Whitelist Synchronization

ArubaOS allows managed devices to synchronize their remote AP Remote APs extend corporate network to the users working from home or at temporary work sites. Remote APs are deplyed at branch office sites and are connected to the central network on a WAN link. whitelists with the Aruba Activate cloud-based services. When you configure Activate whitelist synchronization, the managed device will securely contact the Activate server and download the contents of the whitelist on the Activate server to the whitelist on the managed device. The managed device and the Activate server must have layer-3 connectivity to communicate.

By default, this feature will both add new remote AP Remote APs extend corporate network to the users working from home or at temporary work sites. Remote APs are deplyed at branch office sites and are connected to the central network on a WAN link. entries to the managed device whitelist and delete any obsolete entries on the managed device whitelist that were not on the Activate server whitelist. Select the add-only option to allow this feature to add or modify entries, but not delete any existing entries.

The following example enables the Activate whitelist service on the managed device. The add-only parameter allows only the addition of entries to the Activate remote AP Remote APs extend corporate network to the users working from home or at temporary work sites. Remote APs are deplyed at branch office sites and are connected to the central network on a WAN link. whitelist database. This parameter is enabled by default. If this setting is disabled, the activate-whitelist-download command can both add and remove entries from the Activate database.

(host) [md] (config)# activate

(host) [md] (activate) #username

(host) [md] (activate) #password pass

(host) [md] (activate) #whitelist-enable

(host) [md] (activate) #add-only

The following command prompts the managed device to synchronize its remote AP Remote APs extend corporate network to the users working from home or at temporary work sites. Remote APs are deplyed at branch office sites and are connected to the central network on a WAN link. whitelist with the associated whitelist on the Activate server:

(host) [md] (config) #activate whitelist download