disconnected. This is optional.
  • Max Session Time is the maximum allowed length of a session. This is optional.
  • Secret Key is the RADIUS shared secret. Set this to whatever you want to use as your RADIUS secret key.

Click on Edit to save the changes.

You are now done with the basic Control Center configuration. From here you probably want to reconfigure your gateways to use the new Wireless Orbit 2.0 servers. For more information about how to do that, see the gateway reconfiguration article in this wiki.

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