Aruba ClearPass

Aruba ClearPass

Aruba ClearPass

43 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Aruba ClearPass	Score 8.3 out of 10	N/A	Aruba ClearPass is network access control (NAC) technology from HPE company Aruba Networks. Aruba acquired Avenda and its eTips NAC in 2011.	N/A

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	Aruba ClearPass
Considered Both Products	Aruba ClearPass Verified User Administrator Chose Aruba ClearPass Much easier to use, FortiNAC which used to be owned by Bradford was difficult to use. Unintuitive menus made it difficult to use and support was almost nonexistent. It may be different now, but we haven't looked back since using Clearpass. Licensing and support costs aren't bad … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Aruba ClearPass From my experience, ClearPass has been the best NAC server of all I've seen. Even though configuration is somewhat hard and it's hard to get training, once you learn how to configure it it works very well. The policies are very granular and scalable and the interface is a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Aruba ClearPass Personally. I haven't used other NAC solutions. There are a few I've researched, but have stayed with Clearpass as my solution based on the features and use case for my organization. One large reason for staying with Clearpass is being an Aruba wireless network customer. Having … Incentivized Helpful? Don Ringelestein Director of Technology/CTO Chose Aruba ClearPass We only looked at Aruba ClearPass based on the prior implementation of the HP/Aruba switching/routing/wireless environment. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Aruba ClearPass ClearPass by far is a more versatile system it seems that it has more features and can configure how you want it. Cisco ISE is extremely complicated to deploy where I felt that ClearPass was more straight forward and user-friendly. Clearpass does what Cisco ISE can do and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Aruba ClearPass I have not reviewed any alternatives to ClearPass. Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Network devices Pro Wireless network Pro Security policies
Top Cons	Minus Full service Minus Software upgrades Minus Training materials

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User Ratings
	Aruba ClearPass
Likelihood to Recommend	9.7 (8 ratings)
Usability	7.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	9.1 (6 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Aruba ClearPass
Likelihood to Recommend	Hewlett Packard Enterprise We have quite a few visitors to our campus and we don't want to have a set PSK for the wireless so we have configured a guest network where visitors can create an account and gain access to the internet and we don't have to "manage" it since the accounts will expire after a certain time. We have RF scanners in our warehouses and we want them to be allowed on the network and be put into its own VLAN. ClearPass can do this flawlessly by keying off of the MAC address when it comes online and putting it into the correct VLAN. This makes it so we don't have to add each device individually to the system. The only time ClearPass would not be appropriate is in a small deployment where the cost to value wouldn't make sense. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Hewlett Packard Enterprise wide range of compatible devices have an easy-to-understand and hierarchical rule-writing structure easy-to-use interface and extensive documentation seamless MS AD integration Mehmet Fatih Onal Technical Architect Read full review
Cons	Hewlett Packard Enterprise The user interface is outdated Support is not as responsive as it used to be I'd like to be able to build dashboards Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Hewlett Packard Enterprise Aruba Clearpass is straight forward in terms of day to day use for monitoring and basic user connectivity issues. The system is very robust on the back end, therefore some larger configuration changes may not be the most intuitive. System upgrades and license management are not the most intuitive either. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Hewlett Packard Enterprise We had some issues with ClearPass integration with AirGroup on Aruba Controller Clusters. Basically, it was tough to get coordinated between the controller support and the ClearPass support. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Hewlett Packard Enterprise From my experience, ClearPass has been the best NAC server of all I've seen. Even though configuration is somewhat hard and it's hard to get training, once you learn how to configure it it works very well. The policies are very granular and scalable and the interface is a well-done web GUI that does not need any extra plugins installed, as some of Cisco's product require. There are many more options than with FortiNAC, and many more integration options. Also, troubleshooting and logging is good. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Hewlett Packard Enterprise It has simplified our SSID management It has made it very easy for us to segment our network based on security groups It was relatively easy to implement with the support of a VAR Incentivized Don Ringelestein Director of Technology/CTO Read full review
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