About HPE Aruba Networking Central On-Premises

HPE Aruba Networking Central On-Premises is a variant of HPE Aruba Networking Central, a SaaS platform that offers you a single intelligent console to monitor, analyze, and configure WLAN Wireless Local Area Network. WLAN is a 802.11 standards-based LAN that the users access through a wireless connection. and wired networks. HPE Aruba Networking Central On-Premises makes it easy and efficient to manage your networks by combining industry-leading functionality with an intuitive user interface, and enables network administrators and help desk staff to support and control the network for your premises. The features are designed to manage, maintain, and analyze your network.

HPE Aruba Networking Central On-Premises is for organizations that do not want the data on cloud because of their business operations and policies regarding confidentiality, security, downtime, loss of data, and so on. This software solution also gives the same agility and efficiency of cloud services as HPE Aruba Networking Central, and at the same time, it adheres to stringent regulatory and compliance requirements.

HPE Aruba Networking Central On-Premises is now integrated as one of the apps within the on-premises version of HPE GreenLake that resides on the user’s premises. The on-premises version of the platform provides common services such as user management, device inventory, subscription A business model where a customer pays a certain amount as subscription price to obtain access to a product or service. management, etc. Customers fully own and control the appliance, and access to the appliance. No data is sent off-premises. For subscription management HPE Aruba Networking Central On-Premises 2.5.5.0 will continue to communicate with HPE’s global licensing (GLIS) server.

Key Features

HPE Aruba Networking Central On-Premises offers the following key features and benefits:

• Zero Touch Provisioning—Automatic provisioning to simplify device onboarding The process of preparing a device for use on an enterprise network, by creating the appropriate access credentials and setting up the network connection parameters. and deployment.

• GreenLake Account Home—provides services such as user management, device inventory, and subscription management.

• Network-wide health monitoring—Comprehensive view of the network, device status, health, and application usage at Global, Site, Label, and client levels.
• Application visibility—Detailed information about the data usage of the clients connected to devices in the network and analysis of the client traffic flow.
• Reporting wizard—Generate scheduled or on-demand reports for the Clients, Infrastructure, Security Compliance, and Applications categories. You can also download reports in PDF and CSV Comma-Separated Values. A file format that stores tabular data in the plain text format separated by commas. formats.
• Network security—Strict policy and compliance control for the overall security of the network.
• API Application Programming Interface. Refers to a set of functions, procedures, protocols, and tools that enable users to build application software. integration—APIs and webhooks support for extensibility with third-party software.
• AI Insights—Identify and resolve Wi-Fi Wi-Fi is a technology that allows electronic devices to connect to a WLAN network, mainly using the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz radio bands. Wi-Fi can apply to products that use any 802.11 standard. connectivity issues, along with logical and actionable insights about the root cause.
• Built-in alerts and troubleshooting tools—Live events and packet capture logs for troubleshooting or performing diagnostics tests on devices and networks.
• Threat detection and prevention—Block malicious links or payloads and quickly respond to rogue APs or suspicious traffic.
• Cluster configuration—HPE Aruba Networking Central On-Premises supports up to a 11-node cluster. Cluster configuration is a highly recommended architecture for its high performance, easy management, scope, and flexibility. HPE Aruba Networking Central On-Premises can be installed as a single node also.

Scaling Devices for HPE Aruba Networking Central On-Premises

HPE Aruba Networking Central On-Premises supports Instant APs, Campus APs/Remote APs, switches, and controllers. HPE Aruba Networking Central On-Premises can be implemented on multiple nodes, and the number of supported devices increase accordingly.

For the list of features not supported, see Limitations.

Supported Number of Devices - Summary Table

The following table provides a summary of the number of devices supported across multiple nodes.

Table 1: Maximum Number of Supported Devices based on the Deployment Types

Node Size	Campus APs and Controllers only	Instant AP only	Switches only (AOS-S and AOS-CX)	Mixed-Mode
Single Node	2000	2000	1000	1600 APs (Instant AP or Campus AP Campus APs are used in private networks where APs connect over private links (LAN, WLAN, WAN or MPLS) and terminate directly on controllers. Campus APs are deployed as part of the indoor campus solution in enterprise office buildings, warehouses, hospitals, universities, and so on. ) and 400 Switches (AOS-S or AOS-CX)
Three Node	8000	8000	3000	6000 APs (Instant AP or Campus AP) and 2000 Switches (AOS-S or AOS-CX)
Five Node	16000	12000	4000	12000 APs (Instant AP or Campus AP) and 4000 Switches (AOS-S or AOS-CX)
Seven Node	25000	25000	10000 (AOS-S) / 6000 (AOS-CX)	15000 APs (Instant AP or Campus AP) and 10000 AOS-S switches 19000 APs (Instant AP or Campus AP) and 6000 AOS-CX switches
Eleven Node	40000	34000	10000 (AOS-S) / 6000 (AOS-CX)	30000 APs (Instant AP or Campus AP) and 10000 AOS-S switches 34000 APs (Instant AP or Campus AP) and 6000 AOS-CX switches

Supported Number of Devices - Detailed Table

The following table details the number of devices that HPE Aruba Networking Central On-Premises supports across multiple nodes.

Table 2: Maximum Number of Supported Devices

Nodes	Maximum Number of Supported Devices	Modes
Single Node	2000	2000 APs where APs can be either Instant APs, Campus APs, or controllers that manage APs; or a mixed deployment of any of these devices. 1000 switches where switches can be AOS-S or AOS-CX switches or a mix of the two. In a mixed-mode of switches and APs, up to 1600 APs and 400 switches are supported.
Three Node	8000	8000 APs, where APs can be either Instant APs, Campus APs, or APs along with the controllers that manage APs; or a mix of any of these devices. 3000 AOS-S or AOS-CX switches or a mix of the two can be deployed in switch-only deployment. In a mixed-mode of switches and APs, up to 6000 APs (Instant APs or Campus APs) and 2000 switches (AOS-S or AOS-CX) are supported.
Five Node	16000	16000 Campus APs along with the controllers that manage APs can be deployed. 12000 Instant APs can be deployed. 4000 AOS-S or AOS-CX switches or a mix of the two can be deployed in switch-only deployment. In a mixed-mode of switches and APs, up to 12000 (Instant APs or Campus APs) and 4000 (AOS-S or AOS-CX) switches are supported.
Seven Node	25000	25000 Campus APs along with the controllers that manage APs can be deployed. 25000 Instant APs can be deployed in Instant AP-only deployment. 10000 AOS-S switches can be deployed in AOS-S switch-only deployment. 6000 AOS-CX switches can be deployed in AOS-CX switch-only deployment. In a mixed-mode of AOS-CX switches and APs, up to 19000 APs (Instant AP or Campus APs) and 6000 AOS-CX switches are supported. In a mixed-mode of AOS-Sswitches and APs, up to 15000 APs (Instant AP or Campus APs) and 10000 AOS-Sswitches are supported.
Eleven Node	40000	40000 Campus APs along with the controllers that manage APs can be deployed. 34000 Instant APs can be deployed in an Instant AP-only deployment. 10000 AOS-S switches can be deployed in an AOS-S switch-only deployment. 6000 AOS-CX switches can be deployed in an AOS-CX switch-only deployment. In a mixed-mode of AOS-CX switches and APs, up to 34000 APs (Instant AP or Campus APs) and 6000 AOS-CX switches are supported. In a mixed-mode of AOS-S switches and APs, up to 30000 APs (Instant AP or Campus APs) and 10000 AOS-S switches are supported.

Supported Web Browsers

Table 3: Browser Compatibility Matrix

Browser Versions	Operating System
Google Chrome 108.0.5359.71 or later	Windows 10 or later and macOS
Mozilla Firefox 107.0.1 or later	Windows 10 or later and macOS
Safari 15.4 (17613.1.17.1.13) or later	macOS
Microsoft Edge (Microsoft Edge 92.0.902.62 and Microsoft EdgeHTML 18.19041) or later	Windows 10 or later and macOS

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• Who you are—refers to the effective permissions you have, which depend on the roles to which you are assigned to.

• What you have—refers to the services your organization has purchased or services that you have been offered to use.