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The following features and enhancements are now available in Aruba Central (on-premises):

ClosedClient Monitoring Enhancements

Aruba Central (on-premises) allows you to monitor clients in the dashboard. Following are the client monitoring enhancements:

ClosedBlink LED Option

The Blink LEDLight Emitting Diode. LED is a semiconductor light source that emits light when an electric current passes through it. option on Client Details page enables the blinking of LEDs on APs to identify the location of the APs.

Navigate to the Manage > Clients page, and click the client name to view the Client Details page. The Connection section under Client Details page displays the Blink LED option. Click Blink LED to enable the blinking of LEDs on the AP.

For more information, see Wireless Client Details.

ClosedMonitoring Wireless Clients

The Overview > Summary page of the wireless client dashboard now contains an Association History table. This table lists a series of association or disassociation events for the wireless client registered over a period of time for campus APsCampus APs are used in private networks where APs connect over private links (LAN, WLAN, WAN or MPLS) and terminate directly on controllers. Campus APs are deployed as part of the indoor campus solution in enterprise office buildings, warehouses, hospitals, universities, and so on.. Some examples of events displayed include roaming information, AP, SSIDService Set Identifier. SSID is a name given to a WLAN and is used by the client to access a WLAN network., BandBand refers to a specified range of frequencies of electromagnetic radiation. changes and so on. For more information about the Association History table, see Wireless Client Details.

ClosedGo Live

Aruba Central (on-premises) supports live monitoring of the client. Click Go Live to start live monitoring of the client and click Stop Live to stop live monitoring of the client. Live monitoring is supported only if the AP is running Aruba Instant 8.4.0.0 firmware version. Live monitoring stops after 15 minutes. At any point, you can click Stop Live to go back to the historical view. For more information, see Wireless Client Details.

ClosedLive Events

Aruba Central (on-premises) allows you to troubleshoot issues related to a client or a site in real time for detailed analysis. Live troubleshooting is supported only if the wireless client is connected to the access point running Aruba Instant 8.4.0.0 or a later version. Live events are supported only on Instant APs. The live troubleshooting can only be performed at a site level or for a specific client. For more information, see Client Live Troubleshooting.

ClosedClient Health Bar

The refresh icon in the Wireless Client Health Bar refreshes the data on the Health Bar for the wireless client. The refresh icon in the Wired Client Health Bar refreshes the data on the Health Bar for the wired client. This icon appears only after 15 minutes of pinning the Health Bar to the Client Details page and until 15 minutes it is considered as the Live Health Bar because the data is updated every 5 seconds. The Live Health Bar is a 15-minute session that is initiated when you hover over the wireless client name in the Client Details page under Manage > Clients in the Network operations app. A pop-up appears displaying latest values that are updated every 5 seconds for the Connection status, Device Health, Signal Quality, Tx | Rx Rate, and Connected To parameters. After the 15-minute session of the Live Health Bar, the refresh icon appears. You may click the refresh icon to restart the session. You can also pin this window to the Client Details page. For more information, see:

ClosedRemote Clients

A new client type called Remote is introduced for clients that are connected through a VPNVirtual Private Network. VPN enables secure access to a corporate network when located remotely. It enables a computer to send and receive data across shared or public networks as if it were directly connected to the private network, while benefiting from the functionality, security, and management policies of the private network. This is done by establishing a virtual point-to-point connection through the use of dedicated connections, encryption, or a combination of the two.. You can view the details about the remote client type in the following pages:

  • Summary—The Remote Clients count is added to the Clients graph in the Summary tab at the Global context. For more information, see Global—Summary.
  • Client Details:
    • List view—The Remote column is added to the Client Summary bar and the value indicates the number of remote clients present in the network.
    • Summary view—The Remote column is added to indicate the number of remote clients connected to the network and Remote Bandwidth Usage is added in the Usage tab.
  • Remote client dashboard—Clicking on the remote client in the Client Details page navigates to the context dashboard. It consists of the Health Bar , Summary, Applications, Security, and Tools tabs. For more information, see Remote Client Details.
ClosedController Monitoring Enhancements

Following are the Controller monitoring enhancements:

  • In the Controller dashboard, the Online and the Offline tabs indicate the total number of online and offline devices.
  • Model—A new column is introduced in the Controllers and the Mobility Conductor table that displays the model number of the device.
  • By default, the Controllers and the Mobility Conductor table sorts the offline devices and then the online devices.

    For more information, see Viewing the Controllers Tab.

  • Reboot Controller—Aruba Central (on-premises) does not support rebooting of the controller.
ClosedAccess Point Monitoring Enhancements

Following are the AP monitoring enhancements:

ClosedBlink LED Option

The Blink LED option on AP Details page enables the blinking of LEDs on APs to identify the location of the APs.

Navigate to the Access Points configuration dashboard, and click an AP listed under Device Name. The Device section under Overview > Summary page displays the Blink LED option. Click Blink LED to enable the blinking of LEDs on the AP.

For more information, see Access Point > Overview > Summary.

ClosedChannel Utilization

The Channel Utilization graph indicates the percentage of channel utilization for the selected time range from the time range filter, and includes the following categories:

  • Transmitting
  • Receiving
  • Non-Wifi Interference
  • Total Utilization

Navigate to the Access Points configuration dashboard, and click an AP listed under Device Name. In the AP dashboard context, click the RFRadio Frequency. RF refers to the electromagnetic wave frequencies within a range of 3 kHz to 300 GHz, including the frequencies used for communications or Radar signals. tab to view the Channel Utilization graph.

For more information, see Channel Utilization.

ClosedWLANS

Navigate to the Access Points overview dashboard, and click an AP listed under Device Name. The WLANSWireless Local Area Network. WLAN is a 802.11 standards-based LAN that the users access through a wireless connection. section in the AP Details page displays the list of all SSIDs configured for the AP. When you expand a SSID in the WLANS table, you can view the additional information for 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 5 GHz (Secondary) radios.

For more information, see Access Point > Overview > Summary.

ClosedHealth Status

Navigate to the Access Points overview dashboard, and click an AP listed under Device Name. In the Health Status graph of the AP Details page, the Poor Health Limit text indicates the poor health limit of the device in the network.

For more information, see Access Point > Overview > Summary.

ClosedReplace Device

Aruba Central (on-premises) now supports an access point (AP) replacement workflow. Navigate to the Access Points overview dashboard, and then click an AP listed under Device Name. The Replace Device option under Actions allows you to replace an offline AP in the Aruba Central (on-premises) web UI.

For more information, see Replacing an AP.

ClosedAirSlice Policy

Aruba AirSlice, based on IEEEInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. 802.11ax standard, is similar to 5G network slicing architecture which allows network operators to build virtual networks tailored for specific application requirements. AirSlice allows network operators to monitor applications used by clients. AirSlice supports multiple services such as gaming, IoTInternet 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., voice, video, and so on. AirSlice is available for all clients; however, 802.11ax clients have enhanced benefits due to efficient uplink and downlink traffic scheduling mechanism.

For more information, see:

ClosedGo Live

Aruba Central (on-premises) supports live monitoring of Instant APs that support Aruba Instant 8.4.0.0 firmware version and above. It allows you to monitor live data of an AP updated at every 5 seconds.

Navigate to the Access Points overview dashboard, and click an AP listed under Device Name. Click the Go Live button to start live monitoring of the AP and click the Stop Live button to exit live monitoring of the AP.

For more information, see Enabling Live IAP Monitoring.

 

ClosedLive Events

Aruba Central (on-premises) allows you to troubleshoot issues related to access points. The AP Live events feature is similar to client live troubleshooting, but in this case, we can enable live events at the AP level. Currently, users can subscribe to Radio, VPN, and Spectrum events. For more information, see AP Live Events.

ClosedAOS-Switch Enhancements
ClosedAOS-Switch Firmware Downgrade Support

Changing AOS-Switches firmware from latest version to earlier major versions is not recommended if the switches are managed in UI groups. For features that are not supported or not managed in Aruba Central on earlier AOS-Switch versions, changing firmware to earlier major versions might result in loss of configuration.

ClosedAOS-Switch Configuration Enhancements

Following are the AOS-Switch configuration enhancements:

ClosedAOS-Switch Configuration Enhancements

Following are the AOS-Switch configuration enhancements:

  • SNMP—Administrators can now configure SNMPv3 on AOS-Switches. SNMPv3 uses authentication and privacy protocols to provide enhanced security.

    For more information, see Configuring SNMPv3 on AOS-Switches.

  • Tunnel Node Server—Administrators can now configure user-based tunnel on switches from the Tunnel Node Server page. This allows the switch to tunnel traffic to an Aruba controller on a user-role basis or device basis.

    For more information, see Configuring Tunnel Node Server on AOS-Switches.

  • Authentication—Administrators can now configure authentication order and priority for the authentication methods. This allows switch to authenticate the client requests sequentially.

    For more information, see Configuring Authentication Order and Priority.

  • RADIUS—Administrators can now configure ClearPass Server from the RADIUS page. This allows you to enable the switch to download the user-roles from the ClearPass server.

    For more information, see Configuring RADIUS Server Settings on AOS-Switches.

  • Downloadable User Role—Administrators can now enable Downloadable User Role and configure ClearPass settings to download user-roles, policy, and class from the ClearPass Policy Manager server.

    For more information, see Configuring Downloadable User Role on AOS-Switches.

  • Routing—Routing configuration is moved from the IP Settings tab to the Routing tab.

    For more information, see Configuring Routing on AOS-Switches.

  • DHCP—DHCP Pools configuration is renamed to DHCP and moved from the IP Settings tab to the System tab.

    For more information see Configuring DHCP on AOS-Switches.

  • Aruba Central does not support adding pre-configured switches to a UI group. Pre-configured switches that have pre-assigned UI switch groups are added to the Unassigned Devices group. To provision a pre-configured switch to a UI group or move a switch from a template group to a UI group, complete the following steps:

    1. Clear the switch configuration.
    2. Delete the device from Aruba Central.
    3. Provision the switch as a new device in a UI group.

    For more information, see Configuring AOS-Switches in UI Groups.

ClosedConfiguration Audit Enhancements

Following are the configuration audit enhancements:

For more information, see Verifying Device Configuration Status.

ClosedSingle Node Support

Aruba Central (on-premises) is a deployment of Aruba Central in your datacenter. Aruba now supports single node deployment for users with a deployment size of any of the following:

  • 1000 APs where APs can be either Instant APs, Campus APs, or APs along with the controllers that manage APs; or a mix of any of these devices.
  • 500 switches where switches can be AOS-S switches or CX switches or a mix of the two.
  • In a mixed mode of switches and APs, up to 800 APs and 200 switches are supported.

It also supports backing up and restoring system data from a single node deployment to three node deployment and above.

For more information, see Single Node Support

ClosedFirmware Enhancements

This release introduces the following enhancements to the Firmware dashboard:

  • The Set Compliance option now includes a toggle switch that allows you to enable or disable the set firmware compliance.
  • Upgrading all devices now include the Site level support. You can now upgrade all the devices using the Upgrade All option for a specific site or multiple sites. To upgrade all devices, in the global context, click Upgrade All option and select the sites from the Sites drop-down list.
  • The firmware devices tab now includes a Site column that displays the site at which the devices are associated.

For more information, see Upgrading Device Firmware.

ClosedUpgrade Watcher

This release introduces the Upgrade Watcher notification system that allows you to upgrade to the latest major available version. On user account login, the watcher checks for any version release and notifies you to upgrade within the set date. To know more about Upgrade Watcher, see Upgrade Watcher.

ClosedStreaming API

This release introduces the Streaming API tab in the Account Home > Global Settings > Webhooks dashboard. Streaming APIApplication Programming Interface. Refers to a set of functions, procedures, protocols, and tools that enable users to build application software. allows customers to subscribe to select set of services instead of polling the NB API to get an aggregated state or statistics of the events. Streaming API supports the following services:

  • Audit
  • AppRF
  • Monitoring
  • Location
  • Security

For more information, refer to API Reference Guide.

ClosedFloorplans Enhancements

This release introduces the following enhancements to the Floorplans feature:

  • If you unassign licenses from IAPs, they are now removed from the Floorplans and the deployed device-list. If you re-assign licenses to the IAPs, they are added back to the same Floorplan location and deployed device-list. Also, if the license gets auto-expired, the affected devices are removed. On license renewal, the affected devices are added back.

  • The navigation to the Floor plan dashboard from an AP is now improved. You can navigate to the floorplan for a specific site by using the floorplan available at the AP dashboard.

    To view the Floorplans page from an AP details page, complete the following steps:

    1. In the Network Operations app, set the filter to Global.
      The global dashboard is displayed.
    2. Under Manage > Devices, click Access Points.
      A list of APs is displayed in the List view.
    3. Click the Access Point name to view the Access Point Details page
      If there are many APs connected to the network, click Online or Offline to filter the online or offline APs.
    4. Optionally, enter the AP name in the Device Name column and then click the AP.
      The Access Point Details page is displayed.
    5. Under Manage > Overview, click Floor Plan.
      The floor plan details for the highlighted AP is displayed.
    6. Click anywhere on the floor plan to navigate to the floor plan for a site with the AP highlighted.

    The floor plan details for the AP is only accessible for the devices that are assigned with license.

For more information, see About Floorplans.

ClosedOffline Migration Support

Aruba Central (on-premises) now allows you to perform offline migration of the Device Inventory data and Visual RF data from AirWave to Aruba Central (on-premises) in the Global Settings > System Management > Migration tab of the Account Home page. You can now perform offline migration by uploading the backup file that was earlier downloaded from AirWave. The user need not have the AirWave 8.2.6.1 server up and running for an offline migration.

Offline migration is required when the user wants to deploy Aruba Central (on-premises) on the same AirWave server.

For more information see the Aruba Central (on-premises) Migration Guide.

ClosedMultiEdit Support for AOS-CX switches

Aruba Central (on-premises) UI now allows you to view and edit configurations of multiple AOS-CX switches in the MultiEdit mode of the AOS-CX switch configuration page. This mode supports editing the configuration of a maximum of 50 switches. For more information see the Aruba Central (on-premises) User Guide.

ClosedAI Insights Enhancements

The Aruba Central built-in AI Insights feature proactively identifies and solves network issues. The following enhancements are introduced in the AI Insights page:

For more information, see the following:

ClosedTroubleshooting Tools Enhancements

In the Network Operations app, use the filter to select a group, label, site, or a device and then, select Analyze > Tools to avail of different troubleshooting tools. The Tools menu option enables users to troubleshoot AP, controller, and switch issues in the network through various tests available within Network Check, Device Check, and Commands tabs. In this release, the troubleshooting tools have undergone the following enhancements:

For more information, see Using Troubleshooting Tools.

ClosedAlerts & Events Enhancements

The following enhancements are introduced in the Alerts & Events page:

  • Site-Specific Email Notifications for Alerts—Aruba Central (on-premises) enables you to add specific email addresses for each site. You can now configure site-specific email addresses, so that alert notifications for each site are sent to the respective site administrators. Since the email notifications are differentiated based on the site, it is possible for site administrators to only receive those alerts which are pertinent to their sites. You can add up to ten email addresses for each site.

    To configure an email address for a site, select a site in Aruba Central (on-premises) and navigate to the Alerts & Events page. When you configure email addresses in the site dashboard, the email settings for the site configured in the global dashboard are ignored.
    For more information, see Configuring Site-specific Email Notifications.

  • A new column, Elapsed Time is added in the Acknowledged Alerts table to show the timestamp difference between when a specific alert actually occurred and when that alert was acknowledged. For more information, see Viewing Alerts in List view.

  • The Events table offers additional details regarding events related to IAPs. For more information, see Viewing Events List View.
  • The following two new Central System alerts are added to notify customers regarding COP upgrade:
    • COP Upgrade Schedule
    • COP Upgrade Check Failed

    For more information, see Central System Alerts.

  • The following new Switch alerts are added:

    • Switch Uplink Port Usage—It generates an alert when the total uplink port usage of a switch at a site exceeds the configured value in gigabytes (GB) within a specified duration.

    • Switch NAE Status—It generates an alert when the NAE status for the AOS-CX switches exceed the Normal value.

      For more information, see Switch Alerts.

  • The following new AP alerts are added:
    • Radio Non WiFi Utilization—It generates an alert when the AP radio non-Wi-Fi utilization exceeds the threshold value.
    • AP Tunnel Down—It generates an alert when a single L3 tunnel is configured on the AP goes down.
    • All AP Tunnels Down—It generates an alert when all the L3 tunnels configured on the AP goes down.

      For more information, see Access Point Alerts.

ClosedTopology Enhancements

This release introduces the following enhancements to the Site > Topology tab:

  • The Topology tab now supports displaying the details about third party and Aruba-unmanaged devices available in your network. A new filter Third Party is introduced that enables you to show or hide the third party and Aruba-unmanaged devices in the topology map. An Aruba-unmanaged device is an Aruba or an HP device that is not managed by Aruba Central (on-premises).

  • The Topology tab now includes an Unreachable Devices pane that provides information about the orphan and the offline third-party devices. A third-party device is considered to be orphan when all its neighboring Aruba devices get deleted. A third-party device is considered to be offline when all its neighboring Aruba devices are offline.
  • The Topology tab now supports displaying the VLAN overlay details for AOS-Switch and AOS-CX switches.

For more information, see Monitoring Sites in the Topology Tab.

Closed Reporting Enhancements

The following is the list of enhancements for the Reports module in Aruba Central (on-premises):

  • Summary report—Administrators can now configure a report to view the following data for one year:
    • Trends such as Unique clients per day, Clients per SSID, Unique client sessions per day, Average client sessions per day, Average clients per day, and Usage over time.
    • Top N Widgets such as Top clients by usage, Top OS by usage, Top APs by usage, Bottom APs by usage, Top sites by WLAN usage, and Bottom sites by WLAN usage. The Top sites by WLAN usage and Bottom sites by WLAN usage options are only available when you select All in the Groups context level. For Top N widgets, you can choose Top 5, Top 10, Top 25, and Top 50 widgets.

For more information, see Reports .

ClosedUnified Communications

Multi-tier licensing is applicable to Unified Communications applications. For more information, see Unified Communications.

UCCUnified Communications and Collaboration. UCC is a term used to describe the integration of various communications methods with collaboration tools such as virtual whiteboards, real-time audio and video conferencing, and enhanced call control capabilities. is not supported on Instant AP.

ClosedSearch Enhancements

Following are the enhancements to the Central Search bar:

  • Aruba Central search shows cards with additional information specific to the search context. You can click on the search cards to navigate to that particular pages in the app. For more information on search cards, see Client Search Terms, Device Search Terms, and Site Search Terms pages.

ClosedNew and Deprecated APIs

Following are the new and deprecated APIs:

ClosedTopology

Following APIs are introduced in the Topology category:

[GET]:

  • /vlans/{site_id}
  • /unreachableDevices/{site_id}
ClosedAccess Points

Following APIs are introduced in the Monitoring > AP category:

[GET]:

Following APIs are deprecated:

[GET]:

  • /monitoring/v1/bssids
  • /monitoring/v2/aps/bandwidth_usage
  • /monitoring/v1/aps/bandwidth_usage/topn
  • /monitoring/v1/aps

The Label parameter in the new APIs supports only label filter request and returns empty result on site filter request. However, for the deprecated APIs, both the site and label filter request is supported in the Label parameter.

ClosedNetwork

Following APIs are introduced in the Monitoring > Network category:

[GET]:

  • /monitoring/v2/networks
  • /monitoring/v2/networks/{network_name}
  • /monitoring/v2/networks/bandwidth_usage

Following APIs are deprecated:

[GET]:

  • /monitoring/v1/networks
  • /monitoring/v1/networks/{network_name}
  • /monitoring/v1/networks/bandwidth_usage

The Label parameter in the new APIs supports only label filter request and returns empty result on site filter request. However, for the deprecated APIs, both the site and label filter request is supported in the Label parameter.

ClosedLicensing

Following APIs are introduced in the New Licensing category:

[GET]:

  • /platform/licensing/v1/subscriptions
  • /platform/licensing/v1/subscriptions/stats
  • /platform/licensing/v1/services/enabled
  • /platform/licensing/v1/services/config
  • /platform/licensing/v1/autolicensing/services/{service}/status
  • /platform/licensing/v1/customer/settings/autolicense
  • /platform/licensing/v1/msp/customer/settings/autolicense

[POST]:

  • /platform/licensing/v1/subscriptions/assign
  • /platform/licensing/v1/subscriptions/unassign
  • /platform/licensing/v1/subscriptions/devices/all
  • /platform/licensing/v1/msp/subscriptions/devices/all
  • /platform/licensing/v1/customer/settings/autolicense
  • /platform/licensing/v1/msp/customer/settings/autolicense

[DELETE]:

  • /platform/licensing/v1/subscriptions/devices/all

  • /platform/licensing/v1/msp/subscriptions/devices/all

  • /platform/licensing/v1/customer/settings/autolicense
  • /platform/licensing/v1/msp/customer/settings/autolicense

Following APIs are deprecated in the Deprecated Licensing category:

[GET]:

  • /subscriptions
  • /subscriptions/stats
  • /services/enabled
  • /subscriptions/assign
  • /services/config
  • /autolicensing/services/{service}/status
  • /customer/settings/autolicense
  • /msp/customer/settings/autolicense

[POST]:

  • /subscriptions/unassign
  • /subscriptions/devices/all
  • /subscriptions/devices/all
  • /msp/subscriptions/devices/all
  • /customer/settings/autolicense
  • /msp/customer/settings/autolicense

[DELETE]:

  • /subscriptions/devices/all
  • /msp/subscriptions/devices/all
  • /customer/settings/autolicense
  • /msp/customer/settings/autolicense