Aruba Central Foundation 6200 & 2900 Series Switch License (3-Year, 1 Switch)

This 3-year Aruba Central Foundation 6200 & 2900 Switch License subscription enables a range of configuration, management, security, and monitoring software tools and services for your network switch. This cloud services license applies to a single Aruba 6200 or 2900 series switch, and additional licenses may be required to support more.

Configuration & Management

AOS-S Configuration

Network administrators can manage AOS-S switches through the Aruba Central UI menu options. Templates in Aruba Central refer to a set of configuration commands that can be used by the administrators for provisioning devices in a group. Configuration templates enable administrators to apply a set of configuration parameters simultaneously to multiple devices in a group and thus automate AOS-S deployments.

AOS-CX Configuration

Network administrators can manage AOS-CX switches through the Aruba Central UI menu options and the MultiEdit mode. The MultiEdit mode in Aruba Central provides a single window for viewing and editing the configuration for one or more AOS-CX switches. In this mode, viewing and editing the configuration is performed using the CLI syntax. Templates in Aruba Central refer to a set of configuration commands that can be used by the administrators for provisioning devices in a group. Configuration templates enable administrators to apply a set of configuration parameters simultaneously to multiple devices in a group and thus automate AOS-CX deployments.

Auto-Commit

Aruba Central supports a two-staged configuration commit workflow for Instant APs. When the auto-commit state is enabled for a group, the configuration changes are instantly applied to all devices where the auto-commit state is enabled.

Configuration Audit

In Aruba Central, the Configuration Audit page provides an audit dashboard for reviewing configuration changes of the devices provisioned in the UI and template groups. The Configuration Audit page allows you to view configuration push errors, template synchronization errors, configuration sync, and device-level configuration overrides.

Monitoring & Reporting

Alerts and Events

The Alerts and Events dashboard displays a list of alerts and events generated for events pertaining to device provisioning, configuration, and user management. You can view the alerts and events in the List view and Summary view. Configuration view is used to configure alerts and is available only at the Global context.

Application Visibility

Application Visibility is a custom-built Layer-7 firewall capability in Aruba Central that allows you to create firewall policies based on the types of applications in IAPs. Application Visibility provides features like deep packet inspection, application monitoring, and Air Slice Policy. The Application Visibility feature is a part of a Foundation License. However, as API streaming is available for Advanced Licenses only, the Application Visibility streaming service is supported only for APs with an Advanced License.

Audit Trail

The Audit Trail page in Aruba Central shows the total number of logs generated for all device management, configuration, and user management events triggered in the network.

Client List & Details

The Clients page is also called the unified clients list and it provides a list of all clients that are connected to access points, switches, or gateways in the network. The List and Summary views under the Clients tab serve as dashboards. It displays details about the network performance, client connection status, instantaneous client refresh, Go Live (only AP), and other information required for monitoring the clients.

Reports

The Reports feature enables you to generate reports for the Clients, Infrastructure, Security Compliance, and Applications categories. The Reports feature is present under the Analyze section of the Network Operations app. The functionalities present are creating a report, generating a report, scheduling the report generation, previewing a report, and downloading a report in PDF and CSV formats. The Custom range for the Summary report is available for the last one year, except the current date (today). All other reports are available for 90 days.

Topology

In Aruba Central, the Topology tab in the site dashboard provides a graphical representation of the site, including the network layout, details of the devices deployed, and the health of the WAN uplinks and tunnels. The topology map provides information about third-party devices and devices that are not managed by Aruba. It also provides information about orphan and offline third-party devices, and the VLANs configured on switches running AOS-S and AOS-CX software.

AI Operations

AI Insights

The AI Insights dashboard displays a report of network events that could possibly affect the quality of the overall network performance. These are anomalies observed at the access point, connectivity, and client level for the selected time range. Each insight provides specific details on the occurrences of these events for easy debugging.

Different types of insights are generated by Aruba Central and they can be accessed from different contexts such as Global, Site, Clients, and Device. Some of the insights are part of an Advanced License only and they are marked as Advanced in the user interface.

AI Search

The AI search feature in Aruba Central enables you to search for clients, devices, and infrastructure connected to the network. Using the search results, you can navigate to the configuration and troubleshooting pages. The search also retrieves relevant documentation to help you efficiently operate your networks. The search engine uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) to analyze queries and return relevant search results.

Troubleshooting

Live Events

The clients Live Events page shows information required to troubleshoot issues related to a client or a site in real time for detailed analysis.

Live Packet Capture (PCAP)

Aruba Central allows users to interact and launch a targeted packet capture on a client connected to a specific AP or a switch. When the user starts packet capture from the UI, Aruba Central notifies the AP and the switch. The default packet capture duration is 15 minutes.

Troubleshooting Tools

The Tools menu option allows network administrators and users with troubleshooting permission to perform troubleshooting or diagnostics tests on devices and networks managed by Aruba Central.

Security

Clients Profile

The Clients Profile enables network and security administrators to discover, monitor, and automatically classify new and existing devices that connect to a network. You can identify devices that include IoT devices, medical devices, printers, smart devices, laptops, VoIP phones, computers, gaming consoles, routers, servers, switches, and so on.