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Category: CX Switches

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • NetEdit TACACS Authentication with ClearPass

    The main aim of this short technical note is for easy/quick configuration and demo of TACACS authentication between NetEdit and ClearPass Policy Manager (CPPM). We assume that the ClearPass has already joined the AD domain as we’ll be using the AD user group to authenticate the TACACS users.