Category: Wireless
HPE Aruba, Management, Wireless
Deploy HPE 9106 gateways
Twice in the last couple of weeks I ran into issues while deploying HPE 9106 gateways with Central. In both cases, the gateways came out of the box running ArubaOS 8.13.1.0. I provisioned them using the enable-debug and static-activate commands. After configuring the required IP information, the gateway rebooted, contacted Activate and… nothing happened. The … Read More
Aruba Networks, ClearPass, Configuration Example, Wireless
ClearPass – concurrent session limit
I tried to configure a restriction to the concurrent number of active sessions a user can have on the wireless network. I found a great article on AirHeads Community “How to deny access for authentication requests based on session limit?” In short the article tells you to: Edit the Insight Repository Add more Filiters on … Read More
Flash clean-up
Lately I upgraded a Aruba Networks wireless controller or at least I tried…… The upload of a new image to the controller has two steps. First the copy process from a TFTP server to the controller and second the actual writing of the new firmware image to flash (system partition). The second step kept showing … Read More
Useful command: netsh 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
Configuration Example, Wireless
Aruba MAS – Tunneled node
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
Configuration Example, Wireless
Aruba WPA2 with MAC authentication
Configuring an SSID with WPA2 Pre-Shared key or Enterprise authentication and encryption is very common. Sometimes you would like to add an extra authentication method. Although this method isn’t very secure, MAC authentication is still used as an extra method to strengthen the level of security of a wireless or wired network. These days I … Read More