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VIEW Certified Configuration Guide
Aruba
Mobility Controllers
A200, A800, A2400, A6000
June 2008 Edition
1725-36080-001
Revision J

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  • Page 1 VIEW Certified Configuration Guide Aruba Mobility Controllers A200, A800, A2400, A6000 June 2008 Edition 1725-36080-001 Revision J...

  • Page 2: Copyright Notice

    Polycom, Inc. has prepared this document for use by Polycom personnel and customers. The drawings and specifications contained herein are the property of Polycom and shall be neither reproduced in whole or in part without the prior written approval of Polycom, nor be implied to grant any license to make, use, or sell equipment manufactured in accordance herewith.
  • Page 3 Certification Program is designed to ensure interoperability and high performance between SpectraLink Wireless Telephones and WLAN infrastructure products. The products listed below have been thoroughly tested in Polycom’s lab and have passed VIEW Certification. This document details how to configure the Aruba mobility controller with SpectraLink Wireless Telephones.

  • Page 4: Network Topology

    Network Topology It is important to note that this configuration is not necessarily applicable to all customer environments. The following topology was tested during VIEW Certification testing. Known Limitations No limitations were discovered during VIEW Certification testing. VIEW Certification testing verifies that the wireless telephone and the AP interoperate at the packet level;...
  • Page 5 The APs can connect to the controller over a L2 or L3 network. Ensure that DHCP is enabled on the subnets the APs are connected to and the APs can ping the Aruba mobility controller’s “switch IP address” from their current subnet. PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc Aruba Mobility Controllers: A200, A800, A2400, A6000...
  • Page 6 Connecting to the Mobility Controller Command, comment, and screen text key In the sections below you will find commands, comments, prompts, system responses, or other screen-displayed information involved in the configuration process. This key explains the text styles and symbols used to denote them. Text Style xxxxxxxx <xxxxxxxx>...
  • Page 7 The user is prompted with the username and password configured (in the example above, the admin screen is displayed: PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc Aruba Mobility Controllers: A200, A800, A2400, A6000 at the > prompt to enter the enable mode. enable username password admin ).

  • Page 8: Initial Setup

    Initial Setup Before starting, please ensure that the Policy Enforcement Firewall module license is enabled on the Aruba mobility controller. Please contact Aruba Networks for licenses and installation information. On power-up, the user is presented with the startup wizard: Enter System name [Aruba800]: Aruba Enter VLAN 1 interface IP address [172.16.0.254]: Enter VLAN 1 interface subnet mask [255.255.255.0]: Enter IP Default gateway [none]:...
  • Page 9 Aruba Mobility Controllers: A200, A800, A2400, A6000 ..<<<<< Welcome to Aruba Wireless Networks - Aruba 800 >>>>> ..(Aruba) User: PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc...
  • Page 10 Assigning an IP to the Mobility Controller 1. Connect to the switch via the CLI. 2. Login with the configured username and password, in this example. 3. Type 4. Type the enable password, 5. Type 6. Create the VLAN for the voice (vlan 25) using the VLAN command: (Aruba) (config) #vlan 25 7.

  • Page 11: Connecting Aps

    AP Provisioning User Guide for instructions on provisioning the The APs can communicate with the controller over a L2 or L3 network. The only requirement is that each AP be assigned an IP address and default gateway using DHCP. PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc Aruba Mobility Controllers: A200, A800, A2400, A6000...

  • Page 12: Ssid Configuration

    SSID Configuration CLI command configuration APs can be configured using the CLI or the Web interface. Each AP is identified by a unique location code. The APs can either be configured per location with unique settings using the AP’s unique location code or globally using the wildcard location.
  • Page 13 12. Enter the 13. Click the Navigating to other pages without saving/applying the changes will result in the loss of the changes. PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc Aruba Mobility Controllers: A200, A800, A2400, A6000 button. Configuration Network button. , enter...

  • Page 14: Access Point Configuration

    Access Point Configuration Radio setting 802.11b or 802.11g When using the 802.11b/g band for the VoWiFi network, set the radio settings to 802.11b/g mixed mode. Preamble settings The tests on the Aruba system were run with the short preamble setting. The short preamble setting can be used, as this supports both short and long preambles.
  • Page 15 RF site 802.11g) survey. Verify you have sufficient coverage to support data rates. PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc Aruba Mobility Controllers: A200, A800, A2400, A6000 white paper and the Default Description Settings Max clients that can associate with the AP.
  • Page 16 CLI Commands Required Settings 802.11b/g Tx rates (if These rates should be all wireless client are determined from RF site 802.11g) survey. Verify you have sufficient coverage to support data rates. 802.11a rates These rates should be determined from RF site survey.
  • Page 17 Clear the c. Set the d. For 9. Click the PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc Aruba Mobility Controllers: A200, A800, A2400, A6000 command. ap location (To make the changes for the “g” radio.) (To make the changes for the “a” radio.) button.
  • Page 18 Configuration Guide PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc...
  • Page 19 14. To assign the power and channel setting manually: a. For b. Clear the c. Set the d. For 15. Click the PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc Aruba Mobility Controllers: A200, A800, A2400, A6000 tab. 802.11 a , enter for voice. Max Retries , enter...
  • Page 20 Dynamic RF Management — ARM Aware Scanning If Adaptive Radio Resource Management (ARM) Aware Scanning (RF scanning) is included in your firmware release, it can be enabled through the command line interface as follows: configure terminal ap location x.y.z phy-type g arm scanning enable arm assignment single-band arm voip-aware-scan enable...
  • Page 21 4. To add a new destination, click the 5. Create a new net-destination at and add the SVP servers as hosts. For more details on configuring the net-destinations, refer to the user guide. PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc Aruba Mobility Controllers: A200, A800, A2400, A6000 tab. Configuration Advanced tab. Destinations...
  • Page 22 Configuration Guide Create policies for the wireless telephone user The policies shown in the above example can be configured using the Web interface as follows: PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc...
  • Page 23 Aruba Mobility Controllers: A200, A800, A2400, A6000 Assign policies to the role Create a role, for example , and assign the policies to this role. phones This is the role that would be assigned to the handsets when they are authenticated successfully.
  • Page 24 alias svp_server user svc-svp permit queue high user user user host 224.0.1.116 any permit user-role phones session-acl phone_acl alias tftp-server svc-tftp permit alias dhcp-server svc-dhcp permit Configuration Guide PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc...
  • Page 25 MAC-authentication refer to Aruba’s user guide. For the OUI based derivation rule, configure the following from the CLI: aaa derivation rules user set role condition macaddr starts-with "00:90:7a" set- value phone PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc Aruba Mobility Controllers: A200, A800, A2400, A6000...

  • Page 26: Quality Of Service (Qos)

    Quality of Service (QoS) Quality of service is achieved by prioritizing the SpectraLink voice traffic over data traffic. To prioritize the voice traffic over data traffic in the AP traffic queues, the “queue high” tag is used at the end of each ACL to prioritize the traffic matching the ACL over all other traffic.

  • Page 27: Subnet Roaming

    6. Create a default route for multicast traffic re-direction on the switch that acts as the Mobility Home Agent for the (this was done on the master switch in the test example). PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc Aruba Mobility Controllers: A200, A800, A2400, A6000 tab. and click the 1.1.0...
  • Page 28 CLI Commands to Set Up Subnet Roaming Commands for the master switch (the Aruba 800) Configure terminal ip default-gateway <ip_addr of router> ap location 1.1.0 lms-ip <ip_addr of 800 switch> ap location 1.2.0 lms-ip <ip_addr of 6000 switch> ip route 224.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 <ip_addr of SpectraLink gateway>...
  • Page 29 (shows the AP & aaa rules are PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc Aruba Mobility Controllers: A200, A800, A2400, A6000 (should be 800’s ip) (shows the APs connected to the Aruba 800 switch) (should be 800’s ip)

  • Page 30: Checking The Configuration

    Checking the Configuration Verify connectivity by pinging between the switches, the APs, and the server and gateway. The switch and AP are now ready for use with the SpectraLink Wireless Telephones. To show AP settings: show ap config location x.y.z To show all APs connected to a switch: show stm connectivity To show clients associated to all APs:...

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