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Reading Time: 7 minutes This article is all about the ClearPass RestAPI. My goal is to give you a short overview of the capabilities of the ClearPass RestAPI and show one possible use case. Maybe you can comment on the article and describe your use case. I’m working on a project with the need to onboard a device with ClearPass. … Read more
Reading Time: 5 minutes Ever wondered why you can’t use MAC authentication and get the correct username for monitoring purposes, for example? Actually, with ClearPass you can use MAC authentication with a username. You can return the correct username, not the MAC address so that monitoring applications can use this username instead of the MAC address. Configure the Controller … Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutes This time is all about radius based operator login, as some devices might not support TACACS+. The post describes the operator login with radius authentication and command authorization. This post covers only the ArubaOS devices which do not support TACACS+ command authorization. Operator Login with Radius on ArubaOS Switches For those ArubaOS switches, which do … Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutes This is the second post on the TACACS+ topic. This time the post is all about TACACS+ operator command authorization and accounting. This is very helpful for logging who does what at which time and makes troubleshooting easier. Operator command authorization and accounting means, that all commands issued at the device, are sent to the … Read more
Reading Time: 7 minutes This time, I write about the scenario, using Aruba Instant with external captive portal. With external portal, I did not mean ClearPass. It can be a simple web server, with a simple web page, hosing the captive portal. I show, how to send back the information to Instant AP and get the user online. How … Read more
Reading Time: 7 minutes This time, I would like to show the configuration of the Virtual Intranet Access client. I use this one as a replacement for my OpenVPN installation. The aim is, to have an encrypted connection, even when using public hot spots. The great thing, Aruba VIA is also available to mobile phones, like my iPhone.In this post, … Read more
Reading Time: 7 minutes In this post, I would like to describe the steps needed to set up an development environment for an internal application for the HPE VAN SDN controller. My aim is to use this environment to start writing a simple application for the HPE VAN SDN controller later on. I will use Ubuntu as the development … Read more
Reading Time: 5 minutes In this post I would like to show how I created an IPSec tunnel between my lab and my workstation. I have a static IP only for my lab, but not for the workstation and I was looking for an easy way to interconnect both to do some wireless testing without sitting in the noisy … Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutes In this post, I will describe how you can configure SNMPv3 on Comware based and provision based switches. SNMP is used by management systems to monitor and configure network devices. As the information which are send and received by the SNMP speaking devices could be sensitive, you should have security in place to protect the … Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutes In this post, I will show, how to create iMC access templates, to configure the iMC access to devices. I will show, how to create a SNMP template, a telnet template and a SSH template. Those templates are used to define, how iMC should try to access the device and which credentials should be used. … Read more