Detailed Course Outline
HPE Aruba Networking Central overview
- HPE GreenLake architecture
- HPE Aruba Networking product portfolio
- Switch management overview
- Monitoring and troubleshooting features
HPE Aruba Networking Central architecture
- Navigation
- Hierarchy
Floor Plan Manager and topology
Monitoring HPE Aruba Networking Central
- Monitoring sites
- Network monitoring
- Client monitoring
- Application monitoring
Troubleshooting
- Methodology
- Tools and resources
- Audit Trail
- AI Insights
- Alerts
HPE Aruba Networking Central API capabilities
- API overview
- REST API overview
- Generating and managing access tokens
- Make API calls in the HPE Aruba Networking Developer Hub
Administration and reporting
- Identity and access control
- Resource restrictions policy
- User audit logs
- Certificate management
- Manage reports
Basics of switch management
- Onboarding a switch
- Switch configuration profiles
- API and GUI
Switch system configuration
- Common system configurations
- Source interface and SNMP configuration
- Switch administration and system details
- Switch firmware recommendations
Configuring VLANs
- LANs and VLANs
- Creating a VLAN profile
- Named VLAN profile
Ports and link aggregation
- LAG concepts and prerequisites
- Switch port configuration
- LAG configuration
Loop prevention methods
- Loops in a network switch
- Loop prevention mechanisms
- STP anomaly recommender
Switch high availability
- Introduction to VSF
- VSF configuration and management
- VSF monitoring and troubleshooting
- HPE Aruba Networking Virtual Switching eXtension
Configuring SVIs
- Routing
- Layer 3 routing
- Layer 3 analysis
- Inter VLAN routing and multilayer switch
- Multilayer interface type
- Configuring SVI in HPE Aruba Networking Central
Routing fundamentals
- Introduction to routing
- Static routes
- Virtual Routing and Forwarding
WLAN fundamentals and RF basics
- RF bands and channels
- 802.11 standards and amendments
- RF basics
- Antenna technology
- Radio technologies
- RF transmit power
- WLAN mobility
HPE Aruba Networking security-first, AI-powered networking
- Network challenges at the edge
- AI-powered analytics
- Built-in security
- Automation and orchestration
AOS-10 architecture
- Product line
- Supported hardware
AOS-10 access points
- Difference from Instant APs
- What is AirMatch?
- What is ClientMatch?
- Groups
- Configuring WLAN on AOS-10 APs only
- Monitoring
HPE Aruba Networking user roles
- HPE Aruba Networking firewall
- Roles, policies, and rules
- Role derivation example
- Identity-based HPE Aruba Networking firewall
- Access control rules
- Application rule
- Aliases
- Global and WLAN policies
Deployments with gateways
- When to use gateways
- AOS-10 gateway modes
- AP to gateway connections
- Tunnel orchestration
- Switch to gateway connections
- Gateway to gateway tunnels
- Gateway cluster
- Cluster configuration
- Cluster monitoring
- Deployment with gateways
Tunnel forwarding mode
- Tunnel orchestrator
- Configuring tunneled SSIDs
- Mixed forwarding mode
Microbranch
- Microbranch configuration
- Policy-based routing
Cloud services
- WAN link bandwidth requirement
- Live upgrade service
- AP upgrade
- Gateway upgrade
- Key management
- HPE Aruba Networking Central licensing