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Aruba 7240 - Initial Setup

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  • 1.  Aruba 7240 - Initial Setup

    Posted Feb 11, 2014 02:47 PM

    When going through the setup dialog on a 7240, which mac-address do we enter when asked to "Enter Master switch MAC address"? Interface? System HW?  VRRP mac?

     

    We have a master and a backup master so I was curious as to how hard coding the master's mac-address would work. I am currently pointing all locals to the VRRP address.

     

    Thanks in advance for your help.


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  • 2.  RE: Aruba 7240 - Initial Setup
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    Posted Feb 11, 2014 04:53 PM

    In a Master-Local and/or Master-Redundant-Master setup the controller will communicate which eachother using IPSec tunnels. These IPSec tunnels can be established either through PSK's or factory certificates; these certs are issued based on the MAC address of the controller.

     

    In most cases I will use strong PSK's, but you can go either way...

     

    I have never used the setup dialog to setup clustering, I ussually bring up each controller as a master and take it from there. The setup dialog will not account for things like LACP for example.

     

    Also check out the Aruba Mobility Controller VRD: http://www.arubanetworks.com/wp-content/uploads/MControllerVRDV9.pdf


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  • 3.  RE: Aruba 7240 - Initial Setup

    Posted Feb 13, 2014 06:22 PM

    Thank you for the information. 


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