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Course Overview

This advanced three day instructor-led class provides an overview of methodologies and tools for troubleshooting Aruba based networks. Labs are designed to inject problems into the student networks in a controlled fashion to demonstrate how various symptoms appear. Therefore, when problems are seen in a production environment, they will be more quickly identified and remedied.

Who should attend?

This course is designed for individuals responsible for the provisioning and configuration maintenance of an Aruba based network. This course is not a hardware troubleshooting oriented class. Rather it focuses on the commands and screens necessary to diagnose network and wireless related issues.

Prerequisites

Knowledge level at the ACMP level. Students must be comfortable with provisioning profiles for various aspects of the Aruba Controller. The labs are written as objectives and are not documented in a step by step manner. Therefore, the student must know how to provision a controller without reliance upon detailed lab instructions.

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This hands-on course provides the knowledge and experience required to install and use the AirWave Wireless Management Suite (AWMS): AirWave Management Platform (AMP), RAPIDS, and Visual RF. Structured labs provide students individual time with the AMP server and a series of exercises that progress from monitoring single-vendor networks to the configuration and reporting of complex, multi-vendor networks. Students also learn how to integrate AirWave products into an existing network. The course is WLAN vendor neutral and assumes a heterogeneous network.

AWMS Installation, Configuration and Use is appropriate for those new to the AirWave platform and provides an opportunity for the student to become familiar with the functions and capability of the product in a controlled lab environment.

This course covers the following topics:

• Getting Started with AMP
• Installing AMP
• AMP Server Configuration and Integration
• AMP Device Discovery and Basic Configuration
• Using RAPIDS to Identify Rogue Access Points
• Using Visual RF to Improve Device Location
• Troubleshooting Wireless Networks
• Configuring and Using AMP with Aruba Devices
• Configuring and Using AMP with Cisco IOS Devices
• Configuring and Using AMP with Cisco Airespace Devices
• Configuring and Managing Other Wireless Devices
• AirWave System Administration
• Upgrading AirWave Products

Prerequisites:

• Basic WLAN terminology and concepts
• Knowledge of wired and wireless networking design and operations
• Experience installing network monitoring software

The lab-intensive Implementing Aruba WLANs course is designed to provide students the knowledge, skills and practical experience required to set up and configure a basic Aruba WLAN.

Using lecture and labs, the class provides the technical understanding and hands-on experience of configuring a single-controller, single AP Aruba WLAN. Students will practice using Aruba hardware and ArubaOS to install and build a complete, secure single-controller network with multiple SSIDs. Class time is divided with approximately 40% lecture and 60% labs.

Successful conclusion of the course and in-class exam earns the participant the Aruba Certified Mobility Associate (ACMA) status.

This course covers the following topics:

• Aruba Architecture and Features
• Mobility Controller initial setup and licensing using ArubaOS wizards
• Using ArubaOS RF Plan to place access points and air monitors in a wireless network
• Provisioning Aruba thin APs using wizards and the GUI
• Implementing Roles and Firewall Policies
• Using WLAN policies to create a Secure Employee WLAN with 802.1X
• Using WLAN policies to create a Secure Guest WLAN with Captive Portal authentication
• Remote Access Point (RAP)
• Overview of Aruba OS GUI and CLI commands
• ACMA in-class exam

Prerequisites:

Networking Fundamentals (online training, free of charge)

Introduction to Aruba Technology (online training, free of charge)

Using lectures and labs, the 3-day Scalable WLAN Design and Implementation (SWDI) course builds upon concepts introduced in the Implementing Aruba WLANs course. SWDI covers content enabling the student to understand and implement advanced topics included in Aruba's firewall features such as policy design, authentication and role derivation. Additionally, it covers subject material for building complex networks using Aruba's Remote APs and multi-controller environments based upon the Campus WLAN Reference Architecture 3.3 for network design and redundancy.

This course covers the following topics:

• Review of Aruba infrastructure
  
  • Initial controller setup lab
• Advanced Firewall
  
  • Basic firewall review
  • Detailed policy discussion
  • Policy creation
  • Assigning policies to AP groups
  • Understanding the valid user ACL
  • Client blacklisting
  • Protecting wired ports
  • Aruba ACLs
  • Global firewall policy
  • Aliases and destinations
  • Bandwidth contracts
  • Lab - common protocol policy for all users
  • Lab - client blacklist policy for guest users
  • Lab - assigning ACLs to wired ports to protect the management interface
  • Lab - creating and assigning bandwidth contracts to users
  • Authentication, roles, and derivation
• Wired Access
  
  • Secure Jack
  • Wired Multiplexers
  • Configuring Secure Jack operation
  • Lab - Configuring secure jack " RAP
• RAP review
  
  • Forwarding modes
  • Configuring bridge mode
  • Configuring split tunnel
  • Redundancy operation modes
  • Hotel connect
  • Server redundancy
  • Slow link support
  • IKE PSK refresh
  • RAP provisioning review
  • Lab - Configuring split tunnel policy
  • Lab - Applying split tunnel policy to users in the RAP AP group
  • Lab - Configuring hotel connect
  • Lab - Provisioning RAP APs " Master/local operation
• Master/local benefits
  
  • Inter-controller IPSec
  • Controller specific AP Groups
  • Lab - Reprovisioning controllers for master/local operation using the Setup Wizard
  • Lab - Reprorvisioning APs for master/local operation
• Mobility
  
  • 802.11 mobility review
  • L2 vs. L3 mobility
  • Understanding mobility domains
  • Configuring mobility domains
  • VLAN pooling
  • Lab - Configure L3 mobility and the home agent table
• Master redundancy
  
  • Understanding master redundancy
  • Configuring master redundancy and VRRP
  • Lab - Configuring master redundancy and VRRP
• Local redundancy
  
  • Understanding N+1 redundancy
  • Understanding active-active redundancy using VRRP
  • Lab - Configuring local redundancy using active-active and VRRP
• Wireless intrusion prevention
  
  • L1 attacks
  • L2 attacks
  • Management of IDS events
  • Rogue AP detection, location, and containment
  • Lab - Air monitor group creation and provisioning
  • Lab - Rogue containment

Prerequisites:

• Aruba Certified Mobility Associate (ACMA) certification required
• Implementing Aruba WLANs course recommended
• Ability to provision an Aruba controller with multiple SSIDs, captive portal and 802.1X