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June 2008 Edition 1725-36080-001 Revision J VIEW Certified Configuration Guide Aruba Mobility Controllers A200, A800, A2400, A6000.
Configuration Guide PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc 2 Trademark Information Polycom® and t he logo design s SpectraLink® LinkPlus Link NetLink SVP Are trademarks and registe red trademarks of Polycom, Inc. in the Un ited States of Am erica and various c ountries.
Aruba Mobility Controllers: A200, A800, A2400, A6000 PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc 3 Introduction Polycom’s Voice Interoperability for Enterprise Wireless (VIEW) Certification Program is designed to ensure interoperability and high performance between SpectraLink Wireless Telephones and WLAN infrastructure products.
Configuration Guide PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc 4 Network Topology It is important to note that this configuration is not necessar ily applicable to all customer environments. The following topology was tested during VIEW Certification testing. Known Limitations No limitations were discovered during VIEW Certification testing.
Aruba Mobility Controllers: A200, A800, A2400, A6000 PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc 5 Deployment Description It is a SpectraLink requirement that voice users be placed on a separate VLAN (e.g., VLAN 10) and data users on a separate VLAN (e.g., VLAN 25). The voice and data VLANs reside on the Aruba mobility controller and not on the acce ss points (APs).
Configuration Guide PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc 6 Connecting to the Mobility Controller Command, comment, and screen text key In the sections below you will find commands, comments, prompts, system responses, or other screen-displayed information involved in the configuration process.
Aruba Mobility Controllers: A200, A800, A2400, A6000 PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc 7 Via the CLI By default, only SSH (Secure She ll) access to the switch (mobility controller) is permitted. 1. From a management system that has network connectivity to the switch, connect to the switch using SSH: ssh admin@< sw itch IP address > 2.
Configuration Guide PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc 8 Initial Setup Before starting, please ensure that the Policy Enforcement Firewall module license is enabled on the Aruba mobility controller. Please contact Aruba Networks for licenses and installation information.
Aruba Mobility Controllers: A200, A800, A2400, A6000 PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc 9 . . . . . <<<<< Welcome to Arub a Wireless Netw orks - Aruba 800 >>>>> .
Configuration Guide PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc 10 Assigning an IP to the Mobility Controller 1. Connect to the switch via the CLI. 2. Login with the configured username and password, admin/adm in in this example. 3. Type enable at the > prompt. 4. Type the enable password, enable in this example.
Aruba Mobility Controllers: A200, A800, A2400, A6000 PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc 11 Connecting APs Provisioning APs The APs need to be provisioned. The Aruba APs can be provisioned manually or be configured for automatic provisioning. For manual provisioning, use the Web-based AP provisioning Web page.
Configuration Guide PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc 12 SSID Configuration CLI command configuration APs can be configured using the CLI or the Web interface. Each AP is identified by a unique location code . The APs can either be configured per location with unique settings us ing the AP’s unique location code or globally using the wildcard location.
Aruba Mobility Controllers: A200, A800, A2400, A6000 PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc 13 Web-based configuration 1. Click the Configuration button. 2. In the navigation pane, select Net work from the WLAN sub-menu. 3. To edit an existing AP profile, click the Edit button corresponding to the SSID.
Configuration Guide PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc 14 Access Point Configuration Radio setting 802.11b or 802.11g When using the 802.11b/g band for the VoWiFi network, set the radio settings to 802.11b/g mixed mode. Preamble settings The tests on the Aruba system were run with the short prea mble setting.
Aruba Mobility Controllers: A200, A800, A2400, A6000 PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc 15 For additional details on RF deployment please see the Deploying Enterprise-Grade Wi-Fi Telephony white paper and the Best Practices Guide for Deploying SpectraLink 8020/8030 Wirele ss Telephones .
Configuration Guide PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc 16 CLI Commands Required Settings Default Settings Description 802.11b/g Tx rates (if all wireless client are 802.11g) These rates should be determined from RF site survey. Verify you have sufficient coverage to support data rates.
Aruba Mobility Controllers: A200, A800, A2400, A6000 PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc 1 7 CLI command configuration All of the commands listed in the CLI Commands column above must be entered under the ap location command. The format is: ap location x.y .z phy-type g (To make t he changes f or the “g” ra dio.
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Aruba Mobility Controllers: A200, A800, A2400, A6000 PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc 19 10. Click the 802.11 a tab. 11. For Max Retries , enter 2 fo r voice. 12. For the DTIM period , enter 3 . 13. For Basic Rates and Supported Rates, consult the facilities RF site survey to determine if coverage is sufficient to support all data rates.
Configuration Guide PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc 20 Dynamic RF Management — ARM Aware Scanning If Adaptive Radio Resource M anagement (ARM) Aware Scanning (RF scanning) is included in your firmware release, it can be enabled through the command line interface as follows: configure termina l ap location x.
Aruba Mobility Controllers: A200, A800, A2400, A6000 PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc 21 Security Policies and QoS Once the basic infrastructure is conf igured, it is necessary to configure the security policies to ensure that the data network and the voice network are secured and access to these networks is limited as required.
Configuration Guide PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc 22 Create policies for the wireless telephone user The policies shown in the above example can be configured using the Web interface as follows:.
Aruba Mobility Controllers: A200, A800, A2400, A6000 PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc 23 Assign policies to the role Create a role, for example phones , and assign the policies to this role. This is the role that would be assigned to the handsets when they are authenticated successfully.
Configuration Guide PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc 24 alias svp_s erver user svc-svp per mit queue high user alias tftp-serv er svc-tftp permit user alias dhcp-serv er svc-dhcp permit user host 22 4.
Aruba Mobility Controllers: A200, A800, A2400, A6000 PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc 25 Authentication In addition to the encryption, Aruba recommends the use of MAC authentication to authenticate th e Spectralink handsets. On the Aruba System, the roles for SpectraLink Wireless Telephones are derived using MAC-authentication.
Configuration Guide PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc 26 Quality of Service (QoS) Quality of service is achieved by prioritizing the SpectraLink voice traffic over data traffic.
Aruba Mobility Controllers: A200, A800, A2400, A6000 PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc 2 7 Subnet Roaming The Aruba system can be set up to support inter-switch inter-subnet roaming.
Configuration Guide PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc 28 CLI Commands to Set Up Subnet Roaming Commands for the master switch (the Aruba 800) Configure termina l ip default-gate way <ip_addr of router> ap location 1.1.0 (#ap connected to 800) lms-ip <ip_ addr of 80 0 switch> ap location 1.
Aruba Mobility Controllers: A200, A800, A2400, A6000 PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc 29 It’s also necessary to set the def ault gateway of the SpectraLink 8000 SVP Server and SpectraLink 8000 Telephony Gateway to the IP address of the router connected to the master switch.
Configuration Guide PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc 30 Checking the Configuration Verify connectivity by pinging between the switches, the APs, and the server and gateway. The switch and AP are now ready for use with the SpectraLink Wireless Telephones. To show AP settings: show ap config loc ation x.
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