Author: René Jorissen

René Jorissen works as Solution Specialist for 4IP in the Netherlands. Network Infrastructures are the primary focus. René works with equipment of multiple vendors, like Cisco, Aruba Networks, FortiNet, HP Networking, Juniper Networks, RSA SecurID, AeroHive, Microsoft and many more. René is Aruba Certified Edge Expert (ACEX #26), Aruba Certified Mobility Expert (ACMX #438), Aruba Certified ClearPass Expert (ACCX #725), Aruba Certified Design Expert (ACDX #760), CCNP R&S, FCNSP and Certified Ethical Hacker (CEF) certified. You can follow René on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Management, Wireless

Useful command: netsh wlan

René Jorissen on October 28, 2015 • 1 Comment • Tags: #export #netsh #profile #profiles #show #wlan

The management of wireless networks can be done via the Windows command “netsh wlan”. This command is especially useful when using Windows 8. You can use other “netsh” subcommands to retrieve other system information, like “netsh lan” to get information about your Wired AutoConfig Service settings. The following table describes some options for “netsh wlan”. Command … Read More

Management

NetScaler VPX – upgrade firmware

René Jorissen on October 13, 2015 • 0 Comments • Tags: #cli #firmware #netscaler #upgrade #vpx

I am fairly new to NetScaler to I tried to upgrade the software via CLI. This is what I if done. Download the upgrade firmware via MyCitrix.com Backup the configuration Upgrade the software to the NetScaler appliance (I used pscp.exe on a Windows machine to upload the software to the directory /var/nsinstall/11.0/63.16. I created the … Read More

Management, Security

NetScaler VPX – management certificate

René Jorissen on October 9, 2015 • 0 Comments • Tags: #certificate #management #netscaler #ssl #vpx

I would like to upgrade my current NetScaler VPX Express configuration via GUI. For some security reason Internet Explorer and FireFox aren’t able to access the GUI. They return the error message that the NetScaler is using a wrong SSL certificate. The default SSL self-signed certificate is installed on the appliance. I have uploaded a … Read More

Mail relaying

Export StartTLS certificate from SMTP server

René Jorissen on May 5, 2015 • 2 Comments • Tags: #certificate #export #smtp #smtpoffice365com #starttls

While configuring Office365 as the messaging (SMTP) server within Aruba ClearPass, I needed to upload the certificate from the StartTLS session to the certificate trust list from ClearPass. I had to export the certificate for smtp.office365.com via the following OpenSSL command: openssl s_client -showcerts -starttls smtp -crlf -connect smtp.office365.com:587 After running the command, you will see … Read More

Other stuff...

Provision Aruba AP via CLI

René Jorissen on March 26, 2015 • 2 Comments • Tags: #ap #aruba #cli #provsion

Below you will find the necessary commands to provision an Aruba access-point via CLI. The commands add the access-point to the AP whitelist and provision the AP in the correct ap-group. Adding the AP to the whitelist is necessary when using control-plane security. whitelist-db cpsec add mac-address “94:b4:0f:c4:7e:98” description “ap01” whitelist-db cpsec modify mac-address “94:b4:0f:c4:7e:98” … Read More

Configuration Example, Wireless

Aruba MAS – Tunneled node

René Jorissen on March 12, 2015 • 0 Comments • Tags: #aruba #mas #tunnelednode

Today I played a bit with an Aruba Mobility Access Switch with Tunneled Node configuration to a Aruba Mobility Controller. More information on Tunneled Node can be found here. The configuration is straight forward. You need to configured a tunneled-node profile on the MAS and associate the access ports on the MAS to a VLAN, … Read More