Aruba Central
What is Aruba Central?
Aruba Central provides a cloud-based, single point of visibility and control for wired and wireless LANs, WANs, and VPNs across branch, remote, campus, data center, and IoT networks and also provides AI-powered insights, workflow automation, and edge-to-cloud security.
Why Should You Use the Connector?
The Aruba Central connector provides visibility into the network assets in your environment. You can use this visibility to:
ensure network assets are managed per your security policies
derive relationships between network assets, locations, users, applications, and data
How Does This Connector Work?
Lucidum executes read-only requests to the Aruba Central REST API and ingests only meta-data about Aruba Central devices. Lucidum does not retrieve any data stored on your assets.
Configuring the Connector in Lucidum
Field | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
URL | The URL for the Aruba Central API. | https://app1-apigw.central.arubanetworks.com |
Username | User name for a Aruba Central account with read access. | justynmutts@company.com |
Password | The password for the Aruba Central account. | ************ |
Customer ID | The unique identity number of for your Aruba Central account. To find your customer ID, click the the person (profile) icon in the top right corner Aruba Central web portal. | ************ |
Client ID | A unique ID for each application defined in Aruba Central. For details on defining an application and copying the client ID, see https://developer.arubanetworks.com/aruba-central/docs/api-gateway-creating-application-token | ************ |
Client Secret | A unique password for each application defined in Aruba Central. For details on defining an application and copying the client secret, see https://developer.arubanetworks.com/aruba-central/docs/api-gateway-creating-application-token | ************ |
Verify SSL. | For future use. | N/A |
Source Documentation
Creating Credentials
Contact your Lucidum Sales Representative for help with creating credentials.
For details on creating user accounts, see:
https://www.arubanetworks.com/techdocs/central/latest/content/nms/user-mgmt/cfg-user-roles.htm#User
For older systems, you can view Configuring System Users in https://www.arubanetworks.com/techdocs/central/2.5.3/content/pdfs/user-guide.pdf
For details on defining an application and copying the client ID and client secret, see
https://developer.arubanetworks.com/aruba-central/docs/api-gateway-creating-application-token
For older systems, you can view the section on Creating Application and Token in https://www.arubanetworks.com/techdocs/central/2.5.4/content/pdfs/central/api-reference-guide.pdf
Required Permissions
The user account used for the Aruba Central connector must meet the following requirements:
system user
access to the Network Operations application
readwrite access
You can also use the predefined Aruba Central view edit Role.
Contact your Lucidum Sales Representative for help with permissions.