Advanced Aruba Airwave Workshop #AirheadsConf Italy

1. Airwave Workshop
Dan Comfort
June 2014

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Agenda
AirWave overview
Diagnosing client RF
problems
Proactive
management
Triggers & Alerts
VisualRF
Reports
Rogue detection
Multi-server cluster

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Deployment options
Aruba AirWave
Appliances
Professional
Appliance – up to
1500 devices
Enterprise Appliance
– up to 4000 devices
Install on your own
hardware
Up to 5000 devices

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AirWave manages it all
Aruba
WLAN
Aruba
Networks
Controllers &
APs
Instant
Wired
Aruba
Any MIB-II
compliant
device
Legacy
WLAN
Migrate from
Cisco
Motorola
Legacy
Users &
Devices
Classification &
reporting
Integration with
MDM
Monitor
network activity
Outdoor /
Mesh
Aruba
AirMesh
Aruba
AP175/AP275

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AirWave data flow
AirWave
Controller
Virtual
Controller
NMSEmail, SNMP, Syslog

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Groups, Folders, Roles
Groups are used for
• Device configuration
• Firmware policies
Use as few groups as possible to simplify
configuration management and auditing

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Groups, Folders, Roles
Folders are hierarchical and
are used for:
• Reporting
• Alerting
• Access control
Organize them in a way that’s
logical

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Groups, Folders, Roles
Roles govern AirWave users’:
• Access Control
• Privilege Level

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Agenda
AirWave overview
Diagnosing client RF
problems
Proactive
management
Triggers & Alerts
VisualRF
Reports
Rogue detection
Multi-server cluster

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Agenda
AirWave overview
Diagnosing client RF
problems
Proactive
management
Triggers & Alerts
VisualRF
Reports
Rogue detection
Multi-server cluster

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Agenda
AirWave overview
Diagnosing client RF
problems
Proactive
management
Triggers & Alerts
VisualRF
Reports
Rogue detection
Multi-server cluster

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Agenda
AirWave overview
Diagnosing client RF
problems
Proactive
management
Triggers & Alerts
VisualRF
Reports
Rogue detection
Multi-server cluster

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Agenda
AirWave overview
Diagnosing client RF
problems
Proactive
management
Triggers & Alerts
VisualRF
Reports
Rogue detection
Multi-server cluster

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VisualRF Rogues and
Interferers
Visualize Rogue
AP Location
Locate Interference
sources

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Agenda
AirWave overview
Diagnosing client RF
problems
Proactive
management
Triggers & Alerts
VisualRF
Reports
Rogue detection
Multi-server cluster

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20 pre-defined reports to choose from…
…or make a custom report from any combination of the 170+ “sections” available above

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Agenda
AirWave overview
Diagnosing client RF
problems
Proactive
management
Triggers & Alerts
VisualRF
Reports
Rogue detection
Multi-server cluster

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Agenda
AirWave overview
Diagnosing client RF
problems
Proactive
management
Triggers & Alerts
VisualRF
Reports
Rogue detection
Multi-server cluster

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AirWave single server
SNMP trap recvr
AMON recvr
SNMP pollers
swarm handler
work
queue
ALC workers
database
AW-RRD
UI
report gen
config gen/audit
Visual RF
message bus

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AirWave Cluster Architecture
database backup
SNMP trap recvr
SNMP pollers
swarm handler
work queue via [distributed] RabbitMQ message bus
UI report gen config gen/audit
Visual RF
database
database master
ALC workers ALC workers ALC workers
Visual RFVisual RF
worker machine #3worker machine #2worker machine #1
AMON recvr
OpenTSDBOpenTSDBOpenTSDB

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Thank You
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