Testing Appliance Connectivity

To test Aruba cloud reachability:

1. Go to the Collector CLI.
2. In the Enter option field, enter 6 (Test Connectivity) and press Enter.
3. In the Enter option field, enter 1 (Test Aruba Cloud reachability) and press Enter. This process performs two connectivity tests. The first test, tests the reachability of the appliance to the Cloud URL Uniform Resource Locator. URL is a global address used for locating web resources on the Internet. discovery server. This test you perform before you register the appliance. The second test, tests the reachability of the appliance to the Aruba cloud. This test you perform after you register the appliance. When you perform this process before registration, the following messages are displayed:

   Testing reachability to Cloud URL discovery server ...

   Cloud URL discovery server reachable

   Aruba Cloud URL is not set. Please activate the node.

   When you perform this process after registration, the following messages are displayed:

   Testing reachability to Cloud URL discovery server ...

   Cloud URL discovery server reachable

   Testing cloud reachability.....

   Aruba cloud is reachable

4. Press Enter.

To test connectivity to another host:

1. Go to the Collector CLI.
2. In the Enter option field, enter 6 (Test Connectivity) and press Enter.
3. In the Enter option field, enter 2 (Test connectivity to another host (using PING)) and press Enter.
4. In the Type host address field, enter the host address you want to reach and press Enter. A message is displayed whether the host is reachable or not.
5. Press Enter.

This process performs four connectivity tests. The first test, tests the reachability of the appliance to the cloud URL discovery server. Perform this test before you register the appliance. The second test, tests the reachability of the appliance to the Aruba cloud URL. Perform this test after you register the appliance. The third and fourth tests, test the reachability of the application metadata server and application containers server. Perform these tests before registration,

To test connectivity to all required servers:

1. Go to the Collector CLI.
2. In the Enter option field, enter 6 (Test Connectivity) and press Enter.
3. In the Enter option field, enter 3 (Test connectivity to all required servers) and press Enter.

The following messages are displayed:

Ensure that the first, third, and fourth tests are successful. Otherwise, check if the DNS Domain Name System. A DNS server functions as a phone book for the intranet and Internet users. It converts human-readable computer host names into IP addresses and IP addresses into host names. It stores several records for a domain name such as an address 'A' record, name server (NS), and mail exchanger (MX) records. The Address 'A' record is the most important record that is stored in a DNS server, because it provides the required IP address for a network peripheral or element. servers are reachable from the appliance. For more information, see Testing Appliance Connectivity.

The following messages are displayed after registering an appliance: