Actually, the HP Enterprise networking group is basically run by Aruba.
We had an issue with our Airwave server missing data. The culprit, at least in
our case turned out to be a Cisco ASA firewall that was dropping some UDP
traffic it was supposed to allow. We moved the server outside that firewall to
resolve the issue. A server can also drop data if it is not powerful enough for
the load. We had that issue before upgrading to our current hardware.
We have found Aruba support as very good and they will work on adding needed
features when requested. One thing we like about Airwave is that, at least with
Aruba APS, it detects AP reboots that occur between controller scans. Airwave
alerts when the number of reboots is not what it expected, which helps with
troubleshooting.
Bruce Osborne
Wireless Engineer
IT Network Services - Wireless
(434) 592-4229
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From: Oliver Elliott [mailto:oliver.elli...@bristol.ac.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 3:49 AM
Subject: Re: Alternatives to PI for Cisco WLAN
We trialed Airwave for a bit a year ago. The software itself blows PI out of
the water but the Cisco support wasn't quite good enough. There is lag for
support of newer APs (which PI also has to be fair), but more importantly there
were lots of gaps in the data for several of our APs. Shortly after Aruba got
bought out by HP so I don't imagine 3rd party support is going to be a high
priority sadly.
Oli
On 25 March 2016 at 12:46, Lee H Badman
mailto:lhbad...@syr.edu>> wrote:
For those of you that moved away from Cisco's PI, what have you gone to? And
how has it worked?
Lee Badman (mobile)
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