Aruba Wireless and Clearpass Foundations Lab
The Lab will cover a variety of topics and provide the foundational knowledge, skills and practical experience required to set up and configure a basic Aruba WLAN utilizing the OS 8.X architecture and features with Policy managed by ClearPass. The goal will be to achieve a technical understanding and hands-on experience of configuring a single Pair of Mobility Masters, a pair of Mobility controllers, site hierarchy and its applications with an AP Aruba WLAN that will show network segmentation and management via ClearPass Policy Manager.
- Maximize benefits - The MM Terminating MC's design is ideal for fully leveraging the capabilities of ArubaOS 8.
- Scalability - New controllers can be easily added and managed by the MM.
- Management - Centralized configuration and management of controllers.
- Hierarchical configuration model - Configuration is performed on nodes (logical folders such as Campus-x down to Building-x, etc.) and each controller is assigned to a particular node depending on location and context.
- Clustering - Having controllers in a cluster enables seamless client fail-over between controllers with no impact to user experience.
- Configure ClearPass for Active Directory integration and create dynamic segmentation policies.
Goals & Objectives
Attendees will access the Aruba Virtual and physical hardware to install and build a complete, a secure Wireless controller network managed by Airwave and ClearPass. Some of the tasks are listed below.
In this workshop, you will configure and validate the following:
- Mobility Hierarchy
- Licensing
- Mobility Master Redundancy
- Managed Devices
- Managed Device Clusters
- Ports and VLANs
- Introduction to ClearPass Web-UI
- Microsoft Active Directory integration
- Network Attached Devices (NAD)
- Enforcement Profiles
- Enforcement Policies
- 802.1X Authentication Services
- AP Groups and WLANS
- Testing Roles and Policies
- Airwave
- UXI
Hardware & Software
2 x Aruba Virtual Mobility Master
2 x Aruba Virtual Mobility Controller
1 x Aruba Hardware AP-345
1 x Aruba Hardware AP-555 (Wifi6)
1 x Aruba Hardware 2930F Switch
1 x Aruba Virtual Airwave
1 x Aruba Virtual ClearPass Server
1 x Virtual Webserver
1x Windows 2019 AD Server
1 x Virtual Windows 10 Wireless Client
1 x Virtual Jump Host for Access to the Lab
1 x Aruba UXI Network Sensor