• RADIUSdesk Structure overview
• Access Providers
• Realms
• Vouchers
• Permanent users
• Devices and BYOD
• Profiles
• NAS Devices
• Dynamic Login Pages overview
  • Social Login (inc Facebook)

Consider the following diagram:

Let us briefly describe each of the items inside the diagram and how they relate to each other.

• The root user of RADIUSdesk can create Access Providers. These Access Providers in turn can create sub-providers up to n-levels deep.
• Each access provider can manage their own little playpen.
• The playpen consists of various components which will be discussed next.

• Realms are a way to group Vouchers, Permanent Users and Devices.
• Each Voucher, Permanent User or Device has to belong to a single Realm.

• Vouchers are disposable and mass produced ways to provide Internet Access.
• A Voucher system does not care who the person that uses the voucher is.

• Permanent Users are used for long term usage with options to give a person a monthly usage cap.
• Permanent users typically have one or more devices which they own. This is managed through the BYOD Manager.

• Devices are a sub-item to Permanent Users.
• Each device registered on RADIUSdesk has to belong to a Permanent User.
• The Device will also by association belong to the same realm to which its owner belongs.

• Each Voucher, Permanent User and Device also has to be assigned to a single Profile.
• A Profile typically controls the connection of a user, determining how much data or bandwidth the User, Voucher or Device is allowed.
• Each Profile in turn can consist of zero or more Profile Components.

• Profile Components are the building blocks to create flexible profiles.
• Apart from bandwidth and data usage, you can add fields like Time or Expiry Date to a profile.

• NAS (Network Access Server) devices are network equipment that provides a controlled way to grant users access to the network.
• A WiFi Access Point with a captive portal (like CoovaChilli or Mikrotik) are examples of NAS devices.

• Each NAS Device can have zero or more tags to help group and label Access Points.

• Dynamic Login Pages are the custom welcoming page when users connect to the Hotspot.
• You can create a login page with custom user fields, themes and graphics.
• Dynamic Login Pages provides an easy and central way to manage login pages for CoovaChilli and Mikrotik Captive Portals.

• MESHdesk is the interface that allows you to add and manage NAS devices in an automated way. This is most useful in a mesh environment.
• MESHdesk provides an easy and central way to manage and monitor Batman-adv mesh networks.