Wireless Access

Hi,

I've 3 Aruba Instant AP's for my single vlan home network. My network has a lot of Airplay / Apple Devices / NAS with DLNA services / NAS with TimeMachine. 

I'm trying to set up Aruba Airgroup correctly but I never completely succeed.  I enable the Bonjour and DLNA under the Airgroup configuration tab. Also I select all required Airgroup services (Airprint, Airplay, DLNA media,...).

If I do the above setup some Apple devices for Airplay come available and others not. My TimeMachine coming from my NAS for example is still not visible, my receiver with Airplay is also not visible on my MAC. I can also not discover my Airport Expressess used for Airplay from my macbook.

Are there some other related settings I need to configure to get it to work correctly? 

Another solution I use is to currently solve it: just disable Aigroup completely (also unselect Bonjour and DLNA) and set the "Broadcast Filtering" setting of your wireless network to "Disabled". Then all Airplay, DLNA, Apple devices / services are available to all clients.

Does anyone know which is the best way to setup Airgroup in my situation?

Thanks

Theoretically, that is all you should need to do UNLESS, your devices use a service-id that is not listed.  With Airgroup on, on your Virtual Controller, type "show airgroup blocked-queries" and "show airgroup blocked-service-id" to see if your devices are using service ids that are not being used.

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. See below my Airgroup status. 

How do I interpreted the blocked lines?

IAP# show airgroup status 

AirGroup Information
--------------------
Feature               Status
-------               ------
MDNS                  Enabled
DLNA                  Enabled
Enforce Registration  Disabled
IPV6                  Disabled
                      
AirGroup Multi Swarm
--------------------
Status
------
Disabled

AirGroup Guest Multicast
------------------------
Status
------
Disabled

CPPM Parameters
---------------
Parameter                   Value
---------                   -----
CPPM Enforce Registration   Disabled
CPPM Server query interval  10 Hours
CPPM Server dead time       100 Seconds
                            
AirGroup Service Information
----------------------------
Service     Status
-------     ------
airplay     Enabled
airprint    Enabled
itunes      Enabled
remotemgmt  Disabled
sharing     Enabled
googlecast  Disabled
AmazonTV    Disabled
DIAL        Disabled
DLNA Media  Enabled
DLNA Print  Enabled
allowall    Disabled

IAP# show airgroup blocked-queries

AirGroup dropped Query IDs
--------------------------
Service ID                                               #query-hits  Thread Num
----------                                               -----------  ----------
_smb._tcp                                                4            1
_apple-pairable._tcp                                     1            1
urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:ContentDirectory:1          8            1
_net-assistant._udp                                      2            1
urn:schemas-intel-com:service:PowerManagement:1          8            1
urn:microsoft.com:service:X_MS_MediaReceiverRegistrar:1  8            1
_iphoneos._tcp                                           2            1
_fb._tcp                                                 4            1
973b0803._sub._apple-mobdev2._tcp                        1            1
urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:WANIPConnection:1           8            1
_companion-link._tcp                                     50           1
_homekit._tcp                                            49           1
_sleep-proxy._udp                                        51           1
urn:schemas-digion-com:service:X_AccessControl:1         8            1
_uscan._tcp                                              1            1
urn:schemas-dm-holdings-com:service:X_WholeHomeAudio:1   8            1
urn:schemas-digion-com:service:X_Landisk:1               8            1
_adisk._tcp                                              12           1
_airport._tcp                                            5            1
_ippusb._tcp                                             1            1
_uscans._tcp                                             1            1
Num dropped Query IDs:21

IAP# show airgroup blocked-service-id

AirGroup Blocked Service IDs
----------------------------
Origin         Service ID                                               #response-hits
------         ----------                                               --------------
192.168.1.1    urn:schemas-upnp-org:device:WANDevice:1                  2
192.168.1.231  urn:schemas-upnp-org:device:NAS:1                        2
192.168.1.231  urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:ContentDirectory:1          30
192.168.1.1    urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:WANPPPConnection:1          2
192.168.1.1    urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:WANCommonInterfaceConfig:1  2
192.168.1.1    urn:schemas-upnp-org:device:WANConnectionDevice:1        4
192.168.1.26   urn:dial-multiscreen-org:device:dialreceiver:1           2
192.168.1.1    urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:WANIPConnection:1           2
192.168.1.25   urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:ConnectionManager:1         34
192.168.1.25   urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:RenderingControl:1          4
192.168.1.1    urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:Layer3Forwarding:1          2
192.168.1.26   urn:dial-multiscreen-org:service:dial:1                  2
192.168.1.25   urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:AVTransport:1               4
192.168.1.1    urn:schemas-upnp-org:device:InternetGatewayDevice:1      2
Num Blocked Service-ID:14

As a test, try the "allowall" service, if you have not already:

https://community.arubanetworks.com/t5/Controller-less-WLANs/Functionality-of-quot-AllowAll-quot-service-under-airgroup-in/ta-p/253028

Sorry for the late reply but I was busy with other stuff.

Even with allowall on for Airgroup I can't see all devices. The only solution I still see is by disabling broadcast filtering :s.

When I change aigroup settings I see checksum mismatch messages in my log. Is that normal?

Oct 26 16:22:52  cli[2579]: <341004> <WARN> |AP 80:8d:b7:c0:ed:32@192.168.1.35 cli|  The DRT version is not newer than current DRT table
Oct 26 16:23:39  cli[2579]: <341101> <WARN> |AP 80:8d:b7:c0:ed:32@192.168.1.35 cli|  Execute command-configure terminal.
Oct 26 16:23:39  cli[2579]: <341101> <WARN> |AP 80:8d:b7:c0:ed:32@192.168.1.35 cli|  Execute command-airgroupservice allowall.
Oct 26 16:23:39  cli[2579]: <341101> <WARN> |AP 80:8d:b7:c0:ed:32@192.168.1.35 cli|  Execute command-enable.
Oct 26 16:23:39  cli[2579]: <341101> <WARN> |AP 80:8d:b7:c0:ed:32@192.168.1.35 cli|  Execute command-exit.
Oct 26 16:23:39  cli[2579]: <341101> <WARN> |AP 80:8d:b7:c0:ed:32@192.168.1.35 cli|  Execute command-end.
Oct 26 16:23:39  cli[2579]: <341254> <WARN> |AP 80:8d:b7:c0:ed:32@192.168.1.35 cli|  VC add delta configuration id 16 to msg CLI_EXECUTE_CONFIG_COMMAND.
Oct 26 16:23:39  cli[2579]: <341251> <WARN> |AP 80:8d:b7:c0:ed:32@192.168.1.35 cli|  VC record new delta configuration entry. cfg_id 16 current 16 top 15 len 55 port 15200 flags 1 seq 0

Oct 26 16:23:39  cli[2579]: <341004> <WARN> |AP 80:8d:b7:c0:ed:32@192.168.1.35 cli|  The DRT version is not newer than current DRT table
Oct 26 16:23:41  cli[2579]: <341132> <WARN> |AP 80:8d:b7:c0:ed:32@192.168.1.35 cli|  Check sum mismatch for AP-192.168.1.37, slave 1729 vs master 34134, error_cnt 1, recover_sent 0.
Oct 26 16:23:43  cli[2579]: <341132> <WARN> |AP 80:8d:b7:c0:ed:32@192.168.1.35 cli|  Check sum mismatch for AP-192.168.1.38, slave 1729 vs master 34134, error_cnt 1, recover_sent 0.
Oct 26 16:24:09  cli[2579]: <341004> <WARN> |AP 80:8d:b7:c0:ed:32@192.168.1.35 cli|  The DRT version is not newer than current DRT table