CoovaEWT, Ubiquiti, and CoovaRADIUS 1 Working with CoovaEWT, Ubiquiti, and CoovaRADIUS

Our latest rmware release for Ubiquiti Routers, based on the Ubiquiti SDK, is now available. Coova has added CoovaChilli, our open-source access controller, and has made it congurable using CoovaEWT.

After ashing your router with our rmware, under the Services tab you will see the above message. To access the CoovaEWT user interface, you need to use one of our CoovaEWT Client applications. To make it easy, a link is provided to a Java Web Start application. Clicking on the Web Start link will have your computer download the CoovaEWT client application on-line and start it up right away.

When running, a window showing the Coova icon will appear. Kill this window to stop the program.

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CoovaEWT, Ubiquiti, and CoovaRADIUS After clicking on the WebStart link, your browser will download and start the CoovaEWT Desktop application. It will also automatically send your browser to the EWT Browser page with the URL for the Ubiquiti page you were at already lled in. Enter in your Ubiquiti administrator username and password (both the default ubnt in our case), and then click Go.

When accessing the Ubiquiti conguration page using the EWT Browser, the CoovaEWT interfaces are made available.

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CoovaEWT, Ubiquiti, and CoovaRADIUS 1.1 Using CoovaEWT in CoovaFX

Our CoovaFX refox add-on now also includes the same application available via Web Start.

After installing CoovaFX version 1.5, right click on the Coova icon found in the status bar. This will bring up a menu of options. Of interest are the options EWT Console and EWT Browser.

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CoovaEWT, Ubiquiti, and CoovaRADIUS Selecting the EWT Browser option will being up a browser window with the same EWT browsing application shown in the previous example.

The EWT Console option will allow you to congure and use the interface with other EWT back-end systems.

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CoovaEWT, Ubiquiti, and CoovaRADIUS After clicking on the edit congurations button, shown in the previous screen-shot, you are able to add and edit EWT sources. Shown below are two such congurations already created, one for our Ubiquiti Router and another for our instance of CoovaRADIUS.

Click on the add button to start a new conguration. Below is our conguration to access the CoovaEWT interface embedded in the Ubiquiti router. We named this entry Ubnt-38 and the URL is http://192.168.100.38/ewt.cgi, which points to the EWT CGI embedded in the Ubiquiti rmware. Complete the conguration by entering the required Username and Password required to access your Ubiquiti web interface and enter the UI Resource of hotspot.

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CoovaEWT, Ubiquiti, and CoovaRADIUS After adding EWT sources, you can then switch between the them easily!

Selecting to access the Ubnt-38 conguration, the GUI changes to the very same user interface that is embedded in the Ubiquiti administrative interface shown previously.

From here, you can manage the hotspot features of the Ubiquiti using only the light-weight JSON formatted API between the CoovaEWT client and the Ubiquiti router.

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CoovaEWT, Ubiquiti, and CoovaRADIUS 1.2 Switching to CoovaRADIUS

Shown below is the EWT conguration for a CoovaRADIUS server running on the localhost. In this case, our URL is set to http://localhost:1900/ewt/json (or https://localhost:1800/ewt/json with SSL) and the UI Resource is coova. Of course, we also need to enter the Username and Password of the CoovaRADIUS administrator.

After selecting to view CoovaRADIUS, the CoovaRADIUS user interface is loaded and ready to go.

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CoovaEWT, Ubiquiti, and CoovaRADIUS 2 About Coova Technologies

Coova Technologies, LLC is a leading provider of commercial and open-source solutions for the wireless and WiFi Hotspot markets. The Coova platform allows for companies to manage wireless networks through a comprehensive, exible set of solutions that centralize and integrate RADIUS software, router rmware, and a web toolkit for client side interfaces. CoovaRADIUS and the open-source JRADIUS are Java based RADIUS solutions. CoovaChilli, found in commercial rmware worldwide, is an open-source access controller that brings captive portal features to a wide range of third-party routers. CoovaEWT is an extensive embedded web toolkit that provides the client-side interface to Coova components. CoovaEWT APIs are integral to all Coova products. More about Coova commercial solutions can be found at www.coova.com. More about Coova open-source solutions can be found at www.coova.org.

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