Aruba User Experience Insight sensors now support 802.1X authentication on wired networks. Many enterprises use 802.1X to provide an authentication mechanism to client devices attempting to attach to a wired or wireless network. Sensors already support 802.1X authentication on wireless networks. 

With this update, you can provide security credentials to use 802.1X on a wired connection. You can do this on the dashboard by going to
Settings > Networks > Wired > Add or Edit a Network.
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The Aruba UXI sensor will update its configuration and use these credentials to authenticate on the network through the switch.
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Things to know:

Security credentials can either be None or Enterprise. Passphrase is not a valid option on wired connections. With this feature, we now support: PEAP, LEAP, EAP-TTLS, EAP-TLS on wired as well as wireless networks.
​The sensor performs EAP-TLS with whatever certificate is provided. Most often this is a user certificate because those are easier to generate but if your PKI team can generate a machine certificate, that would be fine as well (usually though those are hard to generate). The certificate must be #PKCS12 format which includes the certificate and the private key for the certificate.

Machine certificate vs user certificate authentication is only a Microsoft concept. From a sensor perspective, it's just EAP-TLS.

For all User Experience Insight updates, see our updates page, otherwise get started with this new feature today.
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