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This short technote "Aruba New Central Device Insights and ClearPass Integration" as the name suggests covers the integrating ClearPass and Aruba New Central . With this integration Aruba Central sends the device profiling information and insights to ClearPass.  Device Insight (DI) is part of the Aruba Central Platform and uses data collectors (APs, CX switches and gateways) that are on your network to continuously gather metadata. You can then setup device tags based on location, application categories/types, device type/OS attributes used in ClearPass enforcement policies.

Hope you'll find it useful and as always please send through your feedback for improvement.

Issue with this solution, is that Clearpass information is overwritten.
I have tried this earlier, but had to remove it, because that systems like raspberry pi where recognized in Central as linux computers, not raspberry pi. And therefore the rule in Central got corrupted, and the systems where sent to different network. As of many other systems as well.

Had it only added the Device insight rule, it would have been a lot better, but when it screws up the database in central, then its useless. :(

I had so much hope for this, and still have, but I cannot have central rewriting Clearpass with other categories/family that is more general than Clearpass' database.

Anyone that have found an solution to this?

This short technote "Aruba New Central Device Insights and ClearPass Integration" as the name suggests covers the integrating ClearPass and Aruba New Central . With this integration Aruba Central sends the device profiling information and insights to ClearPass.  Device Insight (DI) is part of the Aruba Central Platform and uses data collectors (APs, CX switches and gateways) that are on your network to continuously gather metadata. You can then setup device tags based on location, application categories/types, device type/OS attributes used in ClearPass enforcement policies.

Hope you'll find it useful and as always please send through your feedback for improvement.

with New Central, the device gets profiled a lot better. Like in this case of RPi, the vendor for it is "Raspberry Pi". See the screenshot below.

Issue with this solution, is that Clearpass information is overwritten.
I have tried this earlier, but had to remove it, because that systems like raspberry pi where recognized in Central as linux computers, not raspberry pi. And therefore the rule in Central got corrupted, and the systems where sent to different network. As of many other systems as well.

Had it only added the Device insight rule, it would have been a lot better, but when it screws up the database in central, then its useless. :(

I had so much hope for this, and still have, but I cannot have central rewriting Clearpass with other categories/family that is more general than Clearpass' database.

Anyone that have found an solution to this?

This short technote "Aruba New Central Device Insights and ClearPass Integration" as the name suggests covers the integrating ClearPass and Aruba New Central . With this integration Aruba Central sends the device profiling information and insights to ClearPass.  Device Insight (DI) is part of the Aruba Central Platform and uses data collectors (APs, CX switches and gateways) that are on your network to continuously gather metadata. You can then setup device tags based on location, application categories/types, device type/OS attributes used in ClearPass enforcement policies.

Hope you'll find it useful and as always please send through your feedback for improvement.

Check out Evoko Naso booking plates.

Clearpass has the ability to map those to Evoko Family.

Central - Not so much.

If I now enable this integration between Central and Clearpass, then classification will be overwritten as Unclassified or set to something quite different, like Generic or Smartdevice or something else.

with New Central, the device gets profiled a lot better. Like in this case of RPi, the vendor for it is "Raspberry Pi". See the screenshot below.

Issue with this solution, is that Clearpass information is overwritten.
I have tried this earlier, but had to remove it, because that systems like raspberry pi where recognized in Central as linux computers, not raspberry pi. And therefore the rule in Central got corrupted, and the systems where sent to different network. As of many other systems as well.

Had it only added the Device insight rule, it would have been a lot better, but when it screws up the database in central, then its useless. :(

I had so much hope for this, and still have, but I cannot have central rewriting Clearpass with other categories/family that is more general than Clearpass' database.

Anyone that have found an solution to this?

This short technote "Aruba New Central Device Insights and ClearPass Integration" as the name suggests covers the integrating ClearPass and Aruba New Central . With this integration Aruba Central sends the device profiling information and insights to ClearPass.  Device Insight (DI) is part of the Aruba Central Platform and uses data collectors (APs, CX switches and gateways) that are on your network to continuously gather metadata. You can then setup device tags based on location, application categories/types, device type/OS attributes used in ClearPass enforcement policies.

Hope you'll find it useful and as always please send through your feedback for improvement.