Introduction
HPE Aruba Networking Central is the cloud management platform for the security-first, AI-powered network and security solutions developed for HPE customers of various sizes in a range of industries.
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HPE Aruba Networking Central
Built on a microservices architecture powered by HPE GreenLake, HPE Aruba Networking Central delivers a unified management solution for network devices across campus, branch, remote, and data center locations. It simplifies operations with advanced data visualizations and AI-assisted analytics. A flexible implementation of an API-first design and YANG data models for network device management delivers broad interoperability for management of third party devices or collection of event logs. Sophisticated and granular policy creation required for a zero-trust network implementation can be created through a single administrative user interface (UI) and pushed to multiple device types for enforcement throughout the infrastructure.
Architecture
HPE Aruba Networking Central is designed on a microservices architecture, ensuring a platform that can be upgraded with new features and capabilities rapidly and non-disruptively as they become available.
API-first development ensures that each new addition to the UI also is available programmatically.
With a strategic approach to using diverse cloud resources, HPE Aruba Networking Central is available on regional cloud clusters around the globe and can be deployed to multiple cloud vendors. The cloud platform centers around an industry leading, large, and diverse data lake with millions of managed devices and billions of endpoints contributing to data models, yielding capabilities such as Client Insights and AIOps recommendations. Cloud-scale, machine-learning-based analytics deliver clear, usable insights into management and troubleshooting of the HPE Aruba Networking and third-party infrastructures.
When customers require an on-premise approach to managing their infrastructure, HPE Aruba Networking Central On-Premises is available to provide most of the capabilities of the cloud version in a locally hosted installation.
Licensing
HPE Aruba Networking Central is offered with two license tiers: Foundational and Advanced. The Foundational license provides access to a vast majority of features and delivers all the functions needed to manage modern enterprise security and network infrastructure.
Advanced licenses support these premium features:
- Advanced AI Insights related to RF management
- Automated AI Assistance for technical assistant center (TAC) notifications and log collection
- Unified communications and collaboration (UCC)
- Multi-zone
- Streaming API instead of polling,
- Microbranch WAN health and Cloud Connect for third-party inspection
- NetConductor workflows
Refer to the HPE Aruba Networking Central SaaS Subscriptions guide for complete details.