Aruba ClearPass Configuration (CPC)

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Course Overview

The 5-day Aruba ClearPass Configuration course prepares participants with foundational skills in Network Access Control using the ClearPass product portfolio. The course includes both instructional modules and labs to teach participants about the major features in the ClearPass portfolio. Participants learn how to setup ClearPass as an AAA server and configure the Policy Manager, Guest, OnGuard and Onboard feature sets. In addition, the course covers integration with external Active Directory servers, monitoring and reporting, as well as deployment best practices. The student gains insight into configuring authentication with ClearPass on both wired and wireless networks.

Who Should Attend

Ideal candidates include network professionals who need to build foundational knowledge of the ClearPass product portfolio.

Course Objectives

    • Implement a ClearPass network access solution
    • Design and apply effective services and enforcement in ClearPass
    • Troubleshoot a ClearPass solution

Course Outline

1 - Introduction to ClearPass

  • BYOD
  • High level overview
  • Posture and profiling
  • Guest and Onboard

2 - AAA

  • Policy service rules
  • Authentication, authorization and roles
  • Enforcement policy and profiles

3 - External Devices

  • Network access devices
  • Messaging services
  • External context servers

4 - Endpoint Profiling

  • Introduction to profiling
  • Profiling collectors

5 - External Collectors and Profilers

  • Roles and enforcement
  • Services
  • Enforcing ClearPass roles

6 - Configuring Services

  • Service selection rules
  • Creating services

7 - Configuring Web Services

  • Content Manager
  • Skins
  • Web page editor

8 - Guest Authentication

  • Captive portal process
  • Web logins
  • Guest accounts
  • Guest access with MAC authentication

9 - Guest Access Self-Registration

  • Self-registration experience
  • Configuring self-registration
  • Self-registration process

10 - Wired Authentication

  • Wired access
  • Wired enforcement
  • Profiling on wired ports

11 - Downloadable User Roles (DUR)

  • Requirements for DUR
  • DUR enforcement profiles

12 - Dynamic Segmentation

  • What is dynamic segmentation?
  • How it works
  • Configuring dynamic segmentation

13 - OnGuard Configuration

  • Postures and posture policies
  • OnGuard aAgent
  • Monitoring OnGuard

14 - OnGuard in Enforcement

  • OnGuard workflow
  • OnGuard enforcement

15 - Onboard Provisioning

  • Configuring certificate authorities
  • Portal setup
  • Configuring services

16 - Onboard Administration

  • Managing certificates
  • Managing users and devices
  • Certificate revocation and OCSP

17 - Administrative Operations

  • Licenses
  • Certificates
  • Updates and upgrades
  • Gathering logs

18 - ClearPass Cluster

  • Cluster structure
  • Policy Manager zones
  • High availability

19 - Administrative Access

  • Admin access to NADs
  • Admin access to Policy Manager
  • Guest operator logins

20 - Insight Reports

  • Alerts
  • Reports
  • Administration

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Class Dates & Times

Class times are listed Eastern time

This is a 5-day class

Price : $4,000.00

NERCOMP Price : $3,800.00

Available Class Dates

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Register 01/13/2025 10:00AM - 6:00PM Online VILT
Register 02/24/2025 10:00AM - 6:00PM Online VILT
Register 03/17/2025 11:00AM - 7:00PM Online VILT