ArubaNetworks - Course and Lab Tips

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This is not an official list, it is just a list of sources of information that I used to study in preparation for the ACDX 6.4 exam.  I did well on the exam, but there was more sources of information I used than just this, this is just want I happen to remember reviewing prior to the exam.  I hope this helps your study effort, feel free to let me know your take on the best study approach for this exam in the comment section below. The first place to start is to review the official exam datacard from HPE https://certification-learning.hpe.com/TR/datacard/Exam/HPE0-A118P There seems to be 2 datacards for this exam, so take a close look at this one as well https://certification-learning.hpe.com/TR/datacard/Certification/Aruba-ACDXV64R It is quite important you sign up for and do the online WBT course listed in this datacard, the Mobile First Network Design, it seems to be specifically designed to help you prepare for the ACDX 6.4 exam.  There are a few gems tau...

With so many AP's so close together, its best to disable your 2.4 GHz radios. When AP's are too many and too close together as often happens in LAB situations, it's best to not use your 2.4 GHz radio in ap-mode. One nice option is to change the mode of your g radio to am-mode. Disabling channel bonding on your controller's APs and interfering APs. Configure your AP's to disable channel bonding on your 5 GHz radios, this make more channels free for you and your classmates AP's to choose from. Note: it is a good idea to keep a minimum distance of at least 10 feet between APs. There is a certain amount of interference between radios even if they are running on 5GHz but different channels. you can copy and paste this into your Mobility Master console: cd /md configure terminal rf dot11a-radio-profile "default" cell-size-reduction 55 no very-high-throughput-enable no high-throughput-enable max-channel-bandwidth 20MHz ...

If your working in a lab environment and you want to have easy quick access to your equipment without hassle of repeated logon requests, you can do the following: Navigate to http://clearpass_ip/      Click on the "ClearPass Policy Manager".  Login using user/password = appadmin/eTIPS123  Click the Administration Tab on the left window pane.  Within Administration tab, click "Server Manager", then "Server Configuration"  At the top right of your screen, click "Cluster-Wide Parameters"  Within the popup windows, on the General tab, select "Admin Session Idle Timeout"  You can place a value between 5-1440 default is 30 minutes.  Set 1440 and click Save.

Certificate errors during login to Student Lab ArubaOS Controllers this one from Microsoft's Edge browser. This can happen with any browser depending on the state of your controllers server certificate. First you should try to click the bottom link that says: "Continue to this webpage (not recommended)" This will try to bypass the fact that your browser might not trust the signing authority of the CA that signed the certificate used for SSL by your Controllers web server. If you are using the default certificate included in the ArubaOS firmware, it may be a revoked certificate, and if your browser has determined that, you may not be able to continue to the web site unless you disable certificate checking altogether on your browser. Click here to read about this issue from Aruba's community support web site. If this is the case, some times when you click on the "Continue" link, nothing will happen. Warning: it is NOT recommended to di...

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 -...

If your working in a lab environment and you want to have easy quick access to your equipment without hassle of repeated logon requests, you can do the following: (controller) #configure t Enter Configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z (controller) (config) #enable bypass (controller) (config) #loginsession timeout 0 (controller) (config) #web-server profile (controller) (Web Server Configuration) #session-timeout 3600 (controller) (Web Server Configuration) #write memory you can copy and paste this into your controller: configure terminal enable bypass loginsession timeout 0 web-server profile session-timeout 3600 exit exit write memory