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  • Aruba CX Live Upgrade

    As you might know there is a feature for 8XXX CX switches called Live Upgrade. Using this feature, it basically upgrades a pair of 8XXX switches that are configured for VSX without any down time. Here are the screenshots of the demo of VSX live upgrade feature for a customer.The upgrade/downgrade  was from 10.06.0100 to… Read more

  • Using Static Host List with ClearPass

    There are use cases where you need to use a list of hosts (MAC addresses) to provide MAC auth with ClearPass which in most of the cases it is mainly for legacy devices. We’ll start with creating the list. Once you save it you see it as shown below. The static host list can be… Read more

  • ClearPass Enforcement Policy for Nested AD groups

    This is a short tutorial using ClearPass enforcement policy to check if the user is member of nested or higher level AD group. We’ll explore two methods for it. There are many cases that the users are member of a sub group that are all part of a higher level group and you want to… Read more

  • Aruba Central Template configuration for VSF and Core Switches

    Here are the templates that I used for VSF and the core switches in my previous post. Aruba Central VSF Template Here is the full template for your reference. This template can be used for a single switch or VSF stack of up to 4x members. hostname %_sys_hostname%allow-unsupported-transceiveruser admin group administrators password plaintext aruba123clock timezone… Read more

  • Aruba CX switch deployment with Aruba Central and Aruba CX App

    The aim of this short guide is to use the CX App to configure two 6300 switches in VSF and then use Aruba Central to further configure and manage them along with dual 832X core switches in VSX formation.Our CX switches are using 10.05.0020 but the minimum version required to be managed by Aruba Central… Read more

  • Device Profiles Configuration for CX switches

    Here is a short technote to demonstrate “Device profile” feature for CX 6200/6300/6400 switches. Device profile was a popular feature in AOS-S switch like 2930F/M and the aim of the feature is to automatically discover the key devices that are connected to the switch port using LLDP/CDP and to enable automatic configuration of the switch… Read more