Gateway Deployment

Aruba Central offers the following options to configure gateways in Aruba Central:

Groups—You can create a logical subset of devices as groups. If you have devices that must share common configuration settings, ensure that you assign these devices to the same group. Any new device joining a group inherits the configuration that is already applied to the devices in a group. Similarly, you can also maintain separate groups for Branch Gateways and VPNCs by assigning a group role for the devices. For more information, see Assign Gateways to a Group.
Device-specific configuration—If you have a considerably lesser number of devices that do not have the same configuration requirements, you can apply configuration changes at the device level. In some cases, although the devices are assigned to a group, you may want to have a slightly different configuration to one specific device in a group. In such cases, you can modify the device configuration and apply changes at the device level. Aruba Central marks the discrepancies in the group and device configuration as overrides on the Configuring Configuration Audit Properties page.
Bulk configuration—Aruba Central supports several bulk configuration options for Aruba Gateways:
- Bulk Configuration Upload—Allows you to download a list of Aruba Gateways from Aruba Central in the CSV Comma-Separated Values. A file format that stores tabular data in the plain text format separated by commas. file format. You can add the configuration parameters for hostname, system IP address, VLAN Virtual Local Area Network. In computer networking, a single Layer 2 network may be partitioned to create multiple distinct broadcast domains, which are mutually isolated so that packets can only pass between them through one or more routers; such a domain is referred to as a Virtual Local Area Network, Virtual LAN, or VLAN., and Ports, and then upload the CSV file to Aruba Central. For more information, see Uploading Bulk Configuration Template.
- Gateway Pools—Allows you to create a common pool of IP addresses and enables automatic assignment of IP addresses to Aruba Gateways. For more information, see Configuring Gateway Pools for Aruba Gateways.
- DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. A network protocol that enables a server to automatically assign an IP address to an IP-enabled device from a defined range of numbers configured for a given network. Pools—Allows you to configure a DHCP pool, using which Aruba Central automatically assigns a subnet Subnet is the logical division of an IP network. to each Aruba Gateway for a given VLAN. For more information, see Configuring Gateway Pools for Aruba Gateways.
APIs—Allows you to configure and monitor devices using NB APIs Application Programming Interface. Refers to a set of functions, procedures, protocols, and tools that enable users to build application software.. For more information, see API Gateway.

Aruba Central supports the following methods to configure ArubaOS 10 Gateway groups and Gateways.

Guided Setup—You can use the Guided Setup to quickly configure basic and essential parameters on ArubaOS 10 Gateways for deploying the SD-WAN Software-Defined Wide Area Network. SD-WAN is an application for applying SDN technology to WAN connections that connect enterprise networks across disparate geographical locations. solution. The Guided Setup provides a wizard-based workflow for provisioning ArubaOS 10 Gateways. The wizard allows you to configure ArubaOS 10 Gateways at your own pace, pause, and resume when required. However, the Guided Setup will not be available after you complete the provisioning workflow for an ArubaOS 10 Gateway group or an ArubaOS 10 Gateway.
For more information on configuring ArubaOS 10 Gateways using the Guided Setup, see the following topics:
Basic Mode—Allows you to configure your ArubaOS 10 Gateways in a non-linear fashion. This mode allows you to make configuration changes after you provision your ArubaOS 10 gateways for the first time using a Guided setup. For more information, see Configuring an SD-Branch Network Using the Basic Setup for ArubaOS 10 Personas.
Figure 1 Basic Mode
Advanced Mode—Allows you to configure advanced features for SD-WAN Wide Area Network. WAN is a telecommunications network or computer network that extends over a large geographical distance. deployments. For more information, see Configuring an SD-Branch Network Using the Advanced Setup for ArubaOS 10 Personas.
Figure 2 Advanced Mode
Before you proceed with the configuration tasks, browse through the recommendations and best practices described in the Aruba SD-Branch Fundamentals Guide and Aruba SD-Branch Security Hardening Guide.