Category: Aruba Instant
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Dual Ethernet Uplink with WiFi Mesh for Retail Stores
In this technote we’ll cover a useful solution for small retail stores/remote sites that need 1-2 APs and require active-passive Ethernet uplink. Note that you can run IAP-VPN on top of this solution which is not covered here. This solution uses the new feature in Instant 8.8.x that basically supports…
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Using Remote pcap with Aruba Instant APs
You can enable remote packet capture in Aruba Instant APs like how you do it with Aruba controllers/gateways. First SSH to an Instant AP (IAP) and search for the Basic Service Set Identifier (BSSID) for access point using “show ap monitor status” command. BLDG-A-ATV1# show ap monitor statusAP Info——-key value—…
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How to enable BLE Console for Aruba Instant APs
Since most of the Aruba APs have inbuilt Bluetooth beacons, we could use it to have console access to the APs. For this you need Aruba utilities on Android devices or BLUConsole app on iOS devices, starting with Instant firmware version 8.6.X. Instant AP Configuration Here we are using AP-505H…
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Aruba Instant and Multiple PSKs (MPSK) – Part 2
This is a two-part technote in which we explore multiple PSKs (MPSK) for the same SSID. In the previous workflow when the users who want to register their devices for MPSK, had to login to ClearPass Guest then they would be prompted for a MAC address of their device that…
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Aruba Instant and Multiple PSKs (MPSK) – Part 1
This is a two-part technote in which we explore multiple PSKs (MPSK) for the same SSID. In the first part we’ll cover the basic configuration and the main workflow in which
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Dual Wired Uplinks using Instant APs
There are a number cases where you need to have two wired uplinks for the Instant Cluster. In this short technote we’ll explore how to set this up with Aruba IAPs. In particular I am using Netgear nighthawk which is Ethernet based 3G/4G uplink. In this scenario we are using…
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Configuring segregated networks with Aruba Instant
There are a number of cases for small deployments where you have an AP with multiple Ethernet interfaces and need to have complete segregation between two wirelesses SSIDs mapped to two separate network on separate switches.So in this technote we’ll explore how to set this up with Aruba IAPs.
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Blocking Corp devices from connecting to WiFi Guest Network
Here in this short technote I’ll show how to restrict the guest access from the corporate devices that are meant to connect to corporate dot1x wireless instead. This is a common requirement for organisation to restrict access for the corporate devices to connect to their guest WiFi network.The main process…
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