Aruba ClearPass Essentials (CPE) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Intro to ClearPass

  • BYOD
  • High Level Overview
  • Posture and Profiling
  • Guest and Onboard

ClearPass for AAA

  • Policy Service Rules
  • Authentication Authorization and Roles
  • Enforcement Policy and Profiles

Authentication and Security Concepts

  • Authentication Types
  • Servers
  • Radius COA
  • Active Directory
  • Certificates

Intro to NAD

  • NAD Devices
  • Adding NAD to ClearPass
  • Network Device Groups
  • Network Device Attributes
  • Aruba Controller as NAD
  • Aruba Switch
  • Aruba Instant

Monitoring and Troubleshooting

  • Monitoring
  • Troubleshooting
  • Logging
  • Policy Simulation

ClearPass Insight

  • Insight Dashboard
  • Insight Reports
  • Insight Alerts
  • Insight Search
  • Insight Administration
  • Insight Replication

Active Directory

  • Adding AD as Auth Source
  • Joining AD domain
  • Using AD services

External Authentication

  • Multiple AD domains
  • LDAP
  • Static Host Lists
  • SQL Database
  • External Radius Server

Guest

  • Guest Account creation
  • Web Login pages
  • Guest Service configuration
  • Self-registration pages
  • Configuring NADS for Guest
  • Guest Manager Deep Dive
  • Web Login Deep Dive
  • Sponsor Approval
  • MAC Caching

Onboard

  • Intro to Onboard
  • Basic Onboard Setup
  • Onboard Deepdive
  • Single SSID Onboarding
  • Dual SSID Onboarding

Profiling

  • Intro to Profiling
  • Endpoint Analysis Deep Dive

Posture

  • Intro to Posture
  • Posture Deployment Options
  • OnGuard Agent Health Collection
  • OnGuard workflow
  • 802.1x with Posture using Persistent/dissolvable agent
  • OnGuard web Login
  • Monitoring and Updates

Operation and Admin Users

  • Operations
  • Admin Users

Clustering and Redundancy

  • Clustering
  • Redundancy
  • LAB

Licensing

  • ClearPass Licensing
  • Base License
  • Applications

Single Sign-On

  • Deployment Options
  • ClearPass Admin Login SSO
  • Access Network SSO
  • ASO-Auto-Sign On
  • Configuration and Demo

ClearPass Exchange

  • Intro
  • Examples
  • General HTTP Palo Alto Firewall
  • Configuration

Case Study

  • Objectives
  • Discussion
  • Advanced Labs Overview