Managing Campus Networks with Aruba AirWave

Introduction to AWMS

• Airwave Platform
• Features and Benefits of AMP RAPIDS and Visual RF
• Airwave products
• Basic operations using AWMS

Installing AWMS

• Installing AMP
• Hardware requirements
• Cent OS and AWMS software
• Basic configuration steps
• Upgrade AWMS software
• Licensing AWMS
• AWMS documentation

Adding Device to AWMS

• Folders and Groups
• Adding devices general process
• Manually adding devices
• Device discovery and managing device discovery
• Moving a device to a folder
• Troubleshooting

IAP Organizaion and Groups

• Overview of IAP
• Airwave integration
• Golden configuration
• IAP Organization options
• IAP Whitelist

Using Visual RF and Visual RF Plan

• Navigation
• Setup
• Heat-maps and location information
• Import floorplan graphics
• Plan deployments
• Provision APs
• Manage Visual RF performance

Network Health

• Diagnostics page indicators
• Network performance tabs
• Source of issues
• Network issues

Troubleshooting Clients and Wireless Networks

• Searching for users and Diagnostics tab
• Client issues
• Network issues
• AP issues
• Switch/Controller issues
• General Issues

Rogue Detection and Using RAPIDS

• Why use RAPIDS
• Threat Detection Methods
• Rules
• Classifications
• IDS Events Report
• New Rogue Devices Report
• Visualization
• PCI Compliance
• WMS Offload

Managing Administrative Access, Alerts, Triggers and Reporting

• Configure role-based administrative use access to the AMP system
• Triggers
• Alerts
• Define and generate reports

Scalability and Redundancy

• VM Redundancy
• Failover for Redundancy
• Master Console for large deployments
• Multiple AMP Server deployments
• Large Deployment example

System Administration

• AMP Maintenance
• Device Maintenance

Wired Device Management

• Monitoring wired devices in AWMS
• Wired device port and interface information
• Wired device bandwith statistics and counters
• Managing and configuring wired devices via AWMS templates

AirWave Aruba Groups

• How AWMS configures devices
• Using groups to control policies
• Creating and controlling groups
• Basic Group Design
• Configuration Audits

IAP Template Configuration

• Fetching a Template
• Template Variables
• Templates Configuration

IAP GUI Configuration

• Golden configuration
• GUI mode
• GUI configuration

After you successfully complete this course, expect to be able to:

• Install AWMS 8.2.7
• Demonstrate adding devices on the network to the Airwave Management Server
• Understand Visual RF heatmaps and location information
• Demonstrate how to troubleshoot wireless network issues using Airwave
• Understand how to use RAPIDS to identify and locate rogues
• Demonstrate how to manage and administer an Airwave Management Suite and configure Devices using AWMS

• Introduction to AWMS
• Installing AWMS
• Adding Device to AWMS
• IAP Organizaion and Groups
• Using Visual RF and Visual RF Plan
• Network Health
• Troubleshooting Clients and Wireless Networks
• Rogue Detection and Using RAPIDS
• Managing Administrative Access, Alerts, Triggers and Reporting
• Scalability and Redundancy
• System Administration
• Wired Device Management
• AirWave Aruba Groups
• IAP Template Configuration
• IAP GUI Configuration