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Sheet SYN-07 · Network Operations Manual

Wi-Fi Standardization Policies

Required SSID sets, legacy SSID detection, label-based exemptions, and per-site pass, fail, or not-applicable results.

Audience: Network operators and compliance owners Focus: Checking sites against your Wi-Fi standard

Scope

A Wi-Fi policy checks whether each site’s Wi-Fi matches the standard you set. This guide covers the rules, how a site is evaluated, and the results.

Policy rules

The required SSID set comes only from the policy you write. Synapse has no built-in SSID list or naming convention. A Wi-Fi policy has three rules:

Rule Meaning
Required SSIDs Names that must be present and enabled at every site in scope. Names are case-sensitive, because broadcast names are literal.
Allow legacy When off, any enabled SSID outside the required set fails the site as legacy.
Exemptions Sites whose labels match an exemption are skipped. Their result is not applicable.

How a site is evaluated

  1. Synapse checks exemptions first. An exempt site records the matching exemption as evidence, and no SSID checks run.
  2. It collects the site’s enabled SSIDs.
  3. Any required SSID that is not enabled is recorded as missing.
  4. If legacy is not allowed, any enabled SSID outside the required set is recorded as legacy. An empty required set never flags anything as legacy.
  5. The site passes only if nothing is missing and nothing is legacy.

Each site in scope gets one result with evidence: which SSIDs were present, missing, and legacy. A failure lists exactly what to fix.

Scope and evaluation

Scope a Wi-Fi policy to one organization, one site, or every site in the account with a given label. Results refresh after syncs and on the scheduled maintenance run. You can also evaluate on demand. Disabling a policy stops new evaluations and keeps past results.