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Informations about HP Enterprise Network Technology with aruba/ProCurve (ProVision-OS-), ComwareOS-based Switches and aruba Wireless
Hello Guys, today I will talk about how you can automatic assignment tagged and untagged vlans for a aruba-ap. create a device profile In the device profile, you can configure the VLAN settings, Poe, jumbo frames, etc. As example vlan 1502 untagged and vlan 224 tagged. conf t device-profile name “ArubaAPs” untagged-vlan 1502 tagged-vlan … Read more
Hello Guys, Today I am going to talk about a problem with my company’s wildcard certificate. Because I wanted to display the Clearpass captive portal without certificate errors. I tried to import our company wildcard certificate. And in doing so, I encountered the following problem: Here we have the problem that the certificate chain for … Read more
Hello Guys, today I will talk about how you can separate the management vlan from the routing table. Ok that sounds interesting but why do you want that? In this scenario, I use an HPE Comware 5900 as a central core switch that routes between the individual VLANs. This means that the switch needs an … Read more
Hello Guys, last week I received a message from a customer that there are problems with network printers since the firmware update to version 3507. The problem was that it took a long time for a printer to start printing when the printer was in energy-saving mode. For testing, I had firmly packed a printer … Read more
Hello Guys, Last week I had to replace a defective switch in a VSF stack for the first time. Those who know the IRF stack from HPE Comware know that this is feasible, but you have to configure a lot until the stack is up and running again after replacing a stack member. With Aruba … Read more
Hello guys, today I will talk about how you can setup a WPA2/3 enterprise wifi with aruba Instant On Access Points. Because I don’t have an AD integrated notebook in my private test environment, I limit myself to username / password and don’t do any authentication by computer account. Settings in the Instant On Portal … Read more
Hello Guys, today I will talk about how to configuring a guest Wifi with a Aruba Mobility Controller and the Sophos hotspot solution. In this example I will using the Sophos SG hotspot solution. With Sophos XG, it’s basically the same. Sophos SG Create a new Interface It’s recommandet, to use a own interface … Read more
Hello guys, today I want to tell you how to create a redundant point-to-point connection with Aruba 387 access points. Update for this setup the firmware version 8.6.0.6 or newer is absolutely needed. Because in the older versions the bug AOS-216445 is not fixed yet. AOS-216445 Clients connected to the mesh portal AP … Read more
Good afternoon my fellows! There are many ways to configure quality of service (QoS) on a switch. First we need to classify what we want to be on a higher priority. You can classify an access-list, vendor-mac-addresses or just everything/any. In my case I wanted to prioritize a whole VLAN (ID 17 in my case). … Read more
Phew… it cost me a lot of time and headaches to establish the scenario of 802.1x and mac-authentication with dynamic VLAN assignment on a ProCurve/aruba Switch. The NPS logs set me on the wrong track… I used VLAN 1 for 802.1x, VLAN 2 for MAC-Authentication and VLAN 999 for the dead VLAN. Don’t forget to configure … Read more
