If you search for backup in the documentation, there is just a mention of the built-in backup and restore functionality.
ClearPass is a virtual appliance and as you mention does not expose the underlying operating system for security and stability reasons. I've not ever seen agents for Azure backup, so not sure why it worked for you in the past. You may open (through your Aruba partner) a request in the Aruba Innovation Zone, so the request to support Azure snapshots can be considered. You may try to turn off your appliance before making a snapshot backup, that is what I do on ESXi and works fine.
But as the normal backup and restore is documented and working for all VM/Cloud/Hardware, that is the recommended method at the moment.
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Herman Robers
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Original Message:
Sent: May 08, 2024 11:50 AM
From: gcollis
Subject: Azure Clearpass Backups stopped working after ClearPass Upgrade
is there any documentation to show that the built in backup and restore is the only supported method?
is there any documentation for the built in backup and restore?
Why would backups be offered in Azure? Why would they stop working?
Original Message:
Sent: May 08, 2024 11:11 AM
From: chulcher
Subject: Azure Clearpass Backups stopped working after ClearPass Upgrade
That's what I thought you meant but needed to make sure.
The only fully supported backup and restore option for ClearPass is the built-in backup and restore functionality. No VM backup or snapshot or whatever is supported.
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Carson Hulcher, ACEX#110
Original Message:
Sent: May 08, 2024 10:51 AM
From: gcollis
Subject: Azure Clearpass Backups stopped working after ClearPass Upgrade
Azure backups: ClearPass is deployed as VM's in Azure. You can backup these VM's in Azure like any other VM.
Azure ClearPass backups: Usually an agent would be present on the Azure VM. An extension would then be deployed to the agent to make the backup work. ClearPass VM's do not support extensions, so I am curious to know how this works. We would usually restart/remove/install the agent if we had issues with the backup. We cannot get access to the OS in ClearPass outside of the few select commands that are presented to see what is happening. e.g. is the agent running/what version is it/view logs.
Original Message:
Sent: May 08, 2024 09:43 AM
From: chulcher
Subject: Azure Clearpass Backups stopped working after ClearPass Upgrade
What do you mean by "Azure backups" or "Azure ClearPass backups"?
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Carson Hulcher, ACEX#110
Original Message:
Sent: May 08, 2024 06:29 AM
From: gcollis
Subject: Azure Clearpass Backups stopped working after ClearPass Upgrade
Hello,
Our Azure backups stopped working after upgrading ClearPass to 6.12.1
How do the Azure ClearPass backups work? Is it possible to see the backup agent/version/logs/process on the ClearPass servers etc.?