Managed object to provision a device according to one of plural provisioning techniques
A wireless device receives, from a configurator device, a managed object that includes information indicating which of different provisioning techniques is to be used to provision the wireless device. The wireless device determines, based on the information, a particular provisioning technique of the different provisioning techniques to use.
1. A wireless device comprising:
a wireless interface to communicate wirelessly with a configurator device; and
at least one hardware processor configured to:
cause sending, to the configurator device, information indicating a Wi-Fi technology that the wireless device supports;
receive, from the configurator device, information of a managed object comprising a Wi-Fi technology field included in the managed object by the configurator device, the Wi-Fi technology field set to a value of different values to indicate the Wi-Fi technology that is to be provisioned, the different values selected from a group consisting of a value for a Device Provisioning Protocol (DPP) technology, and a value for a Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) technology, wherein the managed object is wirelessly received over an authenticated link between the configurator device and the wireless device; and
perform provisioning of the wireless device according to the value of the Wi-Fi technology field indicated by the managed object.
2. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein a collection of one or more information elements populated in the managed object by the configurator device depends upon a determination by the configurator device of which of different Wi-Fi technologies to use for provisioning the wireless device, where different collections of information elements correspond to the different Wi-Fi technologies.
3. The wireless device of claim 2 , wherein the different collections of information elements comprise a first collection of one or more information elements for Hotspot 2.0 provisioning, and a second collection of one or more information elements for DPP provisioning.
4. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the managed object is to cause provisioning of the wireless device as one of an enrollee, a configurator, a P2P client, a P2P services client, an NAN device, and an access point (AP) with wireless links with one or more APs.
5. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the Wi-Fi technology indicated by the managed object causes provisioning of the wireless device in a transparent manner to a fixed network provisioning infrastructure.
6. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the provisioning performed by the wireless device provisions the wireless device as a DPP enrollee.
7. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the provisioning performed by the wireless device provisions the wireless device as a DPP configurator, and the managed object includes information relating to a configurator policy.
8. A method comprising:
receiving, by a configurator device, information from a wireless device, wherein the received information indicates a Wi-Fi technology that the wireless device supports;
in response to the received information, including, by the configurator device in a managed object, a Wi-Fi technology field set to a value of different values to indicate the Wi-Fi technology that is to be provisioned, the different values selected from a group consisting of a value for a Device Provisioning Protocol (DPP) technology, and a value for a Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) technology; and
sending, by the configurator device, the managed object to the wireless device to cause the wireless device to perform provisioning according to the value of the Wi-Fi technology field indicated by the managed object.
9. The method of claim 8 , comprising:
excluding, by the configurator device, the Wi-Fi technology field from the managed object in response to the received information indicating that the Wi-Fi technology is a Hotspot 2.0 technology.
10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the managed object is to cause provisioning of the wireless device as one of an enrollee, a configurator, a P2P client, a P2P services client, an NAN device, and an access point (AP) with wireless links with one or more APs.
11. The method of claim 8 , wherein the managed object includes a further information element to specify a role of the wireless device, the role selected from among a DPP role, an infrastructure role, a P2P role, an NAN role, and a role of an access point (AP) with wireless links with one or more APs.
12. The method of claim 8 , comprising including, by the configurator device in the managed object, an information element relating to authentication and key management.
13. The method of claim 8 , comprising including, by the configurator device in the managed object, a further information element including information identifying enrollee devices that have been previously provisioned, the further information element to pass, to the wireless device being provisioned as a configurator, the information identifying the enrollee devices.
14. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium storing instructions that upon execution cause a wireless device to:
cause sending, to a configurator device through a wireless interface of the wireless device, information indicating a Wi-Fi technology that the wireless device supports;
receive, from the configurator device, information of a managed object comprising a Wi-Fi technology field included in the managed object by the configurator device, the Wi-Fi technology field set to a value of different values to indicate the Wi-Fi technology that is to be provisioned, the different values selected from a group consisting of a value for a Device Provisioning Protocol (DPP) technology, and a value for a Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) technology, wherein the managed object is wirelessly received over an authenticated link between the configurator device and the wireless device; and
perform provisioning of the wireless device according to the value of the Wi-Fi technology field indicated by the managed object.
15. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 14 , wherein a collection of one or more information elements populated in the managed object by the configurator device depends upon a determination by the configurator device of which of different Wi-Fi technologies to use for provisioning the wireless device, where different collections of information elements correspond to the different Wi-Fi technologies.
16. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the different collections of information elements comprise a first collection of one or more information elements for Hotspot 2.0 provisioning, and a second collection of one or more information elements for DPP provisioning.
17. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 14 , wherein the managed object is to cause provisioning of the wireless device as one of an enrollee, a configurator, a P2P client, a P2P services client, an NAN device, and an access point (AP) with wireless links with one or more APs.
18. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 14 , wherein the Wi-Fi technology indicated by the managed object causes provisioning of the wireless device in a transparent manner to a fixed network provisioning infrastructure.
19. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 14 , wherein the provisioning performed by the wireless device provisions the wireless device as a DPP enrollee.
20. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 14 , wherein the provisioning performed by the wireless device provisions the wireless device as a DPP configurator, and the managed object includes information relating to a configurator policy.