Security

I got a question regarding this

Let say i got 25  Guest license.

If i get a visit during the day of 60 users during that day

During the morning there was 20 guest with expiricy of the time 2 hours

During the afternoon 20 guest more with expiricy of time 2 hours

During the night 20 more guest more with expiricy of time 2 hours

So never you will have more than 25 at once

Is this is a possible scenario?

Or does this count total of guest during the day in this case it willl be 60 and im going over the limit.

Can someone clarify me this?

Cheers

Carlos

Licensing is calculated on a 7 day rolling average. Sounds like you will never hit your max count.

Yes...we enact the 7 day moving average to take care of inevitable peaks and valleys in usage of the system.  In the event that you exceed the 25 limit for a trailing 7 days, the system will do the following:

Does this mean that i cannot have more than 25 diffenrent visitors per week??

Yes...sort of.  Guest capacity is tracked by the number of authenticated devices, not by the number of registered guests. The same 7-day rolling average will be used to measure license usage.   

If you consistently exceed the 25 limit, than the above will occur.

Have not considered putting at least 1 day instead of 7? i mean just think an hotel!...

If they got 200 rooms

2 devices per user minimum

400

Thats in maybe 2 days

Let say 6 days

then i would need 1k at least license... which would be really expensive....

Is there no way to chang e that 7 day rolling average?

Cheers

Carlos

No...there is no way to change that moving average.  

The rolling licensing is designed to account for temporary spikes in usage such as a University hosting a large conference once per year. If the business normally has a certain number of devices, it should be licensed appropriately.

Well that would be really expensive for an hotel.... you would need at least 1k license... i mean not for even a big hotel... maybe for a 200 or 300 room hotel.

Please reach out to your Aruba account manager for pricing.  The product will definitely support what you are looking to do.  The 25 starter licenses are essentially for our customers to run pilots, etc.  At scale, we use licensing options based on the application.  This isn't unique to Aruba.

Another question

Let say that i got a user which comes monday, then wednesday and then thurdsay wiht the same device... that would count just as 1 not as 3 devices

Cheers

Carlos

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@NightShade1 wrote:

Another question

Let say that i got a user which comes monday, then wednesday and then thurdsay wiht the same device... that would count just as 1 not as 3 devices

 

Cheers

Carlos

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Correct...that is my understanding

Guest uses a daily reset model. If you have 1 appliance and use the starter bundle (25 licenses) all for guest, you can authenticate 25 unique MAC addresses per day that are connected by guests (we support bursting so that if you have not purchased the right level of licenses, users are not denied access). The next day you may see some of the same MAC addresses and new ones. If you stay under or at 25 authentications you have enough licensing (again bursting is supported). 

The problem starts when you consistently see 30/40/90 authentications per day over 3 months. Then it's time to buy the next level license bundle.

Trent

ClearPass Product Management

So this is per day NOT per week ?

Cheers

Carlos

Guest is special, the MAC addresses refresh per day. You end up with a weekly view so that you can see a daily average though.  We understand that in guest environments users come and go on a much quicker basis than in the enterprise itself.

The policy manager tracks the unique MAC addresses that it sees on a daily basis, but the refresh is weekly. 

Trent