Fast tracking network configuration with Aruba Solution Exchange (ASE) configuration templates

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Aruba Solution Exchange (ASE)Choh Kok – Technical LeadRavi Mehra – Full Stack Developer

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Agenda

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• Introduction to ASE • Feature Demonstration• Live Demo • Contributing • Q&A

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Introduction to ASE

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What is Aruba Solution Exchange?

– Visit ASE at https://ase.arubanetworks.com/

– Intelligent configuration wizards

– It’s free! Available to all customers, partners, and Airheads community users for free

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ASE Workflow

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Configuration Pain Points

– User guides are long and often don’t contain thorough configuration samples.

– Tech notes and VRDs must be translated to match your network topology. Configuration options and values are static.

– Tech notes expect a certain level of knowledge.

– User missing a “hidden” configuration step.

– KB articles, white papers, and tech notes get outdated.

– Configuration applied from going through a tech note can not be reverted. There are no “undo” steps.

– Limited community involvement.

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ASE Benefits

– Configuration dynamically generated.

– Holistic configuration spanning multiple products.

– Less user error stemming from less user typing.

– Lab validated configuration.

– Standardized solution presentation.

– Flexible platform to design and program any solution.

– Community supported – idea submission, solution creation, modification, and compatibility feedback.

– Solution versioning and notification system.

– Recognition for contributors.

– Email generated configuration.

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Feature Demonstration

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Live Solution Walkthrough

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Contributing

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Submit Ideas

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Solution Creation and Modification

– Every solution can be modified by customers, partners, and internal employees.

– All submissions for new solutions or modified solutions will be reviewed before being approved.

– Solution changes are tracked.

– Accepted submissions will add you to the list of contributors.

– Email approved changes to users followed the solution.

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How to create a solution?

– Tutorials available at https://ase.arubanetworks.com/docs

– Learn configuration syntax

– View Source of existing solutions

– Copy configuration from similar solutions or from your running configuration.

– Verify configuration

– Submit!

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Best Practices

– Use Live Preview to preview your solution before submitting for approval.

– Use all lower case for variable name.

– Use underscore as separator variable name.– Example: ip_address

– Use validator to validate user input.

– Use placeholder or help text to guide user in entering the correct value.

– Use rich text if contain graphical instructions.

– Use (#nonconfigvar #) tag to,– Change the order of the questions.– Get user input for controlling the flow of codes block.

– Use annotations to illustrate the GUI based device configuration.

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Sample Solution

– Let’s start kicking the tire by creating a simple calculator in ASE – https://ase.arubanetworks.com/solutions/id/122

– Feel free to modify the solution and submit for approval.

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Feature Roadmap

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Planned Features

– More solutions!

– Private space for customers, departments, or partners.

– Ability to save configuration for future retrieval.

– Better integration with AirHeads Community.

– Expand config syntax tags to support more use cases.

– Better organization and presentation of existing solutions.

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Q&A

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