Shanghai Breakout: Advanced Airwave Workshop

Network Management with Aruba AirWave Sujatha Mandava

Dec 11 2014

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Agenda

Data Flow Into AirWave

Advanced Monitoring

Application Visibility

Lync

RF Performance

RF Capacity

Watched Clients

Visualization

UI

Configuration

Serviceabilty

Q & A

Data Flow Into AirWave

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Data Flow into AirWave

AirWave

ControllerVirtual

Controller

NMSEmail, SNMP, Syslog

Advanced Monitoring Features

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Application Visibility

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AppRF Reporting

• Top destinations and applications

• Top applications broken down by device type, WLAN, role

• Detailed section for one or more users

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AppRF Overlays

• AppRF overlay for clients

• Identifies clients contributing to the selected Application.

• Thresholds for showing red (high), orange and red usage for clients contributing to that application

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Lync & UCC

Visibility into Lync/UCC

• Dashboards Identify call quality issues and correlate with client health

• Lync call diagnostic per client

• Lync overlay with historical view of calls

• Lync Mobility trail to track historical call sessions

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RF Capacity

2 radios were

“heavily utilized”

80-100% of the

time.

(“Heavily utilized” is

80%+ utilization).

(Only “on time” is

considered. That is,

blocks of time the

radio is doing

something, not the

middle-of-the-night).

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RF Performance

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Watched Clients

Visualization

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VisualRF Improvements

• Conversion from Flash to HTML5

• New Overlays – UCC, AppRF, Channel

• Improved provisioning workflows

• Better UI layout

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VisualRF – Floor Upload Wizard

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Channel Overlay

• Channel Overlay in VisualRF

• Identify overlapping regions for all channels on a floorplan

UI

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8.0 UI Improvements – Views

• Select columns and filters to display the desired set of views

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UI Contd.. – Simpler Modify Devices

• Easy to use UI for Modify Devices

Configuration

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AOS Config Enhancements

AOS Features

• Local Config

• Bulk edit of overrides – a small set of variables like vlan

• AOS 6.4 configuration

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IGC: Just like Instant embedded UI

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IGC: multi-edit

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Switch config

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Serviceability

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Switch config

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Controller/Switch Backups

• Preserve controller backups and provision to restore functionality

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Shanghai Breakout: Advanced Airwave Workshop