IAW/MBC 6.4 Course Companion Tips

Lab 2.1

2.1 Section "The Aruba Controller Initial Script"

• Step 3. a.

Situation: You are asked to select the default hostname in the initial startup wizard.
Problem: If you don't see a question about Hostname, your initialisation script has probably progressed past the initial question of the script.
Solution: press "Control-X" to restart the initialisation wizard.

You should now see the script restart from the beginning:

Restarting from beginning...
Enter System name [Aruba7030]:

2.1 Section "Adding Licenses"

• From step 2 to step 4 of "Adding Licenses" section you are asked to access VDI2 and find your license folder to copy and paste licences into your controller CLI".  In most cases you can retrieve these licences from from a file where they have been previously stored on the controller (by your lab administrator) more quickly and easily as follows with "license import VTC-Licenses":

(controller) # dir -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6355 May 15 02:50 AUDITTRAIL-HISTORY.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3734 May 15 02:50 AUDITTRAIL-LOGIN_OUT-HISTORY.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1796 Feb 17 2015 VTC-Licenses .... (controller) # license import VTC-Licenses Successfully imported 4 licenses to the license database from VTC-Licenses; please reload to make licenses take effect (Aruba7030) #show license License Table ------------- Key Installed Expires Flags Service Type --- --------- ------- ----- ------------ xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxx 2015-02-23 Never ER Access Points: 16 10:18:19 xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxx 2015-02-23 Never ER RF Protect: 16 10:18:43 xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxx 2015-02-23 Never ER Next Generation Policy Enforcement Firewall Module: 16 10:19:12 xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxx 2015-02-23 Never ER Policy Enforcement Firewall for VPN users 10:19:59 License Entries: 4

(controller) # reload
Do you really want to restart the system(y/n): y
System will now restart!

you can copy and paste this into your controller:

license import VTC-Licenses
show license
reload

• Note: this only works because previously your lab administrator has installed the correct licences on your controller and then exported them with the "license export VTC-Licenses" command.

Lab 2.2 "Mobility Controller Setup Wizard Lab"

• Step 3

Situation: You are asked to initiate the Controller wizard, and apply significant host level changes to your master controller, however the wizard fails to apply these settings.
Problem: With code 6.4.3.6 as used in the lab, there is a known issue with NTP not being set during or prior to the wizard being run as shown in the lab guide. If you do not have a valid NTP server setting in place as you attempt to apply the wizard solution, the wizard will fail to complete.
Solution: enter a valid NTP server value while using the wizard or on the CLI prior to starting the wizard.

(controller) #configure t Enter Configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z (controller) (config) # ntp server 10.254.1.21 (controller) (config) # write memory Saving Configuration...Configuration Saved. Now you should start, or restart the Web based Controller wizard.