Network Management

While browsing the downloads section of support.arubanetworks.com I noticed another ova file has apeared under the Airwave folder. Having  built a clarity engine and linked it into our airwave server, what does glass do ? A glance at the PDF seems to say it's a front end for multiple Airwave servers. If youve got 1 server, any point in Glass ? Given Airwaves limited SNMP support for non Aruba kit, does Glass manage other vendors?

Rgds

Alex

Glass is a “next-gen” master console designed from grounds up using cloud computing technologies with a lot of new capabilities compared to its predecessor! Glass 1.0 offers the following

1. High performance and scalable platform

a. Scales to 30,000 network devices and 300,000 client devices for Aruba WLAN (AMON only)

b. Scales to 50,000 network devices and 500,000 client devices for 3rd party WLAN (SNMP only)

2. Next gen aggregate dashboards

a. Snapshot and time trend views

b. Overview, RF health, AppRF, UCC, Clarity & Client Session dashboards

3. New framework for aggregate reporting

a. Summarized “executive” reports with the ability to customize with logos etc.

4. Built-in Single Sign On (SSO) for easy navigation between AMPs and Glass

5. Advanced Search

a. Search for Network Devices, Clients, Folders, Floors, Rogues

b. Partial search, prefix search depending on search parameters

c. Granular filters

6. Aggregate views for VisualRF and RAPIDs

7. RBAC for administrative access

8. Cloud based modular image upgrade process

Glass is next generation of master console, which manages mutliple primary servers which manages/montior mulit vendor products.

Regards,

Pavan

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Where can we get support for Glass? I'm trying to deploy and it doesn't seem to be communicating with the first AirWave server I tried to link it to? I get "Waiting to hear" for the "Last Heard" value. It doesn't appear I can do anything else within Glass at the moment. 

Hi ,

As per my knowledge support started from April 10th 2017, but I am not exactly sure, please check with your Aruba sales team for more details.

Have you installed Glass on physical machine or Virtual ? Currently Glass is supported only on VMware.

Regards,

Pavan

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Any benefit from running Glass with a single instance of AirWave?

There is no benfit if you have only one managed AMPs, since all the clarity, AppRF, reporting information will get from the same server. Airwave Glass is used in mulitple managed AMP scenario.

Regards,

Pavan

There is a requirement that AMP needs to be running on 8.2.3.1 for Glass to work. What version of AMP do you have running?

We need to be on AMP 8.2.3.1 and need to add with FQDN managed AMP not IP in Glass.

Regards,

Pavan

Hi Pavan, 

We're on 8.2.3.1, and did use a FQDN. Interestingly, Glass never seemed to get fully connected, but it did insert its hostname in Airwave under the CAS field, which then popped into the URL at logout. 

We have few challanges in using master console, to overcome those challanges Aruba introuced Glass 1.0

Regards,

Pavan

Hi Pavan,

How about configuration management and making configuration(Template/GUI) changes via Airwave. Is Aruba Glass able to do that? 

Right now it doesn't support configuration, and belive me it's also a feature we are asking dying to have.

Does anyone actually have Glass working, and with how many AMPs? We have more than 5 AMPs and Glass 1.0.1-1 will not communicate with all of them regularly. While I would love for Glass to manage the configuration of the connected AMPS, I would prefer Glass do a better job of being a monitoring console first.  

Hi

Open TAC ticket to look in to this issue.

Regards,

Pavan

Not to be like that but the latest releases has been really bad in terms of "working".

Clarity Synthetics and now Airwave Glass.

Can´t even make em work out of the box with a supersimple labb setup.

And before you say anything, a TAC case with synthetics has been opened for months where they do not get it to work. I really stopped bothering..

The software side of things are not Arubas stong side the last year with multiple bugs (severe) on released AP code, multiple months for support in Airwave on IAP code / hw platforms etc.

What is going on?