Provisioning Wired and Wireless Devices

With HPE Aruba Networking Central, you can provision various wired and wireless devices using their MAC Media Access Control. A MAC address is a unique identifier assigned to network interfaces for communications on a network. addresses to access enterprise WLAN Wireless Local Area Network. WLAN is a 802.11 standards-based LAN that the users access through a wireless connection. networks. Client devices can include IoT Internet of Things. IoT refers to the internetworking of devices that are embedded with electronics, software, sensors, and network connectivity features allowing data exchange over the Internet. devices, medical devices, printers, smart devices, gaming consoles, and so on. With HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass Device Insight, network and security administrators can discover, add devices, monitor, and automatically classify new and existing devices that connect to a network.

Cloud auth tenants are provisioned using the EC-384 bit certificates which ensure secure authentication.

With Cloud Authentication and Policy, administrators can provision wired and wireless clients by creating a client access policy to provision devices on the enterprise networks. We recommend you to assign a tag for a device before creating a client access policy. For more information about tags, see Configuring Cloud Authentication and Policy

The following workflow shows the steps required to provision wired and wireless devices using Cloud Authentication and Policy.

Prerequisites for Provisioning Wired and Wireless Devices

Ensure to complete the following prerequisites before provisioning wired and wireless devices.

Configure a wired profile with CloudAuth Cloud Authentication and Policy allows you to configure user and client access policies that provide a secured, cloud-based network access control (NAC). as the authentication server. For more information about configuring wired SSID Service Set Identifier. SSID is a name given to a WLAN and is used by the client to access a WLAN network., see Configuring Cloud Authentication and Policy Server in a Wired Network.
Client Profiles and Client Tags must be available in your HPE Aruba Networking Central account. Optionally, create custom tags in addition to the system tags for client devicesFor more information about adding Tags, see Managing Tags. For more information about adding Tags, see Managing Tags in HPE Aruba Networking Central Help Center.
Configure necessary client roles that are applicable for creating client access policy in Cloud Authentication and Policy. For more information about user roles and configuring user roles, see Configuring User Roles for IAP Clients.

On devices that do not support a wired interface, if you try to provision wired-only profiles using the HPE Aruba Networking Onboard app, an unsupported device error message appears.