Airwave Installation, Configuration & Use

This hands-on course prepares you with the knowledge and experience required to install and use the AirWave Wireless Management Suite: AirWave Management Platform (AMP), RAPIDS, Visual RF, network health diagnostics, client troubleshooting, alerts and reporting. In this course, you learn about AirWave’s capabilities in troubleshooting network health and client status via the various stages of association and authentication, as well as redundancy and master consoles for large networks.

Course outline

Introduction to AWMS
- Airwave Platform
- Features and Benefits of AMP RAPIDS and Visual RF Airwave products
- Basic operations using AWMS
Installing AWMS
- Installing AMP hardware requirements
- CentOS and AWMS software
- Basic configuration steps
- Upgrading AWMS software
- Licensing AWMS
- AWMS documentation
Adding Devices to AWMS
- Folders and Groups
- General process for adding devices
- Manually adding devices
- Device discovery and managing device discovery
- Moving a device to a folder
- Troubleshooting
IAP Organization and Groups
- Overview of IAP Airwave integration
- Golden configuration
- IAP organization options
- IAP Whitelist
Using Visual RF and Visual RF Plan
- Navigation and setup
- Heatmaps and location information
- Importing floorplan graphics
- Planning deployments
- Provisioning APs
- Managing Visual RF performance
Network Health
- Diagnostics page indicators
- Network performance tabs
- Sources of issues
- Network issues
Troubleshooting Clients and Wireless Networks
- Searching for users and the Diagnostics tab
- Client issues
- Network issues
- AP issues
- Switch/Controller issues
- General issues
Rogue Detection and Using RAPIDS
- Why use RAPIDS
- Threat detection methods
- Rules and classifications
- IDS events report
- New rogue devices report
- Visualization and PCI compliance
- WMS offload
Managing Administrative Access, Alerts, Triggers, and Reporting
- Configuring role-based administrative access to the AMP system
- Triggers and alerts
- Defining and generating reports
Scalability and Redundancy
- VM redundancy and failover
- Master console for large deployments
- Multiple AMP server deployments
- Large deployment example
System Administration
- AMP maintenance
- Device maintenance
Wired Device Management
- Monitoring wired devices in AWMS
- Wired device port and interface information
- Wired device bandwidth statistics and counters
- Managing and configuring wired devices via AWMS templates
Airwave Aruba Groups
- How AWMS configures devices
- Using groups to control policies
- Creating and controlling groups
- Basic group design
- Configuration audits
Configuring Aruba Devices
- Configuring Aruba devices via AWMS GUI
- Auditing and configuration
- Managing profiles on AWMS
- Pushing configuration to controllers
- Visibility and additional troubleshooting
IAP Template Configuration
- Fetching a template
- Template variables
- Template configuration
IAP GUI Configuration
- Golden configuration in GUI mode
- GUI configuration
Cisco Groups and Firmware Updates
- Configuring AWMS to manage Cisco devices
- Using groups to control policies
- Creating and controlling groups
- Basic group design
- Configuration audits
Configuring Cisco Devices with IOS Templates
- Configuring groups for Cisco IOS devices
- Configuring group templates for Cisco IOS devices
- Making changes using template variables
Cisco WLC Configuration
- Cisco Wireless LAN controllers
- Cisco WLC configuration

Course objectives

After you successfully complete this course, expect to be able to:

Install AWMS 8.x
Demonstrate adding devices on the network to the Airwave Management Server
Understand Visual RF heatmaps and location information
Demonstrate how to troubleshoot wireless network issues using Airwave
Understand how to use RAPIDS to identify and locate rogues
Demonstrate how to manage and administer an Airwave Management Suite and configure Devices using AWMS

Who should attend?

Ideal candidates are Network Administrators who monitor and troubleshoot wireless networks, and Network and System Administrators responsible for installing and configuring network monitoring systems.

Prerequisites

It is recommended to have fundamental basic knowledge of WLAN concepts and terminology. Familiarity of wireless networking designing, operational besides, wired networking and installing network monitor software.