HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass Configuration

Course Duration

5 Days

Audience

Employees of federal, state and local governments; and businesses working with the government.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of networking concepts, AAA (authentication, authorization, accounting), and 802.1X. No prior ClearPass experience required.

Course Description

The 5-day HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass Configuration course prepares you with foundational skills in Network Access Control using the ClearPass product portfolio. This course includes both instructional modules and labs to teach you about the major features of the ClearPass portfolio. You will learn how to set up ClearPass as an AAA server, and configure the Policy Manager, Guest, OnGuard, and Onboard feature sets. In addition, this course covers integration with external Active Directory servers, monitoring and reporting, as well as deployment best practices. The student will gain insight into configuring authentication with ClearPass on both wired and wireless networks

Learning Objectives

• Implement a ClearPass network access solution
• Design and apply effective services and enforcement in ClearPass
• Troubleshoot a ClearPass solution

Course Outline

Course Modules

• Introduction to HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass
• Network Access Control
• ClearPass use cases
• ClearPass system
• AAA
• AAA explained
• Authentication sources
• External devices
• Network access devices
• Messaging services
• External context servers
• Endpoint profiling
• Introduction to profiling
• Profiling collector
• Roles and enforcement
• Services
• Enforcement
• ClearPass roles
• Configuring services
• Service selection rules
• Creating services
• Configuring web services
• Content Manager
• Skins
• Web page editor
• Guest authentication
• Captive portal process
• Web logins
• Guest accounts
• Guest access with MAC authentication
• Guest access self registration
• Self registration experience
• Configuring self registration
• Self registration process
• Wired authentication
• Wired access
• Wired enforcement
• Profiling on wired ports
• OnGuard configuration
• Introduction
• Posture policies
• OnGuard Software agent
• Monitoring OnGuard Software
• OnGuard in enforcement
• OnGuard workflow
• OnGuard enforcement
• ClearPass Onboard Software provisioning
• Configuring certificate authorities
• Portal setup
• ClearPass Onboard Software Administration
• Managing certificates
• Managing users and devices
• Certificate revocation and OCSP
• Administrative operations
• Licenses
• Certificates
• Updates and upgrades
• Backups
• Gathering logs
• Administrative access
• Admin access to NADs
• Admin access to Policy Manager
• Guest operator logins
• ClearPass Device Insight reports
• Alerts
• Reports
• Administration

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