Author: René Jorissen
Getting your AOS-CX switch in Central
Everybody is talking about Cloud Management and since Aruba Central is upgraded to 2.5.2, there is the ability to manage your AOS-CX switch in Central via Template Groups. To get this done, it is necessary to get your switch connected to Central and this isn’t always a matter of booting the switch, configure IP address, … Read More
Configuration Example, Management
phpIPAM – Azure and SAML authentication
What is easier than using your Azure credentials to log in to your web applications like phpIPAM? My daily job is networking, like routing, switching, wireless, and Wi-Fi, so I had to puzzle when I had to configure SAML2 authentication between phpIPAM and our company Azure infrastructure. I couldn’t find a lot of information about … Read More
User tunnel not operational
HPE Aruba switches have the concept of user-based tunnelling. In short, the wired connections behave like a wireless connection. All traffic from the wired client is tunnelled to the central controller. This provides functions like central firewalling and micro-segmentation by blocking inter-user traffic. Yesterday I had a customer complaining that multiple clients weren’t able to … Read More
Aruba Networks, Configuration Example, Switching
AOS – WireShark: remote capture
AOS switches have the option to monitor / copy traffic from port A to port B. You also have the option to send the monitor traffic to a remote switch or even to a remote host. When the remote host is running WireShark, the monitored traffic can be analysed on the remote host. First you … Read More
Aruba Networks, Configuration Example
Migrate RAP from AOS 6.x to AOS 8.x
I guess something that many HPE Aruba wireless engineers have to do these days is migrating the “old” AOS 6.x environment to the new AOS 8.x with Mobility Masters. I am not going to explain what the differences between both are and what a Mobility Master does, but I have a tip when you need … Read More
Aruba Networks, ClearPass, Configuration Example, Security, Switching
Downloadable User-Roles and NTP sync
The HPE Aruba switches have this cool feature called downloadable user-roles (DUR). DUR enables the switch to use a central ClearPass server to download user-roles to the switch for authenticated users. More and more customers want to implement wired authentication to strengthen the security level of their network. Via DUR the switches perform an HTTPS … Read More