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Reading Time: 8 minutesYou can easily configure ClearPass SSO to use Google Workspace for all kinds of Single Sign On based logins. This post will show how to use Google Workspace to authenticate your ClearPass Operators and Guest admins. I have quite a similar post with Azure AD here: ClearPass SSO with Azure AD If you read the … Read more
Reading Time: 16 minutesThis post is all about Aruba Downloadable User Roles and how to use them for wired and wireless access with dot1x and mac authentication. If you use Downloadable User Roles, you get a central point of configuration for all access-related configurations. ClearPass, which is used as the radius server, will have all the roles available. … Read more
Reading Time: 19 minutesMost organizations are moving to a network where all ports are authenticated. This could lead to problems when we try to connect an AP to a network port as AP authentication is more than just an accept. There are two types of AP that might be considered. First, the Campus AP, which needs to connect … Read more
Reading Time: 10 minutesI was writing some new posts and realized that I missed one basic post for you. If you ever went through the process of provisioning many new AP’s to a controller, you may be looked for a simpler way to do the provisioning work. The solution is the whitelist. Every ArubaOS controller has an internal whitelist … Read more
Reading Time: 5 minutesLong ago, I configured my iMC server to use AD based operator login. you can read the post here. After having ClearPass up and running I will do the iMC operator login with radius. This post describes how this works. iMC Operator Login: Prepare ClearPass The first step is to prepare ClearPass. Those are the normal steps … Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesRecently, I had a customer who had all of his user accounts in an external SQL database and we were looking for a way to authenticate against this external SQL authentication source with ClearPass. It is easy, to get this working and the following post demonstrates the configuration. ClearPass supports MSSQL, Oracle and PostgreSQL out … Read more
Reading Time: 5 minutesEver wondered why you can’t use MAC authentication and get the correct username for monitoring purposes, for example? Actually, with ClearPass you can use MAC authentication with a username. You can return the correct username, not the MAC address so that monitoring applications can use this username instead of the MAC address. Configure the Controller … Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn this post I will show, how to sync user accounts from Active Directory and use them for iMC Tacacs+ to authenticate on switches or other network related devices. The iMC Tacacs+ server is available as a separate module for iMC. For this post I use the latest available versions for iMC and iMC Tacacs+ which … Read more