Introducing Customer Loyalty Tax

Introducing Customer Loyalty Tax

Taking a page out of Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac - we are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, four times as much by our folly, and now, thanks to Cisco,...

Two Different Ways to Debug a User on Aruba and Why You Would Choose Either

Two Different Ways to Debug a User on Aruba and Why You Would Choose Either

There are two distinct ways to debug users or stations.    One way is to enable debugging for ALL users.  The other is to enable debugging for only specific users. 1. To turn on debugging for all users:...

Tunneled Internet Gateway: Wi-Fi Access for Mobile Devices in High Security Environments

Tunneled Internet Gateway: Wi-Fi Access for Mobile Devices in High Security...

If the acronyms STIG" and "NIPRnet" are part of your vocabulary and you're trying to figure out how to deal with commercial mobile devices, this article is for you.

MAS Integration on Instant AP and Cloud WiFi

MAS Integration on Instant AP and Cloud WiFi

Aruba's Instant Access Point (IAP) and Mobility Access Switch (MAS) work well together to save administrators time in configuration and troubleshooting.   With an Aruba's Instant and Cloud access points,...

Cloud Wi-Fi and HybridControl: Flexibility for Distributed Enterprises

Cloud Wi-Fi and HybridControl: Flexibility for Distributed Enterprises

Today's distributed enterprise environments are driving WLAN admins insane.   How does one quickly configure VLANs, DHCP, and NAT so that different types of mobile users are both productive and secure?...

What is QAM?

What is QAM?

This blog is for anyone wanting to learn about QAM. It is written to help depict and describe aspects of QAM in a way that is hopefully easy to grasp. 256-QAM Symbol = 8 bits 2 ^ 8 bits = 256 Constellation...

[ArubaOS 6.3] Who is logging in and out of your controller and from where - "show audit-trail login"

[ArubaOS 6.3] Who is logging in and out of your controller and from where –...

The "show audit-trail" command can show you configuration commands that are typed on the commandline or on the GUI.  It can also show you who is logging in and out. Information about the command is here:...

[ArubaOS 6.3] New Packet Capture Functionality in ArubaOS 6.3

[ArubaOS 6.3] New Packet Capture Functionality in ArubaOS 6.3

The Aruba controller has had built-in packet capture functionality since day one. It supports streaming traffic to a host or saving a packet capture (.pcap) file to the controller for later analysis. The...

Aruba Central: Helpful Features for Distributed Enterprises

Aruba Central: Helpful Features for Distributed Enterprises

In distributed enterprise environments, cloud-managed access points can be very appealing.  By moving the access points' management plane into "the cloud", network administrators are able to turn up branch...

Custom RSS feed based off of Keyword Search

Custom RSS feed based off of Keyword Search

1. Go to discuss tab and search for "Keyword"     2. Change the results to sort by "date"     3. And subscribe to the RSS feed or bookmark the permanent link to the page (Permalink)     Now you have...