This course teaches you the foundational skills in Network Access Control using the HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass product portfolio. This 5-day course includes both instructional modules and labs to help you understand about the major features in the product portfolio. You will learn how to setup set up HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass as an AAA server, and configure the Policy Manager, Guest, OnGuard and Onboard feature sets. In addition, this course covers integration with external Active Directory servers, monitoring and reporting, as well as deployment best practices. You will gain insight into configuring authentication with HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass on both wired and wireless networks.

After you successfully complete this course, expect to be able to:

• Implement a ClearPass network access solution
• Design and apply effective services and enforcement in ClearPass
• Troubleshoot a ClearPass solution

• Introduction to ClearPass
  - BYOD
  - High level overview
  - Posture and profiling
  - Guest and Onboard
• AAA
  - Policy service rules
  - Authentication, authorization, and roles
  - Enforcement policy and profiles
• External devices
  - Network access devices
  - Messaging services
  - External context servers
• Endpoint profiling
  - Introduction to profiling
  - Profiling collectors
  - External collectors and profilers
• Roles and enforcement
  - Services
  - Enforcement
  - ClearPass roles
• Configuring services
  - Service selection rules
  - Creating services
• Configuring web services
  - Content Manager
  - Skins
  - Web page editor
• Guest authentication
  - Captive portal process
  - Web logins
  - Guest accounts
  - Guest access with MAC authentication
• Guest access self registration
  - Self registration experience
  - Configuring self registration
  - Self registration process
• Wired authentication
  - Wired access
  - Wired enforcement
  - Profiling on wired ports
• Downloadable user roles
  - Requirements for DUR
  - DUR enforcement profiles
• Dynamic Segmentation
  - What is Dynamic Segmentation?
  - How it works
  - Configuring Dynamic Segmentation
• ClearPass OnGuard Software configuration
  - Postures
  - Posture policies
  - ClearPass OnGuard Software agent
  - Monitoring ClearPass OnGuard Software
• ClearPass OnGuard Software in enforcement
• ClearPass OnGuard Software workflow
  - ClearPass OnGuard Software enforcement
• ClearPass Onboard Software provisioning
  - Configuring certificate authorities
  - Portal setup
  - Configuring services
• ClearPass Onboard Software Administration
  - Managing certificates
  - Managing users and devices
  - Certificate revocation and OCSP
• Administrative operations
  - Licenses
  - Certificates
  - Updates and upgrades
  - Gathering logs
• ClearPass cluster
  - Cluster structure
  - Policy Manager zones
  - High availability
• Administrative access
  - Admin access to NADs
  - Admin access to Policy Manager
  - Guest operator logins
• ClearPass Device Insight reports
  - Alerts
  - Reports
  - Administration