Wireless Access

Hello guys,

I started reading the REST API guide for the ArubaOS,

I couldn't find the equivalent endpoints for standard commands like show user-table/show wms ap/show ap.

Am I missing something, or the REST API is not complete?

Thank you,

Emanuel

Hello guys,

I started reading the REST API guide for the ArubaOS,

I couldn't find the equivalent endpoints for standard commands like show user-table/show wms ap/show ap.

Am I missing something, or the REST API is not complete?

Thank you,

Emanuel

Hi Herman,

Thanks for the reply,

Yes, I saw this endpoint; I tried it, and it works well.

But I'm not sure how it works internally when I run the command: show+wms+client+list
Does it run on all the controllers/MDs? Does it bring back all the clients from all the APs?

Generally, when I send a command request, how does it work? Where it runs it? What is the scope?

(I used to run commands on the MM and change context using change-config-node to run it on each MD).

Thanks,

Emanuel

Hello guys,

I started reading the REST API guide for the ArubaOS,

I couldn't find the equivalent endpoints for standard commands like show user-table/show wms ap/show ap.

Am I missing something, or the REST API is not complete?

Thank you,

Emanuel

Hi Herman,

Thanks for the reply,

Yes, I saw this endpoint; I tried it, and it works well.

But I'm not sure how it works internally when I run the command: show+wms+client+list
Does it run on all the controllers/MDs? Does it bring back all the clients from all the APs?

Generally, when I send a command request, how does it work? Where it runs it? What is the scope?

(I used to run commands on the MM and change context using change-config-node to run it on each MD).

Thanks,

Emanuel

Hello guys,

I started reading the REST API guide for the ArubaOS,

I couldn't find the equivalent endpoints for standard commands like show user-table/show wms ap/show ap.

Am I missing something, or the REST API is not complete?

Thank you,

Emanuel

I'm confused.

I just executed a showcommand request (show ap database long) on both the MM and the MC - through the showcommand endpoint.

The MM could see/return all the APs the MC owns; how does it work?

My question assumes that if you want data from the MC (which is responsible for the APs/Clients/w/e), you need to query the MC.

But here I made a shortcut through the MM; what happened behind? Does the MM query the MC on my behalf? Does the MM hold all the information of all the MCs/MDs?

Eventually, TL/DR - I want to execute periodically set of queries (e.g., get all APs/get all Clients/get all rouge APs/Clients, etc., etc.),

Would the API be able to help me (instead of SSH)? Does it reduce the overload on the Aruba infrastructure? Do I need to query all the MDs individually?

I hope that all my questions make sense.

Thank you,

Emanuel

Hi Herman,

Thanks for the reply,

Yes, I saw this endpoint; I tried it, and it works well.

But I'm not sure how it works internally when I run the command: show+wms+client+list
Does it run on all the controllers/MDs? Does it bring back all the clients from all the APs?

Generally, when I send a command request, how does it work? Where it runs it? What is the scope?

(I used to run commands on the MM and change context using change-config-node to run it on each MD).

Thanks,

Emanuel

Hello guys,

I started reading the REST API guide for the ArubaOS,

I couldn't find the equivalent endpoints for standard commands like show user-table/show wms ap/show ap.

Am I missing something, or the REST API is not complete?

Thank you,

Emanuel

I'm confused.

I just executed a showcommand request (show ap database long) on both the MM and the MC - through the showcommand endpoint.

The MM could see/return all the APs the MC owns; how does it work?

My question assumes that if you want data from the MC (which is responsible for the APs/Clients/w/e), you need to query the MC.

But here I made a shortcut through the MM; what happened behind? Does the MM query the MC on my behalf? Does the MM hold all the information of all the MCs/MDs?

Eventually, TL/DR - I want to execute periodically set of queries (e.g., get all APs/get all Clients/get all rouge APs/Clients, etc., etc.),

Would the API be able to help me (instead of SSH)? Does it reduce the overload on the Aruba infrastructure? Do I need to query all the MDs individually?

I hope that all my questions make sense.

Thank you,

Emanuel

Hi Herman,

Thanks for the reply,

Yes, I saw this endpoint; I tried it, and it works well.

But I'm not sure how it works internally when I run the command: show+wms+client+list
Does it run on all the controllers/MDs? Does it bring back all the clients from all the APs?

Generally, when I send a command request, how does it work? Where it runs it? What is the scope?

(I used to run commands on the MM and change context using change-config-node to run it on each MD).

Thanks,

Emanuel

Hello guys,

I started reading the REST API guide for the ArubaOS,

I couldn't find the equivalent endpoints for standard commands like show user-table/show wms ap/show ap.

Am I missing something, or the REST API is not complete?

Thank you,

Emanuel

I want to thank you for the detailed and great answers.

I think I have the last question about this topic. I have read about AMON communication, but not quite sure about one thing:

When I query the MCR (showcommand API), does he queries the MDs immediately per the client's API request? Or does he have this information stored? Does the MD supply his information (APs/Clients) by pushing to the MCR?

If he indeed queries for each API request, how it's better than the SSH (we will overload the MCR with API requests the same as SSH commands)? 

I'm confused.

I just executed a showcommand request (show ap database long) on both the MM and the MC - through the showcommand endpoint.

The MM could see/return all the APs the MC owns; how does it work?

My question assumes that if you want data from the MC (which is responsible for the APs/Clients/w/e), you need to query the MC.

But here I made a shortcut through the MM; what happened behind? Does the MM query the MC on my behalf? Does the MM hold all the information of all the MCs/MDs?

Eventually, TL/DR - I want to execute periodically set of queries (e.g., get all APs/get all Clients/get all rouge APs/Clients, etc., etc.),

Would the API be able to help me (instead of SSH)? Does it reduce the overload on the Aruba infrastructure? Do I need to query all the MDs individually?

I hope that all my questions make sense.

Thank you,

Emanuel

Hi Herman,

Thanks for the reply,

Yes, I saw this endpoint; I tried it, and it works well.

But I'm not sure how it works internally when I run the command: show+wms+client+list
Does it run on all the controllers/MDs? Does it bring back all the clients from all the APs?

Generally, when I send a command request, how does it work? Where it runs it? What is the scope?

(I used to run commands on the MM and change context using change-config-node to run it on each MD).

Thanks,

Emanuel

Hello guys,

I started reading the REST API guide for the ArubaOS,

I couldn't find the equivalent endpoints for standard commands like show user-table/show wms ap/show ap.

Am I missing something, or the REST API is not complete?

Thank you,

Emanuel

Hi Herman,

Thanks for the reply,

Yes, I saw this endpoint; I tried it, and it works well.

But I'm not sure how it works internally when I run the command: show+wms+client+list
Does it run on all the controllers/MDs? Does it bring back all the clients from all the APs?

Generally, when I send a command request, how does it work? Where it runs it? What is the scope?

(I used to run commands on the MM and change context using change-config-node to run it on each MD).

Thanks,

Emanuel

Hello guys,

I started reading the REST API guide for the ArubaOS,

I couldn't find the equivalent endpoints for standard commands like show user-table/show wms ap/show ap.

Am I missing something, or the REST API is not complete?

Thank you,

Emanuel