This procedure covers installing the software on the supplicant device via commissioning.
Prerequisites:
- The
Supervisor installation (
Workbench) used to commission the JACE/Edge device is has the
Niagara 4.8 (or later) release installed.
- If you wish to have the station-level configuration view, the latest
ieee8021X-*.jar files should be in the !modules folder for the release of
Niagara you are using, where ! replaces the folder path.
NOTE: The Nav Container view for the platform is always available for the
Niagara 4.8
Workbench. If the
Workbench environment has the necessary modules, no additional modules need to be installed for the platform-level IEEE 802.1X Configuration view.
Perform the following steps:
- Connect the Supervisor and supplicant device to an open (not secure) network.
- Download from Niagara Central the latest
Niagara 4.8 installer (or the module files:
platIEEE8021X-rt.jar and platIEEE8021X-wb.jar, if the latest version of
Niagara 4.8 is already installed).
- Run
setup.exe or save the modules in the Niagara\version\modules folder, where version is the release version number of
Niagara.
- Commission the supplicant device, installing
platIEEE8021X-rt.jar during the software step.
NOTE: If not done already, be sure to install the
Niagara 4.8 ieee8021x license feature on the supplicant device.
- Once commissioning is complete and the device reboots, connect to the platform and continue the installation by setting up
security, and configuring IEEE 802.1X properties (described in separate procedures following this one).
When you have configured the supplicant device, disconnect from the open port and connect it to an authenticated network segment.
If you can access the supplicant device using the expected IP address, your configuration has worked. You may need to use
a serial cable to diagnose problems.
NOTE: See the System Shell menu for added IEEE 802.1X options.