ArAAruba AirWave: Enterprise Wired and Wireless Network Management

Aruba AirWave Network Management software provides a vendor independent network management platform for your network. Primarily used as a tool to manage your Aruba wireless network, why not use AirWave to manage the rest of your network too?

Why not request your FREE AirWave evaluation key today and find out for yourself what AirWave can do for you.

Aruba AirWave Hardware Platform

• Aruba AirWave is available as a software licence to run on your own hardware, or there is a dedicated AirWave Hardware Appliance

Aruba Airwave Wired Network Management

• Monitors and manages Cisco edge switches
• Monitors HP and NETGEAR edge switches
• Generates reports on wired port utilization in support of capacity planning and network rightsizing activities

Root Cause Analysis and Event Correlation

• AirWave maps upstream relationships between APs, controllers and switches
• Correlates upstream problems with downstream events such as down APs

Efficient Configuration Management

• AirwWave provides configuration Management of Cisco edge switches using text-based templates
• Configuration policies defined using a web-based interface or by importing a "known good" configuration from an existing device

Better Real-Time Visualization with AirWave VisualRF

• Visual RF provides voice overlay displays coverage for voice handsets, including a radio count heat map
• Provides above- and below-floor views for all overlays
• Displays edge switches and wiring closets for a full view of the network edge
• "Locate now" button recalculates client locations so you can properly diagnose clients
• "Strobe visible devices" feature allows Visual RF to set search criteria and quickly find devices (APs, users, tags, etc.) from a big group of devices in the area covered on the visible screen
• Visual RF provides a tree view that allows for faster navigation through campuses/buildings without using the map
• "Simulate failure" feature enables "what-if" analysis for proactive coverage planning
• Includes a Location Accuracy Report, which can be used to tune your environment to improve location accuracy beyond the 10-meter resolution that can generally be achieved without tuning

AirWave VisualRF Plan: Standalone Planning tool 

• Runs on Windows-based laptops and workstations
• Uses the same RF planning and visualization algorithms as the integrated VisualRF feature
• Allows plans made offline to be imported into the integrated VisualRF feature and vice versa

AirWave allows Better Network Planning and Provisioning

• Network planning for any AP supported by the AirWave Management Platform
• AirWave network planning includes planning for appropriate cable lengths
• Ensure proper power and data capacity on wired side
• Automatically generates bill of material reports, including wired and wireless components, in HTML and Microsoft® Word formats to simplify the quote and physical deployment process
• Support for 2007/2010 CAD files in addition to earlier CAD versions and DWG, DWF, and DFX formats
• ROGUE AP CONTAINMENT AND IDS EVENTS
• Manual or automated rogue AP containment with Aruba and Cisco controllers
• Disables switch ports with rogue APs attached
• Manages Aruba and Cisco IDS events from a single, centralized console

Easier access to Actionable Information

• AirWave creates customized views for specific roles, such as service desk or CIO
• Users can customize columns displayed in any AirWave table view (show/hide, set column order)
• Location information included in all lists
• Lets users create and save custom reports
• AirWave can export any list to CSV file
• Users can use any of your report components to build a personalized dashboard on your AMP home page
• Enhanced XML API provides for a cost-effective way to utilize AirWave data in a variety of third-party business applications

Aruba AirWave can Manage the Latest Technologies, Architectures and Products

• Support for the newest Aruba devices, including the 6xx controller series and AP-105
• Full support for Aruba’s latest management capabilities
• Cisco 5500 controller support
• Support for Cisco 6.x firmware
• Support for all HP MSM thin APs and Controller models
• 7.x support for Trapeze 
   

Aruba AirWave Downloads and Requests

Please email any questions or queries relating to this product to sales@plixer.com.au If you would like to try Aruba Airwave, please click to Request Evaluation Key below to request your free AirWave evaluation key.