ClearPass Guest Operator Login with AD

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Reading Time: 5 minutes ClearPass Guest is one of the most used guest systems and makes it very easy to allow specific people or a group of people to create guest accounts. They can also maintain their own accounts. To allow this you need to configure the ClearPass Guest operator login. The last post about operator login for ClearPass covered the login … Read more

ClearPass Operator Login with Active Directory

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Reading Time: 4 minutes When you setup ClearPass, you always need to authenticate your operator. In this post, I will describe an easy way to use Active Directory for ClearPass operator login. I use AD here because most of my customers use AD. So, we can work with it and do not have to set up something new or … Read more

Backup ESXi Server – Lab System

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Reading Time: 7 minutes My lab environment is more and more important for some of my daily tasks. But I do not care about the system itself. The only requirement is that it has to run. but as it get’s more and more important I started thinking about a backup. ESXi has no built-in function for this and external … Read more

ArubaOS 8 Introduction

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Reading Time: 3 minutes This is the first article in a series of articles, where I talk about the new ArubaOS 8 for the WLAN controller. This is the ArubaOS 8 introduction article, to give an overview of the new features in ArubaOS 8, which I cover in later posts in much more detail. I’m running ArubaOS 8 for … Read more

Change the Management VLAN for Aruba Instant

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Aruba Instant is a very simple and easy to use WLAN solution. In some projects, I have the situation, that users are placed in VLAN 1. Which is easy with Aruba Instant. But unfortunately, VLAN 1 is the default management VLAN and the AP itself should not be placed in VLAN 1. This was impossible … Read more

iMC DHCP Agent

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Reading Time: 4 minutes iMC is able to display a list of devices and IP addresses in use. To get the hostname of those devices as well, the iMC DHCP agent can grab those from the DHCP server. During my test of this function, I found some obstacles. In this article, I will share my experience and describe the installation … Read more

HowTo Sync AirWave AP’s to iMC

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Reading Time: 4 minutes This article describes the steps to sync AirWave AP’s to iMC. This does not consume device licenses in iMC. It makes it a no brainer because you can benefit from the topology views, which include the AP’s. This makes troubleshooting much easier. Why Sync AirWave AP’s to iMC Most of the ArubaOS based switches are … Read more

iMC Operator Login with Radius (ClearPass)

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Long ago, I configured my iMC server to use AD based operator login. you can read the post here. After having ClearPass up and running I will do the iMC operator login with radius. This post describes how this works. iMC Operator Login: Prepare ClearPass The first step is to prepare ClearPass. Those are the normal steps … Read more

Migrate ClearPass to a new Server

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Reading Time: 3 minutes A question, I hear very often. How to migrate ClearPass to a new server? The reason can be, you have reached the end of the evaluation phase and want to use the evaluation installation for production, but you need to change the specs. Or you need to upgrade the specs of your appliance to meet the … Read more

Install ClearPass on Proxmox

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Since ClearPass version 6.6.2, we have support for KVM (Kernal-based Virtual Machine). In this post, I show how to install ClearPass on Proxmox. Proxmox runs KVM based virtual machines but unfortunately do not use the tools from the installation guide of ClearPass. Nevertheless, follow this post to get it running. Running ClearPass on Proxmox is … Read more