Campus Access Fundamentals v26.31 (CAF2)

Welcome to this week's class

navigate to https://rubbernecks-arubanetworks.blogspot.com

Be sure you have downloaded the course learner guide as per the instructions you received in an email from HPE last week.  Check your email history, spam folder, etc... for the keyword "OnSecure" if you cannot find the email.  You only have 10 days to print this learner guide (PDF or paper), and one year of access to the online document.

• Click here for this week's lab access spreadsheet
• ask me for the link password

• Lab Notes
• webgate: how to copy and paste while doing the labs
• when you see an X or a P in SSID or profiles in your Lab Guide:
• P = your pod number
• Z = your table number

Tips on how to google our site for documentation

• googling for AOS-Switch-related topics
• site:hpe.com -inurl:pdf -inurl:cx inurl:16\.11 "dhcp-snooping"

• googling for AOS-CX-related topics
• site:arubanetworks.com -inurl:pdf inurl:cx inurl:10\.16 "dhcp-snooping"

• search option notes:
• site:x only searched that domain
• -inurl:x don't report links with this text in the URL
• inurl:x only report on links with text
• (ideal for finding specific version documentation)

• Today's Notes:
• SSID: to-be-determined
• password: see whiteboard in class

Day 1 - Lecture Modules & Labs

M01: Course Introduction 

M02: Campus Overview

• Lab 2 - HPE Remote Lab Introduction
• 1: Remote Lab Access

M03: Introduction to HPE ANW Central

• Lab 3 - Initial Setup
• 1: Switch Provisioning
• 2: HPE ANW Central Groups and Sites
• 3: HPE ANW Central User Interface

M04: Device Management

• Lab 4 - Initial Setup
• 1: HPE Aruba Networking Central configuration profiles and hierarchy
• 2: Switch system configuration
• 3: Switch system information

Day 2 - Lecture Modules & Labs

M05: Switching Connectivity Fundamentals

• Lab 5 - Configure VLANs and Ports
• 1: Verifying
• 2: Testing VLANs
• 3: Configuring Ports
• 4: Configuring Port Profiles
• 5: Configuring VLANs

M06: Loop Prevention

• Lab 6 - Configure MSTP and LAG
• 1: Configuring Spanning Tree Protocol
• 2: Testing redundancy and additional configuration
• 3: Configuring LAGs

M07: Switch High Availability (VSX and VSF)

• Lab 7 - Switch high availability
• 1: Configuring VSF
• 2: Configuring VSX

Day 3 - Lecture Modules & Labs

M08: Layer 3 Services

• Lab 8 - L3 services
• 1: Configuring SVIs
• 2: Configuring Active Gateway
• 3: Configuring DHCP relay

M09: Routing Fundamentals

• Lab 9 - Managing Aggregation Switches with Aruba Central
• 1: Configuring static routes
• 2: Configuring OSPF
• 3: Management VLAN

M10: AOS-10 Architecture and Bridged WLAN

• Lab 10 - Initial AP setup
• 1: Identifying APs
• 2: Configure ARC and AP system settings
• 3: Configure AP uplink settings
• 4: RF profile
• 5: Create a bridged mode SSID

Day 4 - Lecture Modules & Labs

M11: User Roles

• Lab 11 - Create and manage roles and Policies
• 1: Create employee and contractor user roles

M12: Network Security

• Lab 12 - Advanced user authentication
• 1: Configure SSID with RADIUS authentication
• 2: Test SSID with RADIUS authentication
• 3: Create a guest WLAN
• 4: Preparing HPE Aruba Networking Central NAC for guest authentication
• 5: Test guest SSID
• 6: Enable guest self-registration
• 7: Test guest SSID with self-registration

M13: UXI (notice lab 13 and 14 are swapped)

• Lab 13 - Floor Plan Manager
• 1: Create building and floors
• 2: Planning access point deployment
• 3: Assign devices to floor plan
• 4: Floor plan dashboard

M14: Floor Plan Manager

• Lab 14 - Monitoring with UXI sensors
• 1: Onboard and Configure the UXI sensor

Day 5 - Lecture Modules & Labs

M15: Monitoring

• Lab 15 - Monitoring with Central
• 1: Site Monitoring
• 2: Device Monitoring
• 3: Client Monitoring

M16: Troubleshooting

• Lab 16 - Troubleshooting
• 1: Troubleshooting tools
• 2: Audit Trail
• 3: Insights

M17: Administration

• Lab 17 - Troubleshooting Overview
• 1: User management and RBAC
• 2: Certificate management
• 3: Reports

M18: Network Design

• Lab 18 - Network Design
• 1: Understanding customer requirements
• 2: Wired network design
• 3: RF planning
• 4: Campus security design

Appendix

• Acronyms or Key terms
• SVI: switched virtual interface (interface vlan <vlan-id>)
• Designated Bridge: The switch containing the Designated Port is referred to as the Designated Bridge for that segment.
• useful troubleshooting commands:
• show span mst 0
• show span mst 1
• show span mst 2

• Lab Access Errata

• when experiencing any problems with remote lab access (WebGate):
• be sure your browser is in private (incognito) mode
• restart your browser and clear your cache and cookies
• do not try to login unless you are 100 percent sure the login page is fully loaded (the tab favicon will look similar to an orange triangle)
• during login to Central, did you select the SSO option?
• if you need to restart your windows host
• in cmd.com type "shutdown /r /t 0"

• if your 6300 is missing its firmware 
• (this example was pod53, table10-access-1)
• boot to service OS
• ip addr 10.251.1.68 255.255.255.0 10.251.1.254
• tftp -b 65464 -g -r ArubaOS-CX_6400-6300_10_13_1000.swi 10.251.1.91