Streamlined Configuration and Deployment
The HPE Aruba Networking Management Software (AirWave) utilizes configuration groups, assigned templates, and step by step workflows to simplify device configuration. Entire config files can be imported, compared, assigned and archived.
Modifying and using smaller segments of configuration files across groups of devices is also supported. Get granular visibility across your entire access infrastructure and manage multiple generations of wired and wireless networks from just about any vendor.
These capabilities allow IT to quickly add, modify and deploy devices across distributed locations, while saving time and minimizing mistakes.
HPE Aruba Networking Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP) can be used to automatically push configuration files to devices to further simplify the deployment process.
AirWave lets IT organizations proactively optimize network performance, strengthen wireless security and improve the end-user experience. Integrated auditing is also provided for security and change management.
Real-time Visibility and Control
The HPE Aruba Networking Management Software (AirWave) provides detailed health and analytics dashboards to monitor critical applications and services.
Through a centralized and intuitive user interface, AirWave provides real-time monitoring, and configuration compliance, alert summaries and other selected statistics pertaining to network health.
Traffic analysis features helps you monitor application usage and policy enforcement across the entire network. Tracks web categories, client destinations and relative trust levels. Details are displayed by network, roles, device type and users.
See a consolidated view of how VoIP applications are performing displays MOS scores, and potential RF performance and capacity issues.
Dedicated dashboard views quickly help view potential RF coverage issues, unified communications and collaboration (UCC) traffic, application performance and network services health.
Comprehensive Management and Troubleshooting
The HPE Aruba Networking Management Software (AirWave) utilizes a role-based model for administrative access. Multiple combinations of access and management rights can be assigned as needed.
AirWave allows IT to protect the environment and provides the ability to tailor administrative access based on assigned scope and responsibilities; this gives IT organizations end-to-end visibility into problems before they escalate as metrics are monitored in real-time.
AirWave also discovers and maps devices across the entire environment, including those with distributed locations. The topology map shows upstream relationships between APs, controllers and switches in order to assess the impact on related devices and clients, and to isolate root cause of issues.
AirWave monitors the connectivity of clients, to proactively help identity and resolve issues.
Real-time views of actual floorplan maps make it easy to see RF coverage issues, location of all access points, and possible interference points. The result is a comprehensive view of how the network is performing, and potential trouble spots.
Flexible Platform Options
The HPE Aruba Networking Management Software (AirWave) is available on pre-configured hardware appliances or in virtual machine (VM) versions.
Available as software or a combined hardware and software appliance; AirWave gives IT the power to make intelligent, well-informed decisions about the network while reducing cost and complexity of improving service quality.
AirWave has a single management interface for multiple generations of devices and brands.
Multiple dashboard views provide visibility into every aspect of RF, clients, apps and network services.
Role-based access, viewing rights and administrative privileges tailored to job responsibilities.
