Course Overview
The Aruba Central instructor-led course covers the central campus cloud based management system that lets you centrally manage and monitor wired and wireless networks. This 2-day course covers the Aruba Central management service options for onboarding devices by managing Aruba Instant and Aruba Switches. Participants will view the advanced analytics services and connectivity health of devices and clients, providing insights into Wi-Fi analytics for smart business decisions. Understand how to simplify visitor access management with a fully secure and scalable guest access including guest cloud services. Through lecture and hands-on labs students discover the comprehensive alert management, device connectivity, network health, and user account activity with Aruba Central.
Who should attend
This course is ideal for technical personnel who want a deep-dive into Aruba Central and Network Administrators who need to centralize the management and configuration of Aruba IAP-Cluster AOS 8.x and AOS-S Switches.
Course Objectives
After you successfully complete this course, expect to be able to:
- Be able to use Central and its features
- Understand the differences between MSP and Central account
- Be able to customize an MSP account
- Create customers, groups and assign devices within Central
- Be familiar with Onboarding devices into Central
- Be able to describe different methods of Onboarding
- Understand the purpose and uses for Groups, Labels and Sites
- Be able to filter information using Groups, Labels and Sites
- Describe the importance of Guest Access
- Configure switches via Central
- Be familiar with VRF and Heatmaps and know your network topology
- Be able to plan a new network and know how to use network monitoring and troubleshooting.
- View your network health and troubleshoot client issues
- Maintain network security
- Customize alerts according to your needs
- Be familiar with your network applications
- Identify non Wi-Fi issues
- Be aware of the users passing by or entering your establishment
- Be familiar with the UC dashboard
- Use the UC dashboard to monitor UC quality
- Be familiar with Central’s administrative tasks
- Know how to add admin users and new certificates
- Know how to upgrade the network and create reports
Course Content
- Introduction
- MSP
- Onboarding
- Groups, Sites, Labels
- IAP and Aruba Switch Configuration
- Visual RF
- Monitoring & Troubleshooting
- Clarity, Presence analytic, AppRF
- UCC
- Administration and Maintenance