Hello WatchGuard Wi-Fi Cloud Users, We are planning a brief maintenance on Sunday, July 30, 2017 between 1:00AM and 6:00AM Pacific Time to deploy improvements to the Wi-Fi Cloud. During the maintenance window, the Wi-Fi Cloud services will be down for maintenance (approximately 2 hours) including Manage, Go, Engage, and Analyze modules. Your access points will continue to pass client traffic and will not be interrupted. Enhancements are:
- Role-Based Control Use role profiles to enforce restrictions (VLAN assignments, Bandwidth controls, Firewall rules, redirection URLs) on users/clients.
- Google Integration and Device Authentication Integrate with Google for user authentication, device authorization, and role profile assignment.
- RADIUS MAC Authentication Use RADIUS for client authorization and role profile assignment.
- Unified Client Steering Enhancements to band steering, roaming support, and load balancing to optimize client load and band utilization across APs.
- Application Firewall Create rules to allow or block specific applications on an SSID.
- MAC Address Blacklist / Whitelist Create a list of whitelist/blacklist MAC addresses for an SSID.
- Enhanced Auto Channel Selection Minimize interference from other APs and from non-Wi-Fi sources to optimize your wireless radio environment.
- Improved Smart Device detection Improved detection of smart devices and operating systems of clients.
- Automatic VLAN Monitoring Automatically monitor VLANs added by an SSID or your own user-configured VLANs.
- Broadcast / Multicast Control Block broadcast/multicast packets on your wireless network and create exemptions for specific applications (Video, Bonjour, etc.)
- IGMP Snooping Optimize multicast video streaming traffic.
- Engage / Analyze Enhancements Marketing opt-in and opt-out options for portal plug-in settings. Track Twitter Follows and Facebook Likes from your portal.
Learn how to upgrade your AP firmware > If you have any questions regarding the update, please visit www.watchguard.com/support Regards, WatchGuard Wi-Fi Cloud Team
