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Set Up Juniper Mist Edge and Configure the WLAN Template

After the initial Juniper Mist™ configuration is complete, you do not need to pre-stage the access point (AP). You can ship the AP directly to the employee’s house and be ready to serve clients within 20 seconds.

Juniper Mist Edge typically resides in the DMZ where one arm connects to the Internet and another arm connects to trusted corporate network. Before you configure the WLAN templates to enable the corporate SSID, you must complete the following tasks:

Table 1:
Task Refer to

Configure port connections and set up Juniper Mist Edge

Getting Started

Create the Juniper Mist Edge cluster

 Create a Mist Cluster

Create Mist tunnel

 Create Mist Tunnel (Organization Level)

Enable RADIUS proxy service

 Configure a RADIUS Server at the Organization Level

To configure the WLAN template:

  1. Configure WLAN template to enable a corporate service set identifier (SSID).
  2. From the left menu of the Juniper Mist portal, select Organization > WLAN Templates.
  3. In the WLAN Templates window, click Create Template.
  4. In the New Template window, enter Name and assign the template to Entire Org or Site and Site groups.
    Each remote home office site is placed into a Site Group called Remote Teleworker. If you prefer, you can place the entire organization in the site group and add physical office sites added as exceptions. For example, the following template is assigned to all Sites except Sites “BranchA,” and “BranchB.”
  5. Specify the security settings.

    SSID settings depend on your organization's requirements. The following image illustrates the configuration of the 802.1X secure WLAN.

  6. Specify the number of VLANs to be tunneled through the Edge appliance.
    A Juniper Mist access point (AP) does not tunnel a WLAN configured with an untagged VLAN.
  7. For an organization-level deployment, specify Custom Forwarding to Mist and select a tunnel profile from the Tunnel drop-down menu. The Mist tunnel must specify the same VLANs that you want to tunnel.
  8. For site-level deployment, specify Custom Forwarding to Site Edge. The Site tunnel must specify the same VLANs that you want to tunnel.