Configuration Example, HPE Aruba
Aruba AOS 10 and Mesh Networking
Mesh networking is not something you configure every day, but in certain scenarios it becomes the only viable solution. Typical reasons include locations where structured cabling is impossible, or—as in this case—when there is no physical connection available between two separate buildings. For this setup, I configured a dedicated AP group specifically for mesh access … Read More
HPE Aruba, Management, Wireless
Deploy HPE 9106 gateways
Twice in the last couple of weeks I ran into issues while deploying HPE 9106 gateways with Central. In both cases, the gateways came out of the box running ArubaOS 8.13.1.0. I provisioned them using the enable-debug and static-activate commands. After configuring the required IP information, the gateway rebooted, contacted Activate and… nothing happened. The … Read More
Uninstalling the HPE Axis Connector on Ubuntu
Why docker stop Fails (and how to fix it properly). At first glance, the HPE Axis Connector looks like a simple Docker-based agent. In reality, it installs a full local Kubernetes environment. This often causes confusion, especially during uninstallation. In this blog post I explain: THE PROBLEM After running the official uninstaller for Ubuntu: The … Read More
Troubleshooting: FortiGate and RADIUS
I recently encountered a strange case where RADIUS authentication on a FortiGate cluster was failing on the secondary node. The cluster uses multiple VDOMs configured in a vcluster, and each FortiGate has its own out-of-band management IP. Authentication had been working fine previously. On the secondary FortiGate, I enabled debugging to see if authentication requests … Read More
MacOS Big Sur and SSLKEYFILELOG
Today I had to decrypt SSL/TLS traffic from my browser. There are a lot of resource available to explain the steps necessary to capture traffic and decrypt the traffic, like How to Decrypt SSL with Wireshark – HTTPS Decryption Guide. However, I noticed that my ssl-keys.log file wasn’t populated when starting Chrome of Firefox. The … Read More
ClearPass, Management, Security
ClearPass, Azure AD, SSO and Object ID
Single sign-on is nothing new and I am not going to tell you how to configure ClearPass to use SAML SSO with Azure AD. There is a lot of documentation available, like: Flomian Networking – ClearPass SSO with Azure AD ClearPass Onboard Cloud Identity Providers This post is about an issue I was facing with … Read More