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HPE Aruba Networking Central Integration

Enabling integration between HPE Aruba Networking Central and UXI

Updated over a week ago

You can now effortlessly see your User Experience Insight (UXI) wireless predefined test result data directly within Central in the new public preview application planet. To get started, make sure your UXI and Central are on the same GreenLake Cloud Platform workspace. Once that is done, your UXI data is automatically integrated into Central, and you no longer need to create API tokens for this integration to work. This streamlined approach makes it easier than ever to access and visualize your UXI data all in one place. If you are ready to migrate your dashboard to the GreenLake cloud platform, you can follow the migration guide here.

Setting up the new HPE Aruba Networking Central to UXI integration

Prerequisite:

  • Your User Experience Insight dashboard should be part of HPE GreenLake Cloud Platform. If you are ready to migrate your dashboard to the GreenLake cloud platform, you can follow the migration guide here.

  • HPE Aruba Networking Central and User Experience Insight service should be part of the same GreenLake Workspace (standalone workspace or MSP customer-owned workspace types are supported).

Steps to access UXI data in the new HPE Aruba Networking Central:

  • Toggle to access the new HPE Aruba Networking Central.

  • Navigate to the Site that has UXI sensors and/or Agents performing UXI predefined application tests on wireless, where the HPE Aruba Networking APs are managed by Central.

  • Navigate to Application Planet > Application (for example, Facebook) > select the UXI tab.

  • You will see charts for latency, packet loss, jitter, and VOIP MOS (for collaboration apps only) displayed for the application, based on the data received from UXI sensors or agents.

Note: We currently only support wireless metrics from UXI predefined applications into the Application Planet.


Application Planet with the UXI Status Column

Microsoft Teams Application Analytics UXI Tab

Note: If you do not see the UXI data under the new HPE Aruba Networking Central and UXI and Central are on the same GreenLake Cloud Platform workspace, please open a support case with HPE Aruba Networking TAC (ERT) or UXI TAC support.

For further information on the application planet, please refer to the Central documentation here.

Setting up the Classic HPE Aruba Networking Central to UXI Integration

This method is only appropriate if you are using Wi-Fi Easy Connect Device Provisioning Protocol to onboard your sensors, or you use the traditional Network Health View Map widget to see the status of your sites using Central cloud or on-prem.

Prerequisite:

Sensors have to be configured to test an SSID on an AP that is mapped to a physical site on HPE Aruba Networking Central.

Using the HPE GreenLake Cloud Platform:

  1. Login to your HPE Greenlake Account.

  2. Launch your HPE Aruba Networking Central account from Applications.

  3. Navigate to Organization > Platform Integration > Rest API > System Apps & Tokens

  4. Click on +Add Apps and Tokens

  5. Enter an Application Name to easily identify where this token is being used, and click on Generate.

5. Once the token is generated, note down the Client ID and Client Secret.

6. Scroll down and click on Download Token to download and save the JSON file.

7. Navigate to the APIs tab and note down the URL(grab the first part) listed under Documentation.

8. Log in to the UXI Dashboard.

9. Navigate to Settings>Account>Integrations.

10. Click on Link Central Account.

11. Select Server Type: Cloud or On-Prem.

For Central cloud accounts: Enter the Client ID, Secret, Cluster URL and upload the JSON file obtained from the Central dashboard as a Token and click Add.

For Central On-Prem:

Note: The following IP addresses (UXI Cloud backend) should be allowed to initiate API calls (port 443) to COP:

  • 54.190.18.21

  • 52.88.224.46

  • 54.71.247.190

  • 34.210.97.95

Enter Client ID, Secret, and Token File obtained while creating API token on the Central account. If your server is using a self-signed certificate, disable SSL Verification. Else let it remain enabled.

12. Select Add.

In 5-10 minutes, User Experience will appear on Central’s network health map view and can be viewed by clicking on the site pins. Clicking on the User Experience alerts will redirect you to https://dashboard.capenetworks.com to dig deeper.

Here is a quick video setting up HPE Aruba Networking Central Integration with UXI dashboard:

Things to note:

  1. This integration is supported on Central v2.5.2 and later

  2. Please do not reuse the generated Central Token for anything else

  3. The sensors will automatically sync with Central to be mapped to their respective Sites once every day. If a manual refresh is needed, you can click on the refresh button on the UXI dashboard

Key Limitations for MSP mode:

  • If you have MSP mode in GreenLake Cloud Platform, and if you create an API token from the Central account inside MSP and insert the token in the UXI dashboard, you will not see sensors mapped to the site. To have proper sensors mapping to the site, you will have to create an API token from the actual customer account's Central instance.

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