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On premise IT operations management for multi-vendor campus networks
Aruba AirWave is a scalable, full featured management
solution for multi-vendor wired and wireless networks.
Organizations gain the visibility, control and troubleshooting
tools required to fully manage today’s distributed
enterprise environments.
AirWave integrates conguration and deployment and
real-time visibility and control for comprehensive
management and troubleshooting. This provides a exible
platform for maintaining the reliability and performance of
Aruba access points, controllers, switches, and selected
multi-vendor devices.
STREAMLINED CONFIGURATION AND
DEPLOYMENT
AirWave utilizes conguration groups, assigned templates,
and step by step workows to simplify device conguration.
Entire cong les can be imported, compared, assigned and
archived. Modifying and using smaller segments of
conguration les across groups of devices is also supported.
KEY FEATURES
• Unied Wired and Wireless Network Management
• Simplied Deployment Models
• Broad Visibility and Control
• Proactive Troubleshooting
• Physical and Virtual Appliances
• Enhanced Security and App Visibility
• Trac Analysis – helps to monitor application usage
and policy enforcement across the entire network. Tracks
web categories, client destinations and relative trust
levels. Details are displayed by network, roles, device type
and users.
• UCC Analytics – a consolidated view of how VoIP
applications are performing displays MOS scores, and
potential RF performance and capacity issues.
These capabilities allow IT to quickly add, modify and deploy
devices across distributed locations, while saving time and
minimizing mistakes. Aruba’s Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP)
can be used to automatically push conguration les to
devices to further simplify the deployment process.
Integrated auditing is also provided for security and
change management.
REAL-TIME VISIBILITY AND CONTROL
AirWave provides detailed health and analytics dashboards
to monitor critical applications and services, including:
• Network Health – used to view client usage, monitoring
and conguration compliance, alert summaries and other
selected statistics.
Figure 1: Aruba AirWave Dashboard
For detailed device visibility, simply click a chart or graph to
drill-down from any network level view, or locate and select a
device for a conguration summary and details on connected
clients, neighbors, alerts and related events.
When looking at switch information, additional visibility into
key values of individual and stacked switches is provided.
This includes port status, PoE consumption, VLAN
assignment, device and neighbor connections, power status
and trends, alerts and events and which troubleshooting
actions can be performed.
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Figure 3: Aruba AirWave Topology View
Stage-based Connectivity Health
A reliable connection is the foundation of a successful user
experience. AirWave monitors the connectivity of clients, to
proactively help identity and resolve issues. Data points
include client association, as well as network authentication
and DHCP metrics.
Figure 2: Aruba AirWave Switch Faceplate View
COMPREHENSIVE MANAGEMENT AND
TROUBLESHOOTING
Role-Based Access, Discovery and Topology
AirWave utilizes a role-based model for administrative access.
Multiple combinations of access and management rights can
be assigned as needed. AirWave allows IT to protect the
environment and provides the ability to tailor administrative
access based on assigned scope and responsibilities.
AirWave also discovers and maps devices across the entire
environment, including those with distributed locations. The
resulting topology map shows upstream relationships
between APs, controllers and switches in order to assess the
impact on related devices and clients, and to isolate root
cause of issues.
Figure 4: Aruba AirWave Connectivity Health
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VisualRF for Wi-Fi Visibility & Management
Real-time views of actual oorplan maps make it easy to see
RF coverage issues, location of all access points, and possible
interference points. The result is a comprehensive view of
how the network is performing, and potential trouble spots.
Selectable overlays show client health, trac thresholds, UCC
performance and channel utilization to quickly diagnose
client, building, oor or location specic issues.
VisualRF also provides the ability to capture and playback
physical movement of devices and clients within locations to
isolate and troubleshoot those challenging intermittent
mobility issues.
RAPIDS for Intrusion Detection
AirWave utilizes Aruba’s Rogue AP Intrusion Detection
Service (R APIDS), to identify and resolve issues caused by
rogue access points, and clients.
Wired and wireless data is correlated to identify relevant
threats, while reducing false positives to strengthen network
security. RAPIDS includes:
AirWave virtual appliances are supported on VMware,
Microsoft Hyper-V and KVM.
GOVERNMENT-GRADE CERTIFICATIONS
AirWave is highly secure, and has achieved the Federal
Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 140-2
validation, a government level computer security standard for
cryptographic modules (Certicate #2577). See detailed
security documentation for more information.
• Summary Data – percentage of device classication and
acknowledgments, and device counts by type.
• Lists & Events – concise summaries of devices by type and
events by severity, category and scope.
• Rules Engine - easily dene and edit wireless, wired, and
controller properties to detect rogues, classications and
threat levels.
Firmware Upgrade & Compliance
An advanced image upgrade and compliance module, makes
it easy to update rmware by device type or version group,
split download images, and schedule updates during o
hours to minimize the impact during peak operations.
FLEXIBLE PLATFORM OPTIONS
AirWave is available on pre-congured hardware appliances
or in virtual machine (VM) versions.
AirWave hardware appliances are designed and tested to
meet the following guidelines:
• AirWave Pro appliance supports up to 1,500 managed
network devices.
• AirWave Enterprise appliance supports up to 4,000
managed network devices.
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HARDWARE APPLIANCES
Category Pro Appliance Enterprise Appliance
Appliance Specications
CPU 8-core 2.6 Ghz HPE DL360 Gen9 E5-2640v3 2 8-core 2.6 Ghz HPE DL360 Gen9 E5-2640v3
Memory 48GB 96GB
Storage 6 300GB 12G SAS 15K 2.5in SC ENT HDD 8 300GB 12G SAS 15K 2.5in SC ENT HDD
Appliance Scalability
Maximum Managed Devices 1,500 4,000
Power
Power 500W FS Plat Hot Plug Power Supply 500W FS Plat Hot Plug Power Supply
Power Supply Optional redundant power supply Optional redundant power supply
AC Input Voltage 110/220 VAC Auto-Selecting 110/220 VAC Auto-Selecting
AC Input Frequency 50/60 Hz Auto-Selecting 50/60 Hz Auto-Selecting
Physical
Rackmount 1U SFF Easy Install Rail
1U Cable Management Arm
Dimensions
(H x W x D)
Weight 33.3 lb. (15.31 kg) max 33.3 lb. (15.31 kg) max
HP SmartDrives 8 + 2 SFF/4 LFF max, HDD/SSD 8 + 2 SFF/4 LFF max, HDD/SSD
Networking 4 x 1GbE embedded + FlexibleLOM slot 4 x 1GbE embedded + FlexibleLOM slot
VGA/serial/USB ports Front VGA opt, rear VGA standard, and serial opt.,
GPU support Two single-wide and active to 9.5” in length,
Industry compliance ASHRAE A3 and A4, lower idle power ASHRAE A3 and A4, lower idle power
Warranty
Hardware 1 year parts 1 year parts
Software 90 days 90 days
1.7 x 17.1 x 27.5 inches
(4.32 x 43.47 x 69.85 cm)
5 USB 3.0
up to 150 W each
1U SFF Easy Install Rail
1U Cable Management Arm
1.7 x 17.1 x 27.5 inches
(4.32 x 43.47 x 69.85 cm)
Front VGA opt, rear VGA standard, and serial opt.,
5 USB 3.0
Two single-wide and active to 9.5” in length,
up to 150 W each
ORDERING INFORMATION
Part Number Description
JW546AAE Aruba LIC-AW Aruba Airwave with RAPIDS and VisualRF 1 Device License E-LTU
JW558AAE Aruba AW-25-FR AirWave 25 Device Failover License E-LTU
JW559AAE Aruba AW-50-FR AirWave 50 Device Failover License E-LTU
JW560AAE Aruba AW-100-FR AirWave 100 Device Failover License E-LTU
JW561AAE Aruba AW-200-FR AirWave 200 Device Failover License E-LTU
JW562AAE Aruba AW-500-FR AirWave 500 Device Failover License E-LTU
JW563AAE Aruba AW-1000-FR 1000 AirWave Device Failover License E-LTU
JW564AAE Aruba AW-2500-FR 2500 AirWave Device Failover License E-LTU
JW565AAE Aruba AW-EXF1-50 AirWave 50 Device Failover Expansion License E-LTU
JW566AAE Aruba AW-EXF1-2500 AirWave 2500 Volume Failover Expansion License E-LTU
JW567AAE Aruba AW-MASTER AirWave Master Console License E-LTU
JX918A Aruba AirWave DL360 Professional Edition Hardware Appliance
JX919A Aruba AirWave DL360 Enterprise Edition Hardware Appliance
JZ075A Aruba AW-HW-GLASS AirWave Hardware Appliance for Centralized Monitoring
JZ076AAE Aruba AW-VA-GLASS AirWave Virtual Appliance for Centralized Monitoring E-LTU
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