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Device Profiling

Automatically classify what's connecting — printer, phone, laptop, camera — from network fingerprints, so your policies and MAB can act on device type instead of hand‑maintaining MAC lists.

How it classifies​

DashX profiles devices from signals it already sees:

  • MAC OUI — the vendor prefix of the MAC address.
  • DHCP fingerprint — how the device requests an address.

From these it assigns a device type / category.

Using it​

  1. Go to Network → RADIUS / NAC → Device Profiling.
  2. Review classified devices; look up a device by MAC or OUI (e.g. b4:22:00:ad:37:dd, b42200, or b4-22-00).
  3. Reference the resulting device type in Access Policies (match type = device_type) and MAB — e.g. "all printers → VLAN 30".
tip

Profiling turns "a list of MACs I have to maintain forever" into "any device that looks like a printer" — write the policy against the type and new devices are covered automatically.