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VIEW Certified Configuration Guide
Aruba
Mobility Controllers
A200, A800, A2400, A6000
June 2008 Edition
1725-36080-001
Revision J
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Configuration Guide Trademark Information Notice Polycom® and the logo designs Polycom, Inc. has prepared this document for SpectraLink® use by Polycom personnel and customers. The LinkPlus drawings and specifications contained herein Link are the property of Polycom and shall be neither NetLink reproduced in whole or in part without the prior SVP written approval of Polycom, nor be implied to Are trademarks and registered trademarks of grant any license to make, use, or sell equip
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Aruba Mobility Controllers: A200, A800, A2400, A6000 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. The products listed below have been thoroughly tested in Polycom’s lab and have passed VIEW Certification. This document details how to configure the Aruba mobility controller with SpectraLink Wireless Te
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Configuration Guide Network Topology It is important to note that this configuration is not necessarily applicable to all customer environments. The following topology was tested during VIEW Certification testing. Known Limitations No limitations were discovered during VIEW Certification testing. VIEW Certification testing verifies that the wireless telephone and the AP interoperate at the packet level; therefore, no add-on vendor features were tested in the scope of VIEW.
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Aruba Mobility Controllers: A200, A800, A2400, A6000 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 access points (APs). The user traffic is tunneled back to the Aruba controller for processing. The edge network thus does not have to be modified to accommodate the WiFi clients and the Vo
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Configuration Guide 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. This key explains the text styles and symbols used to denote them. Text Style Denotes: xxxxxxxx Typed command Encryption key, domain name or other information specific to your system that needs to be entered Comment ab
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Aruba Mobility Controllers: A200, A800, A2400, A6000 Via the CLI By default, only SSH (Secure Shell) 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@ 2. Enter the admin password at the password prompt. 3. Type enable at the > prompt to enter the enable mode. 4. Type the enable password when prompted for a password. Via the Web interface
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Configuration Guide 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. On power-up, the user is presented with the startup wizard: Enter System name [Aruba800]: Aruba Enter VLAN 1 interface IP address [172.16.0.254]: Enter VLAN 1 interface subnet mask [255.255.255.0]: Enter IP Default gateway [none]: Enter Switch Role, (m
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Aruba Mobility Controllers: A200, A800, A2400, A6000 . . . . . <<<<< Welcome to Aruba Wireless Networks - Aruba 800 >>>>> . . . . (Aruba) User: PN: 1725-36080-001_J.doc 9
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Configuration Guide Assigning an IP to the Mobility Controller 1. Connect to the switch via the CLI. 2. Login with the configured username and password, admin/admin in this example. 3. Type enable at the > prompt. 4. Type the enable password, enable in this example. 5. Type configure terminal at the # prompt. 6. Create the VLAN for the voice (vlan 25) using the VLAN command: (Aruba) (config) #vlan 25 7. Create the VLAN interface. (Aruba) (config) #interface vlan 25 8. Assign the
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Aruba Mobility Controllers: A200, A800, A2400, A6000 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. Refer to the AP Provisioning User Guide for instructions on provisioning the AP. The APs can communicate with the controller over a L2 or L3 network. The only requirement is that each AP be assigned an IP address
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Configuration Guide 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 using the AP’s unique location code or globally using the wildcard location. “0” is used as the wildcard. Example: ap location 0.0.0 will configure all Aruba APs on the WLAN system. Both the Aruba APs and the Spectralink handsets support the 802.1
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Aruba Mobility Controllers: A200, A800, A2400, A6000 Web-based configuration 1. Click the Configuration button. 2. In the navigation pane, select Network from the WLAN sub-menu. 3. To edit an existing AP profile, click the Edit button corresponding to the SSID. 4. To add a new profile, click the Add button. 5. Under Add SSID, enter aruba in the SSID field. 6. Select 802.11a/b/g from the Radio Type drop-down list to apply the SSID settings to the a/b/g radio. 7. For the SSID Default
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Configuration Guide 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 preamble setting. The short preamble setting can be used, as this supports both short and long preambles. SpectraLink Wireless Telephones only support long preamble when using the 802.11b radio. When using a dual-radio AP, use
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Aruba Mobility Controllers: A200, A800, A2400, A6000 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 Wireless Telephones. Recommended AP configuration settings CLI Commands Required Settings Default Description Settings Max-clients 40 0 Max clients that can associate with the AP. Beacon-interval Set to default 100 The interval at which beacons
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Configuration Guide CLI Commands Required Settings Default Description Settings 802.11b/g Tx rates (if These rates should be 1,2,5,11 all wireless client are determined from RF site 802.11g) survey. Verify you have sufficient coverage to support data rates. 802.11a rates These rates should be 6,9,12,24 determined from RF site survey. Verify you have sufficient coverage to support data rates. 802.11a Tx rates These rates should be 6,9,12,18,24, The supported Tx rates for dete
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Aruba Mobility Controllers: A200, A800, A2400, A6000 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 the changes for the “g” radio.) commands ! phy-type a (To make the changes for the “a” radio.) commands ! Web-based configuration 1. Click the Configuration button. 2. In the navigation pane, select Radio from the WLAN sub-menu. 3. Clic
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Aruba Mobility Controllers: A200, A800, A2400, A6000 10. Click the 802.11 a tab. 11. For Max Retries, enter 2 for 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. 14. To assign the power and channel setting manually: a. For ARM Assignment, select Disabled. b. Clear the ARM Scanning check box. c. Set the Default Channel and Initial Transmit Power fro
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Configuration Guide Dynamic RF Management — ARM Aware Scanning If Adaptive Radio Resource Management (ARM) Aware Scanning (RF scanning) is included in your firmware release, it can be enabled through the command line interface as follows: configure terminal ap location x.y.z phy-type g arm scanning enable arm assignment single-band arm voip-aware-scan enable phy-type a arm scanning enable arm assignment single-band arm voip-aware-s
