The Authentication Server is down message does not check ping, but if the server responds to RADIUS. You can check a show auth-tracebuf on the controller to see all authentication steps, and one possibility is that through a firewall or MTU issues in the path between your controller and ClearPass, RADIUS packets are lost.
Your Aruba partner, or Aruba TAC should be able to assist with this troubleshooting as well, because it may be hard to find if you have not done this before.
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Herman Robers
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Original Message:
Sent: Jul 19, 2021 09:36 AM
From: Vladimiro Viana
Subject: Keep receiving the alert "Authentication Server Radius1 is down" when it's not true.
Hello.
I have a Aruba WiFi Controller and two radius servers in my IT infrastructure.
I have the firmware 8.8.0.0_79697.
Recently I've been receing the alert "Authentication Server Radius1 with IP X.X.X.X is down", but it's not true.
Not only the ping doesn't fail once, I'm currently logged in to the server when the alert appears.
What do you guys think it is? What can I do to solve this?
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ArubaUser
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