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It’s all fun and games until someone looses an AI

What follows is a story about my journey into AI driven network automation, and here’s what I hope you’ll get out of it: If you want to jump straight to what I did, check out these two GitHub repos: 1. System Acceptance Tests for AOS-CX switches, using Robot Framework against the AOS-CX REST API: github.com/crispyfi/robotframework-aos-cx 2. A…

A tale of two APIs and a humble (feature) request

I’ve been doing some automation work lately that involves validating specific state information for AOS-CX switches. Being a good digital citizen, I reached straight for the Central MRT API. I very quickly discovered that the things I needed to check weren’t covered by the API. Looking at the Postman Collection, the MRT API can show…

OpenRoaming with Central NAC

This will be a day long remembered In only a few minutes you can setup HPE Aruba Networking Central NAC to allow anyone with an OpenRoaming profile to connect to your Wi-Fi network. Central NAC will perform the Access Network Provider (ANP) role in the OpenRoaming ecosystem, functioning as a RadSec proxy for authentication to…

EAP-TLS with Entra ID + Intune + Central NAC w/ PKI

Overview This deployment guide describes how to configure HPE Aruba Networking Central NAC with Microsoft Entra ID and Intune to: It is possible to configure all of the above using the core feature set of Central NAC which does not require any additional licensing beyond Foundation AP licenses. The following components must be configured: Microsoft…

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