Tag: aruba
Configuration Example, HPE Aruba
Aruba AOS 10 and Mesh Networking
Mesh networking is not something you configure every day, but in certain scenarios it becomes the only viable solution. Typical reasons include locations where structured cabling is impossible, or—as in this case—when there is no physical connection available between two separate buildings. For this setup, I configured a dedicated AP group specifically for mesh access … Read More
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, Configuration Example
Aruba Airwave 8.2.4 and no CLI / shell access
BE AWARE: reading and applying this blog is at your own risk. Following the below procedure could affect the support validity on your Aruba AirWave appliance. All AirWave firmware versions prior to 8.2.4 gave you shell access to the CentOS operating system. Once you upgrade from 8.2.3 to 8.2.4 you receive the message that the … 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
Provision Aruba AP via CLI
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
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