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  • Aruba ClearPass Wired Enforcement for CX switches – Part2

    This is the second part of 6x part series on Aruba CX switch wired enforcement with ClearPass. The main objective of this guide is for easy/quick demo of ClearPass Policy Manager (CPPM) wired dot1x, MAC authentication, Guest Captive portal using local user roles for Aruba CX switches.  In the this part we’ll cover wired enforcement… Read more

  • Aruba ClearPass Wired Enforcement for CX switches – Part1

    This is the first part of 6x part series on Aruba CX switch wired enforcement with ClearPass. The main objective of this guide is for easy/quick demo of ClearPass Policy Manager (CPPM) wired dot1x, MAC authentication, Guest Captive portal using local user roles for Aruba CX switches.  In the first part we’ll cover Read more

  • ClearPass OnConnect Configuration

    The main aim here is to be able to demonstrate ClearPass OnConnect with Aruba switch 2920 in which, based on the profiled device category on ClearPass, the devices (IoTs) will be put into their respective VLANs and all this is based on SNMP. ClearPass 192.168.0.95/24   DHCP server 192.168.0.254/24   Aruba switch 2920 192.168.0.251/24  … Read more

  • 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