Aruba Central monitoring

Hi Brian

As a generalization, I would expect that Aruba Central presents many similar metrics to what Meraki does; so in that sense replicating what Logicmonitor already does with regards to Meraki by substituting the corresponding Aruba entity would be a great way to think about a baseline.  I have never seen what Logicmonitor's capabilities are with regards to Meraki but I would completely expect that LM worked with customers to ID the highest value metrics that it captures and presents.

More specifically, I would say that we have the most immediate interest in the Network Operations app (only with Access Points currently, no switches or other SD WAN gateways) and within that here are some of the valuable metrics. (Again I'd expect that these are similar to what LM does with Meraki).  Its too much to paste in a bunch of screenshots so this is just a listing, but I'd be happy to zoom and screenshare with you if that would help.

• Overview --> Summary tab
  • Clients
  • Bandwidth Usage per Network
  • Client count per Network
  • Top APs by Usage
  • Top Clients by Usage
• Overview --> WiFi Connectivity tab
  • All: Connection Experience (summary graph that shows overall success rate of Association, Authentication, DHCP, DNS)
• Devices --> Access Points
  • Access points (Access Point name, status, address, model, sn#)
  • Access points (Access Point name, band, channel, utilization, power, noise
• Clients --> All
  • Client name, status, connected to

Mike.

Brian

I forgot to include that it would also be valuable to figure out how to include data from "Alerts & Events".   Initially maybe it would be enough only to be able to collect a count of the existing alerts, their respective severity and their Aruba Central status (open/ack'ed).  And I think a longer term ideal would probably be to figure out how to send events directly to LMLogs.

Another frame of reference that might be helpful in thinking about how to achieve and present both the above and my first reply would be to consider "Aruba Central" as a monitored resource in much the same way as a Vmware vCenter or an on-premises Aruba Controller is: lots of multi-instance datasources where instances provide insight into individual entities generated not by polling that individual entity but by polling the centralized resource.

Mike.

@Michael Dieter I am curious what sort of data you would like to have collected from the API?

Just throwing in my support behind integrating Aruba Central into Logic Monitor. We are a prospective LM customer and this was one of our initial asks as well, as we are rolling out Aruba using their Central cloud. 

@Brian Gladden, making sure you saw this.

Hey Team,

I was just wondering if there was much or any head way on this?

@Brian Gladden @Stuart WeenigJust following up a few months later, we are taking on Aruba as a product set and specifically using Aruba Central and again would also love to see if there is any traction on this?

Hi @SeanStarson - We're looking into this, but don't yet have any official plans. We'll keep you updated with progress :)/emoticons/smile@2x.png 2x" title=":)" width="20" /> 

Thanks @Michael Dieterfor the detailed response on desired monitoring!

Ideally we'll build this as a cloud integration since the information is available via API, but traditional DataSources may be a faster short term option. 

@Michael Dieter
Did you ever come up with any datasources for ArubaCentral at all.

Also how large is the environment that you are aiming to monitor (AP count etc), more for curiosity as API limits seem to be a bit of the pain at the moment (though it can be increased by making a TAC case).

Sean.

@SeanStarson

We never tried to develop any ArubaCentral datasources on our own and never followed up with LM product development beyond this thread.   The environment was ~100 APs deployed in a local apartment complex; each apartment served by its own account with the dominant local ISP.   But the University opted not to renew those apartment leases for the fall 2021 semester and as such our use-case disappeared so we decommissioned our APs and had no need to continue to pursue datasources.   I'll continue to pay attention to what progress LM may make since Aruba Central may become a good match for the University as our other use-cases evolve along with Aruba's product offerings.