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The topic came in a discussion with a customer. In Aruba Central we can configure any WLAN to use "Cloud Auth" as the authentication server, but in Global -> Security we have to choose one for the network profile. Is the use of Cloud Auth limited to one WLAN per tenant?

Should work, as when selecting Cloud Authentication as the authentication server the SSID is configured for Passpoint.

The SSID setting under Global -> Security is for clients that don't support Passpoint.

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Original Message:
Sent: Oct 16, 2024 04:35 AM
From: JaimeVS
Subject: Can Cloud Auth be used in more than one WLAN?

The topic came in a discussion with a customer. In Aruba Central we can configure any WLAN to use "Cloud Auth" as the authentication server, but in Global -> Security we have to choose one for the network profile. Is the use of Cloud Auth limited to one WLAN per tenant?

Should work, as when selecting Cloud Authentication as the authentication server the SSID is configured for Passpoint.

The SSID setting under Global -> Security is for clients that don't support Passpoint.

The topic came in a discussion with a customer. In Aruba Central we can configure any WLAN to use "Cloud Auth" as the authentication server, but in Global -> Security we have to choose one for the network profile. Is the use of Cloud Auth limited to one WLAN per tenant?

Thanks for the response. We have only been playing with CloudAuth for a couple of months, as a POC, and until now we just relied on having the user go to the URL that Central shows and downloading the connection profile with or without the Onboarding app. So, if a client with Passpoint enabled connects directly to the network, how does it download the user certificate? Or should it have been obtained previously?

Should work, as when selecting Cloud Authentication as the authentication server the SSID is configured for Passpoint.

The SSID setting under Global -> Security is for clients that don't support Passpoint.

The topic came in a discussion with a customer. In Aruba Central we can configure any WLAN to use "Cloud Auth" as the authentication server, but in Global -> Security we have to choose one for the network profile. Is the use of Cloud Auth limited to one WLAN per tenant?

the user cert will be installed during the onboarding process of using the onboard app or through the url before hand.

Thanks for the response. We have only been playing with CloudAuth for a couple of months, as a POC, and until now we just relied on having the user go to the URL that Central shows and downloading the connection profile with or without the Onboarding app. So, if a client with Passpoint enabled connects directly to the network, how does it download the user certificate? Or should it have been obtained previously?

Should work, as when selecting Cloud Authentication as the authentication server the SSID is configured for Passpoint.

The SSID setting under Global -> Security is for clients that don't support Passpoint.

The topic came in a discussion with a customer. In Aruba Central we can configure any WLAN to use "Cloud Auth" as the authentication server, but in Global -> Security we have to choose one for the network profile. Is the use of Cloud Auth limited to one WLAN per tenant?

So, if I understood you both correctly, if a customer has two 802.1X WLANs, both using Cloud Auth, and one of them is assigned to the client profile, the user can onboard with that profile and later use that same certificate to connect to the other WLAN, am I correct?

the user cert will be installed during the onboarding process of using the onboard app or through the url before hand.

Thanks for the response. We have only been playing with CloudAuth for a couple of months, as a POC, and until now we just relied on having the user go to the URL that Central shows and downloading the connection profile with or without the Onboarding app. So, if a client with Passpoint enabled connects directly to the network, how does it download the user certificate? Or should it have been obtained previously?

Should work, as when selecting Cloud Authentication as the authentication server the SSID is configured for Passpoint.

The SSID setting under Global -> Security is for clients that don't support Passpoint.

The topic came in a discussion with a customer. In Aruba Central we can configure any WLAN to use "Cloud Auth" as the authentication server, but in Global -> Security we have to choose one for the network profile. Is the use of Cloud Auth limited to one WLAN per tenant?