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It seems there isn’t a vendor out there that makes creating a P2P Mesh link easy. Aruba controller configuration can be complicated and creating a P2P mesh link seemed like a daunting task (until, of course, you do it enough and get used to it, then everything is easy). I found a few decent articles… Continue Reading Aruba P2P Mesh – AOS8
During my recent Wireless Adjuster II class I got introduced to Airtool Pi (new tool created by Adrian Granados). If you have been using Airtool or Airtool 2, you will certainly love this, cost is $14.99 and it is worth every penny. All you need is a WLANPi (Neo 2 is what I used; you… Continue Reading Testing Airtool Pi
This past week I attended the Wireless Adjust II class taught by Devin Akin. I recall attending the very first class back in 2020, that was a beta class, and we all had a great time attending that class. You can read more here. I knew that Devin had added lots of new content in… Continue Reading Wireless Adjuster II – 2022
I have written about Wyebot and some features you can use in my previous blog post. I also talked about a couple of use case scenarios. In this post, I want to review correlation and troubleshooting steps using the Wyebot interface. Let’s look at one of the Wyebot sensor. Below, I summarize all the issues… Continue Reading Troubleshooting with Wyebot
AI/ML, Automation are few terms that every vendor is talking about in the tech industry. Each vendor has their own flavor of AI/ML engines with different feature sets. Regardless of their path end goal is “better end user experience”. Managing and operating a wireless network for thousands of users across different sites can be quite… Continue Reading Wyebot – Wireless Intelligence Platform™(WIP)
In one of the previous blog posts, I wrote about my initial thoughts on Aruba Central APIs; I discussed the initial setup to generate the keys and used a script to refresh the keys since the API Token for Aruba Central expires after 7200 seconds (2 hours). It is easy to refresh a token using… Continue Reading Aruba Central – Automate API Key Refresh
I wrote about converting an Aruba CAP to IAP. I needed to convert the Aruba IAP to a CAP for some testing; one important piece of information in this scenario was that the IAP was in Aruba Central. If you are converting an Aruba IAP that is not in Central, you log into the IAP… Continue Reading Aruba Central IAP to CAP
Whenever I log into my Juniper-Mist Dashboard, I am always excited to see “Announcing New Features” message. See full updates here. I would love to point out couple of features that I have been waiting for that Juniper-Mist implemented: Sponsored Guest Access: I wrote a post previously on “Sponsored Guest Access and Self Registration“. In… Continue Reading Juniper-Mist Updates
This is just a short post for my reference on converting a CAP to IAP. This can be completed via the UI or CLI. From the UI: From the menu on the left; Maintenance, Access Point. There are three options here: 1) Reboot, 2)Convert to instant mode, 3)Preload Image. From here, I am able to… Continue Reading Aruba – Convert CAP to IAP
My last post was about creating a Guest SSID in Mist Dashboard with some BYOD self register and self sponsor features. I mentioned few requirements in there; one of them was to enable and disable the SSID. Let me elaborate a bit more on that. I can log into my laptop, Mist Dashboard and disable… Continue Reading Mist AI – Ask Siri To Enable/Disable SSID