Chapter 2
About Aruba Central On-Premises
About Aruba Central On-Premises
Aruba Central On-Premises is a variant of Aruba Central, a SaaS platform that offers you a single
intelligent console to monitor, analyze, and configure WLAN and wired networks. Aruba 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.
Aruba 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 Aruba Central, and
at the same time, it adheres to stringent regulatory and compliance requirements.
Aruba 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 management, etc.
Customers fully own and control the appliance, and access to the appliance. No data is sent off-
premises. For subscription management Aruba Central On-Premises 2.5.5.0 will continue to
communicate with HPE’s global licensing (GLIS) server.
Aruba Central On-Premises is a Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) compliant software. The
FIPS validation is mandatory for federal government departments that collect, store, transfer, share, and
disseminate sensitive data. Only single node installation is supported for the FIPS setup.
Key Features
Aruba Central On-Premises offers the following key features and benefits:
nZero Touch Provisioning—Automatic provisioning to simplify device onboarding and deployment.
nGreenLake Account Home—provides services such as user management, device inventory, and
subscription management.
nNetwork-wide health monitoring—Comprehensive view of the network, device status, health, and
application usage at Global, Site, Label, and client levels.
nApplication visibility—Detailed information about the data usage of the clients connected to
devices in the network and analysis of the client traffic flow.
nReporting 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
formats.
nNetwork security—Strict policy and compliance control for the overall security of the network.
nAPI integration—APIs and webhooks support for extensibility with third-party software.
nAI Insights—Identify and resolve Wi-Fi connectivity issues, along with logical and actionable insights
about the root cause.
nBuilt-in alerts and troubleshooting tools—Live events and packet capture logs for troubleshooting
or performing diagnostics tests on devices and networks.
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