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Network Management with Aruba AirWave Sujatha Mandava

June 2014

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AirWave manages it all

Aruba WLAN

Aruba Networks

Controllers & APs

Instant

Wired

Aruba

Any MIB-II compliant

device

Legacy WLAN

Migrate from

Cisco

Motorola

Legacy

Users & Devices

Classification & reporting

Application Reporting

Monitor network activity

Outdoor / Mesh

Aruba AP175/275

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Data Flow to AirWave

SNMP

Trap

sAM

ON

AirWave

ControllerH

TTPS

VirtualController

NMSEmail, SNMP, Syslog

Dashboards

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RF Performance

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RF Performance

Track clients with poor health over time

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Watched Clients

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RF Capacity

2 radios were “heavily utilized” 80-100% of the time.

(“Heavily utilized” is 80%+ utilization).

(Only “on time” is considered. That is, blocks of time the radio is doing something, not the middle-of-the-night).

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Overview

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Application Visibility: by Destination

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8.0 – UCC (Lync, Jabber….)

• Dashboards Identify call quality issues and correlate with client health

• Lync overlay with historical view of calls

• Lync Mobility trail to track historical call sessions

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Dashboard to Diagnostic page

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Call Details

• Selecting a call gives details like jitter, delay for the call.

• The red icon shows the point at which the client roamed during the call..

VisualRF

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VisualRF in HTML5

Improved navigation

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VisualRF in HTML5

• Floorplan with APs/Clients and relation lines

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VisualRF – Heatmaps & Overlays

• Heatmap

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VisualRF – Floor Upload Wizard

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Channel Overlay

• Identify Overlapping Regions

Client Diagnostics

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Client Diagnostics

• Client location

• Network Hierarchy

Report/Triggers

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Reports

• Report Types: RF health, Client Session, Device Summary, Inventory

• Custom Report

• Options: Configurable Interval, Scheduling, Exporting, Emailing

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Triggers

• Trigger Types: Device Down, Client Count, Radius Auth, Server Health

• Options: Notes, Email/NMS

Security (RAPIDS, PCI)

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RAPIDS

• Rules Based Rogue Classification

• IDS Events

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PCI Compliance

UI

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All Graphs in 7.7 Now HTML5

Graphs in AirWave 7.6 and earlier were Flash-basedAll graphs in AirWave 7.7 are converted from Flash to HTML5

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All Graphs in 7.7 Now HTML5

By clicking on a graph, can then zoom in/out, pan, and hover (to get values for each point)

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8.0 UI Improvements – Views

• Select columns and filters to display the desired set of views

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UI Contd.. – Simpler Modify Devices

• Easy to use UI for Modify Devices

Scalable Clustered Architecture in 8.0

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AirWave 8.0 - Multi-server Architecture

Scale to 20,000 APs

• No architecture choice will prohibit > 20,000

• Up to that limit, add another server, get another increment of capacity (symmetric arch)

Single Virtual IP from perspective of controller/VC

• Controllers/VCs need be configured with only a single AMP IPaddr

Failover without human intervention

• Failover transition lasts 10min or less, during which time data collection may be interrupted

• Only data loss might be up to 1hr of client session data; no other data loss

• Simple process to re-introduce repaired server to cluster (or add another server)

Can still run on a single server

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Current single-server architecture

SNMP trap recvr

AMON recvr

SNMP pollers

swarm handler

work queue

ALC workers

database

AW-RRD

UI

report gen

config gen/audit

Visual RF

message bus

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Multi-server architecture

database backup

SNMP trap recvr

SNMP pollersswarm handler

work queue via [distributed] RabbitMQ message bus

UI report gen config gen/audit

Visual RF

database

database master

ALC workers ALC workers ALC workers

Visual RFVisual RF

worker machine #3worker machine #2worker machine #1

AMON recvr

OpenTSDBOpenTSDBOpenTSDB

Configuration

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IGC: Just like Instant embedded UI

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IGC: Notes and multi-edit

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Switch config

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Provisioning Using Activate

AirWave pushes the latest software image and Site A

configuration

Instant AP connects to AirWave server via HTTPS and

associates to the Site A group

Instant AP connects to Aruba Activate via HTTPS and downloads provisioning

details

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3

Aruba Activate™

10 a.m.

10:02 a.m.

10:07 a.m.

Site A - Configuration ASite B – Configuration BSite C – Configuration C

AirWave™

Secure Data Center

Site C

Site B

Site A

Aruba Instant™

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Controller Config

• Local Config

• Bulk edit of overrides – a small set of variables like vlan

• AOS 6.4 configuration

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Serviceability

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Run CLI command(s) at intervals

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Controller Backups/Config

• Preserve controller backups and provision to restore functionality

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