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Central NAC & Bring Your Own Certificate (BYOC)
HPE Networking Aruba Central NAC (CNAC) brings network access control to the cloud. It authenticates users and devices, applies role-based access, and enforces policy across wired and wireless networks.CNAC’s Onboard App makes device onboarding easy, without the need to manage a PKI or device management setup. But what if your organisation… Read more
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ClearPass Policy Visualiser
ClearPass Policy Visualiser (CPV), available from my GitHub repository, is a dependency analysis and policy impact exploration platform for HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass Policy Manager. CPV provides an interactive view of the relationships between Services, Role Mapping Policies, Enforcement Policies, Enforcement Profiles, Roles, and Enforcement Attributes. It helps administrators trace dependencies,… Read more
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Central NAC & Entra ID Integration for Bridge Mode APs
HPE Networking Aruba Central NAC provides cloud-based network access control for authenticating users and devices, applying role-based access, and enforcing policy across wired and wireless networks. In this setup, Central NAC (CNAC) makes policy decisions for selected WLANs, while Microsoft Entra ID validates user identity and provides directory attributes such as… Read more
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Device Validation Tool for New Central using APIs
The enhanced Cutover Validation Tool provides a guided workflow for validating Aruba Central-managed infrastructure during activities such as network cutovers, device migrations, firmware upgrades, site onboarding, operational troubleshooting, and validation of newly deployed environments. While this information can be gathered directly from Aruba Central using the standard tools and UI, that… Read more
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New Central Configuration for Tunnelled WLANs
This technote builds on the previous one, where I covered how to onboard and configure Mobility Gateways running HPE Aruba Networking Wireless Operating System 10 (AOS-10). In this technote, I’ll focus on the element profiles required to configure AOS-10 AP WLANs that operate in tunnel mode connecting to the mobility gateway… Read more
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New Central Configuration for AOS10 Mobility Gateways
In this technote, I’ll walk through how to onboard and configure Mobility Gateways running HPE Aruba Networking Wireless Operating System 10 (AOS-10) using the New Central cloud-native platform. I’ll cover pre-provisioning, firmware compliance, and the New Central configuration needed to automatically upgrade factory-default AOS8 gateways to AOS10 before pushing the required… Read more