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A VIP client often requires high-priority protection, for example, a teacher client in a classroom. You can view information about online clients added to the VIP client group on the VIP client monitoring page of the cloud platform.
When the number of clients associated with a radio on an AP reaches the limit, the AP logs off clients in the order of non-VIP, level-2 VIP, and level-1 VIP to ensure that high-priority clients can come online first.
A client acts as a VIP client only after you add its MAC address to the VIP client list.
The level-2 VIP client rate limit or non VIP client rate limit that takes effect depends on your configuration.
Level-1 VIP clients are not rate limited.
Level-2 VIP client rate limit:
If you configure both level-2 VIP client rate limit and radio-based client rate limit, the configuration that takes effect depends on the rate limit modes (static or dynamic).
If different rate limit modes are configured, level-2 VIP client rate limit takes effect.
If the static mode is configured, the smaller value takes effect. If the dynamic mode is configured, level-2 VIP client rate limit takes effect.
If you configure both level-2 VIP client rate limit and another rate limit method, the smaller value takes effect.
Non VIP client rate limit:
If a radio has associated VIP clients, the radio rate limits non-VIP clients. If no VIP clients exist, the radio does not rate limit non-VIP clients.
If you configure both VIP client rate limit and radio-based client rate limit, the configuration that takes effect depends on the rate limit modes (static or dynamic).
If different rate limit modes are configured, non VIP client rate limit takes effect.
If the static mode is configured, the smaller value takes effect. If the dynamic mode is configured, non VIP client rate limit takes effect.
If you configure both non-VIP client rate limit and another rate limit method, the smaller value takes effect.
The VIP client feature takes effect only when the client association location is on the AC.
You can add up to 128 level-1 VIP clients.
From the left navigation pane, select Configure > WLAN Optimization > VIP > VIP Clients.
In the VIP Client Info area, click Add. In the dialog box that opens, add a VIP client. You can manually add a VIP client or select a VIP client from the online client list. If you choose to manually add a VIP client, enter the MAC address of the client, and then select a VIP level.
From the left navigation pane, select Configure > WLAN Optimization > VIP > VIP Clients.
In the Rate Limit area, click Click to set to configure client rate limit settings.
An AP reports information about VIP clients to the device, which reports the information to the cloud platform.
To configure report of client information:
From the left navigation pane, select Configure > WLAN Optimization > VIP > VIP Clients.
In the Client Info Report area, specify a report interval.