This course teaches you the fundamental skills necessary to configure and manage modern, open standards-based networking solutions. This course consists of approximately 20% lecture and 80% hands-on lab exercises to help you learn how to implement and validate small to medium enterprise network solutions.

In this course, participants learn about ArubaOS switch technologies including: VLANs, secure access, redundancy technologies such as MSTP, link aggregation techniques including LACP, and switch virtualization with Aruba’s Virtual Switching Framework (VSF). You also learn about IP Routing including static and dynamic IP routing with OSPF.

This course teaches you how to deploy Aruba wireless Access Points and configure Aruba Instant Access Point (IAP) Clustering technology. It also teaches you how to configure, manage and monitor the network with the Aruba AirWave management solution. It also prepares candidates to take the Aruba Certified Switching Associate (ACSA) v1 certification exam.

IT professionals looking to build their networking knowledge and gain insight to campus switching solutions. That also includes Aruba Certified Mobility certification holders wanting to combine the deployment of campus switching and mobility solutions.

Experience and knowledge of the OSI Model, IP Addressing and Subnettting, TCP/UDP, VLANs, Spanning Tree and Routing would be beneficial.

​Introduction to Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company

Describe market trends that are causing customers to transform in four key Transformation Areas

Describe how Aruba delivers the digital workplace

Describe out-of-band management

Complete the initial setup on ArubaOS switches

Verify configuration

Explanation of in-band management

Protect in-band and out-of-band management access

Configure local authentication

Control the privilege level allowed to managers

Overview of ArubaOS and file structures

Different methods for setting the software from which to boot

Software update

Saving and restoring configurations

Explain use cases for VLANs

Configure port-based VLANs on ArubaOS switches, using appropriate tagging

Implement basic IP routing between directly connected VLANs or links

Understand and configure Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)

Understand how Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) provides load sharing and implement MSTP

Differentiate between different types of link aggregation and understand the benefits of Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)

Configure and troubleshoot link aggregation on ArubaOS switches

Configure static routes on ArubaOS switches

Interpret IP routing tables

Configure a basic OSPF solution

Understand how VSF works and the advantages that it provides

Configure and verify a simple VSF fabric

Understand the basics of wireless communications and 802.11 standards

Define a WLAN and differentiate between wireless security options

Configure basic settings on Aruba Instant Access Point (IAP)

Form an Aruba Instant cluster

Configure AirWave management settings on an IAP cluster

Configure SNMP v2c settings on ArubaOS switches

Discover ArubaOS switches in AirWave and bring switches and IAPs under monitoring and management

Implement zero touch provisioning (ZTP) for Aruba IAPs and ArubaOS switches