Setting Up Aruba Instant and AirWave
Setting Up Aruba Instant and AirWave
Setting Up Aruba Instant and AirWave
John
Schaap
Director
Systems
Engineering
EMEA
jschaap@arubanetworks.com
+31622407110
There
are
two
ways
of
provisioning
Aruba
Instant
into
AirWave.
1. The
manual
mode
2. The
Automatic
mode
using
DHCP
option
43
&
60
Manually
setting
up
Aruba
Instant
On
the
Aruba
Instant
homepage
you
can
check
if
AirWave
is
setup
or
not.
Click
‘Set
Up
Now’
This
will
open
this
window.
Type
name
(organization)
for
this
Instant
and
IP
address
of
AirWave
and
type
a
shared
key.
After
this
you
will
see
that
the
Status
is
“Not
Connected”
Go
to
AirWave
and
find
the
role
that
Instant
automatically
created
for
you.
The
role
will
have
the
name
of
the
‘organization’
that
you
configured
in
Instant.
The
name
is
appended
by
Admin
so
in
this
case
‘Aruba-‐NL
Admin’
Click
the
pencil
symbol
and
enable
the
role
and
save.
You
will
also
see
here
that
AirWave
created
a
folder
for
you
with
the
name
of
the
organization.
You
will
now
see
that
AirWave
discovered
a
new
device
(New
Devices:
1).
Click
the
New
Devices
link
and
select
the
device
and
put
it
in
the
folder
that
was
created
for
this
device
and
in
a
group
of
your
choice.
Always
add
a
new
device
in
Monitor
Only
mode.
You
will
now
find
2
devices
(virtual
controller
and
AP)
in
your
folder.
It
can
take
some
minutes
before
the
devices
show
up
here.
Additional
Instant
AP’s
added
to
this
virtual
controller
will
automatically
show
up
in
the
folder
once
they
are
added
and
active.
AirWave
will
automatically
make
a
template
from
the
config
of
the
virtual
controller.
Automatically
setting
up
Aruba
Instant
Configure
your
DHCP
scope
with
Option
43
and
60
Option
43
=
ArubaInstantAP
Option
60
=
name,amp-‐ip-‐address,password.
The
three
pieces
of
information
should
be
specified
using
comma
separators
without
any
spaces.
Organization
is
optional
(e.g
‘,192.168.1.211,aruba123’
is
allowed.
Note
the
leading
comma.
Reset
your
IAP
to
factory
default
state
and
reboot
the
IAP.
You
will
see
that
the
IAP
will
create
a
new
role
automatically
with
the
name
that
you
have
used
in
option
43.
It
will
append
the
name
with
“Admin”
so
it
becomes
“homelab-‐iap
Admin”.
Click
the
pencil
symbol
to
edit
the
role
and
enable
the
role.
You
will
also
see
that
a
user
is
created
automatically
And
a
group
is
created
automatically
Also
note
that
1
new
device
is
discovered.
Click
“New
Devices”
and
add
them
to
the
group
that
was
created
automatically.
You
can
add
the
devices
to
the
default
folder
or
any
other
folder
of
your
choice.
Add
the
devices
in
Monitor
Only
mode
for
now.
In
the
group
“homelab-‐iap”
you
will
now
find
both
the
VC
and
AP
You
need
to
connect
to
the
IAP
to
set
the
Country
Code.
Note
that
the
IAP
will
now
also
show
the
AirWave
IP
address
and
that
the
AirWave
status
is:
Connected
AMP
will
import
a
template
of
the
config
of
the
IAP
and
you
can
decide
to
move
the
IAP
from
Monitor
Only
mode
to
Manage
Read/Write.
Config
changes
made
on
the
template
will
then
automatically
be
send
to
the
IAP.