Solution Summary; Prerequisites; Test Environment; Aruba Controller Configuration - AMIGOPOD PowerConnect W Clearpass 100 Software Manual

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Solution Summary

Prerequisites

Support for the automatic creation of MAC authentication accounts requires the following plugin
versions:
•
Amigopod Guest Manager 3.5.x or later
•
Amigopod RADIUS 3.0.x or later
•
Amigopod MAC Authentication 3.5.x or later
•
ArubaOS 6.0.x or later
To verify you have the correct plugin versions installed and enabled, navigate to Administrator >
Plugin Manager > List Available Plugins and check the version number in the list.
Use the Check for Plugin Updates link to download and install updated plugins.

Test Environment


Amigopod Virtual Appliance running on VMWare Fusion (3.1.13 Kernel, 3.1.10)

Aruba 651 Controller with inbuilt WiFi Access Point (6.1.0.0-beta with PEF License)

iPhone, iPad, Mac Book Pro MAC OS X, Dell Windows XP

Aruba Controller Configuration

The configuration discussed in this Tech Note assumes that the Aruba Controller has been
configured with an SSID that has RADIUS MAC Address Authentication enabled with Failover to
Captive Portal.
This Tech Note focuses on the customization aspects of the Amigopod solution and not the
detailed configuration of the Aruba controllers. This is assumed knowledge and if more
information is required on the correct configuration of the ArubaOS environment, please refer to
the ArubaOS documentation or various VRD documents available from arubanetworks.com
The following configuration extracts provides an example of this setup:

RADIUS Server Definition

aaa authentication-server radius "amigopod"
host "172.16.0.20"
key f0e40f33109cd5f863a77327072720aaa4785eff2ca57800
nas-identifier "Aruba651"
nas-ip 172.16.0.254
!
aaa server-group "amigopod-srv"
auth-server amigopod
!
aaa rfc-3576-server "172.16.0.20"
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