Hello
Aruba Switches uses SNMP unlike Aruba Controllers, they use AMON to communicate to Airwave.
Same as controller's you could add the switches to Airwave, under monitor page, you can click on the Stack membership option, it will show the info of the stack members. I am not sure about the frontplane or backplane stacking.
Templates, need to be fetched for the device's in a group, if they are on different versions, you can have one for version. you could use variables to manage different switches using one template.
Attaching the Airwave switch configuration guide, which will give you more details.
hope this helps..
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