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Provisioning Gateways
HPE Aruba Networking Central offers the following options to configure Gateways for SD-Branch deployments:
- Groups—You can create a logical subset of devices as groups. If you have devices that must share common configuration settings, ensure that you assign these devices to the same group. Any new device joining a group inherits the configuration that is already applied to the devices in a group. Similarly, you can also maintain separate groups for Branch Gateways and VPN Virtual Private Network. VPN enables secure access to a corporate network when located remotely. It enables a computer to send and receive data across shared or public networks as if it were directly connected to the private network, while benefiting from the functionality, security, and management policies of the private network. This is done by establishing a virtual point-to-point connection through the use of dedicated connections, encryption, or a combination of the two. Concentrators by assigning a group role for the devices.
- Device-specific configuration—If you have considerably lesser number of devices that do not have the same configuration requirements, you can apply configuration changes at the device level. In some cases, although the devices are assigned to a group, you may want to have a slightly different configuration to one specific device in a group. In such cases, you can modify the device configuration and apply changes at the device level. HPE Aruba Networking Central marks the discrepancies in the group and device configuration as overrides on the Configuration Audit page.
- Bulk Configuration—HPE Aruba Networking Central supports several bulk configuration options for Gateways:
- Bulk Configuration Upload—Allows you to download a list of HPE Aruba Networking Gateways from HPE Aruba Networking Central in the CSV Comma-Separated Values. A file format that stores tabular data in the plain text format separated by commas. file format. You can add the configuration parameters for host name, system IP address, VLAN Virtual Local Area Network. In computer networking, a single Layer 2 network may be partitioned to create multiple distinct broadcast domains, which are mutually isolated so that packets can only pass between them through one or more routers; such a domain is referred to as a Virtual Local Area Network, Virtual LAN, or VLAN., and Ports, and then upload the CSV file to HPE Aruba Networking Central.
- Gateway Pools—Allows you to create a common pool of IP addresses and enables automatic assignment of IP addresses to Gateways.
- DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. A network protocol that enables a server to automatically assign an IP address to an IP-enabled device from a defined range of numbers configured for a given network. Pools—Allows you to configure a DHCP pool, using which HPE Aruba Networking Central automatically assigns a subnet Subnet is the logical division of an IP network. to each Gateway for a given VLAN.
- APIs—Allows you to configure and monitor devices using NB APIs Application Programming Interface. Refers to a set of functions, procedures, protocols, and tools that enable users to build application software..
Different Modes of Configuring Gateways and Gateway Groups
HPE Aruba Networking Central supports the following methods for configuring Gateway groups and Gateways.
- —You can use the to quickly configure basic and essential parameters on HPE Aruba Networking Gateways for deploying the SD-Branch solution. The provides a wizard-based workflow for provisioning Gateways. The wizard allows you to configure Gateways at your own pace, pause, and resume when required. However, the Guided Setup will not be available after you complete the provisioning workflow for a Gateway group or a Gateway.
- —You can use the to configure your Gateways in a non-linear fashion. This mode allows you to make configuration changes after you provision your gateways for the first time using Guided setup.
- —The Advanced mode allows you to configure advanced features for SD-Branch deployments.
Before you proceed with the configuration tasks, browse through the recommendations and best practices described in the SD-Branch Fundamentals Guide and SD-Branch Security Hardening Guide.
- — You can provision Gateways using a configuration template.
