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Reading Time: 2 minutes I often get the question, how to connect our devices to central, as we do not allow direct access to the internet. Here is the answer, we can send the dynamic proxy settings via DHCP to our IAP’s, running at least firmware version 8.4. DHCP Part for Dynamic Proxy Settings First, you need to prepare … Read more
Reading Time: 10 minutes I was writing some new posts and realized that I missed one basic post for you. If you ever went through the process of provisioning many new AP’s to a controller, you may be looked for a simpler way to do the provisioning work. The solution is the whitelist. Every ArubaOS controller has an internal whitelist … Read more
Reading Time: 7 minutes This time is about some basic things. I will describe the unified Aruba controller discovery process. With the new unified software, the process is the same for IAP and CAP. Actually, with the new unified software, there is no IAP or CAP anymore. The Aruba discovery process is a simple process. The AP uses this … Read more
Reading Time: 9 minutes In this post, I describe the different ways to deploy a controller with ArubaOS 8. Controller Deployment is significantly easier with ArubaOS 8 and it is the first time, that we see Zero Touch Provisioning for controllers. With ArubaOS 6.x it was not possible to have a complete Zero Touch Provisioning process. The fact, that … Read more
Reading Time: 5 minutes This time I will demonstrate the Aruba central provisioning process, to zero touch deploy switches and Aruba Instant AP’s. The process is using Aruba Activate as well. But let’s start at the beginning. What is Aruba Central Aruba Central is the cloud-based management solution from HPE Aruba. In the past, Aruba Central was used to manage … Read more