Category: CX Switches
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Aruba Cloud Auth for CX Switches
This technote delves into Cloud Authentication and the policies offered through the Aruba Central foundational subscription. It highlights a streamlined approach to authentication for both wired and wireless clients. However, the primary focus in this technote is on wired clients, with the objective of creating simple yet effective access policies…
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Aruba CX Switch Automation with Network Analytics Engine Lite
In this technote I will explore simple automation with CX switches that does not require any knowledge of scripting. I am using NAE Lite which is a CLI based framework.The goal is to define the event you want to monitor, specify the conditions for this event, and outline the actions…
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Application Recognition with CX Switches and New Central
The Application Recognition and Control (ARC) is a relatively new feature in CX switches in which the switches perform Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) of the user traffic which is supported on 6300 and 6400 switch series.In this technote I’ll demonstrate ARC configuration and its application visibility in New Aruba Central…
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Microsegmentation for Port Based Tunnelling with CX switches
In this technote, we’ll build on the previous setup (Port Based Tunnelling with CX switches) by demonstrating: The main benefits of Microsegmentation comes from the fact that We assume that the previous setup is in place and note that the word “gateway”, “vpnc” and “controller” is used interchangeably here and…
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Port Based Tunnelling with CX switches
Port-based tunnelling (PBT) provides a method to tunnel the traffic of wired devices directly to a cluster of gateway /VPN concentrator (VPNC) without requiring an authentication server. By utilising this approach, authentication and network policies can be enforced at the gateway/VPNC side for tunnelled wired traffic. Centralising policies at the…
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Using Job Scheduler with CX Switches
This is a short technote on using job scheduler feature of CX switches. Job scheduler feature is pretty cool because you can run bunch of CLI commands at particular time as well as periodically. There are numerous use cases and here I’ll cover three of them.
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Radsec and Aruba ClearPass – Part3
RadSec is used to secure/encrypt the authentication session between Instant APs (IAP), Switches and ClearPass. The main use case is when you have your authentication sever AKA ClearPass installed in AWS or Azure and you need to use Internet as a medium to transport the RADIUS authentication. This is a…
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Radsec and Aruba ClearPass – Part2
RadSec is used to secure/encrypt the authentication session between Instant APs (IAP), Switches and ClearPass. The main use case is when you have your authentication sever AKA ClearPass installed in AWS or Azure and you need to use Internet as a medium to transport the RADIUS authentication. This is a…
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