Aruba ClearPass
Aruba ClearPass
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What is Aruba ClearPass?
Aruba ClearPass is network access control (NAC) technology from HPE company Aruba Networks. Aruba acquired Avenda and its eTips NAC in 2011.
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What is Aruba ClearPass?
Aruba ClearPass is network access control (NAC) technology from HPE company Aruba Networks. Aruba acquired Avenda and its eTips NAC in 2011.
What is Aruba ClearPass's best feature?
Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 8.8.
Who uses Aruba ClearPass?
The most common users of Aruba ClearPass are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees) and the Education Management industry.
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May 04, 2022
Best NAC product for Wired and Wireless Networks
We use the product as RADIUS and TACACS in our institution's wired and wireless networks. We also use it to manage the wireless network for our guests coming from outside and the BYOD network we use for the institution personnel. We control the users coming with dot1x in the wired network via AD and assign VLANs according to the relevant department information. In the wireless network, users with client certificates are included in the network after the control over AD. We also have Tacacs access control with control over AD for our network devices (Router, L2 Switch and L3 switches).
- Seamless integration with AD
- Hierarchical rule writing and role definition
- Seamless operation with network devices of different brands
- SMS usage option for network authorization
- A practical HA working logic
- The user interface is extremely useless. For example, when you write Enforcement, in order to edit a rule above, you need to select the rule above and click the edit button below. In other words, its cosmetic properties should be improved.
- The tutorials are good but not very detailed, so you won't find everything you're looking for. That's why you need to get training from a professional trainer. Further elaboration of training documents is required.
September 08, 2020
Aruba Clearpass
This is the network access control system used for the organization. This system allows several different types of devices to easily connect to the network and get the proper access required for that individual or appliance. This solves a security issue that many organizations may face, properly restricting users or devices to only the resources they need.
- Network access control
- Guest network access
- Network segmentation
- More intuitive upgrade process.
- Add in-service software upgrades.
- Use common syntax across the various systems within Clearpass. For instance, monitoring view and guest view use different syntax's.
June 07, 2020
ClearPass Integration in a University Environment
Clearpass is being used as our primary authentication platform for our university of around 4000 students and 1000 staff. It provides TACACS for management and radius services for 802.1X authentication for wireless and wired infrastructure. Additionally, we use the product for registering and managing guest wireless users and whitelisting IoT devices via a self-service portal that has Azure AD integration. These self-service options help reduce management overhead for IT staff and make the experience much more convenient for students.
- Heavily extensible logic that can solve a myriad of authentication and authorization scenarios.
- Extensive logging for troubleshooting services and device connections
- Standards based and compatible with nearly any device capable of 802.1X.
- Good user base for support and solutions.
- Policy manager and guest sections of ClearPass are disjointed, and where they overlap isn't readily apparent.
- Some changes require a full service restart which can take 5 to 10 minutes.
- Documentation is a bit dense and hard to navigate.
March 12, 2020
Aruba ClearPass delivers
Aruba ClearPass is being used across the organization; we use it for authenticating wireless devices and assigning users to appropriate VLANs by membership in AD security groups. It is used by more than 14000 users daily, with a mix of devices from iPads to Chromebooks to Windows PCs and laptops, with some personal cell phones (more than 3000 daily) mixed in.
- It does a great job of authenticating users and eliminating the need for us to run multiple SSIDs to “manually” separate users.
- Integrates well with AD to support assigning users to segments based on security group membership
- It integrates well with our Aruba controller environment
- We’d like to see some logic being applied to the VLAN assignment so that we could do it based on more than one condition - for example, membership in a security group and operating system.
December 07, 2019
Best NAC server out there at the moment, but needs improvement in training materials and support
ClearPass is used as a NAC and access server for wireless connectivity, and we are planning to use it for wired NAC in the future. It is used for wireless employee authentication with EAP-TLS, as well as wireless guest access with self-registration. It addresses wireless authentication problem in a reliable and scalable manner.
- Wireless authentication with EAP-TLS.
- Wireless guest access with self-registration.
- Interfacing with Aruba wireless controllers.
- Very good logging/troubleshooting.
- Wired NAC with non-Aruba switches is clunky and hard.
- Configuration is not intuitive.
- Training materials online are practically nonexistent.
- Even when given on official training courses, training materials are terrible.
ClearPass is being used company-wide. Every person's device is authenticated through ClearPass and depending on what department they are they are put into a VLAN that gives them access to the systems they need. I love that ClearPass can grant or deny access to certain systems based on the user because it saves time not having to build that manually. We also use ClearPass to create guest accounts for visitors that come to our campus. These guest accounts grant access to the internet but not to our internal systems. ClearPass solves the problem of having multiple departments with different needs and being able to grant them access to what they need while keeping the network secure. ClearPass allows us to use 802.1x so we can put a base config on our network devices and not have to configure each port specific to each person or device.
- You can use ClearPass authenticate using wired and wireless network devices. This is helpful that you don't have to have multiple systems to accomplish this.
- Because devices can have different purposes Clearpass can configure groups that will specify what access they have. You can use parameters such as vendor or mac address so clearpass know what group to push them to.
- It is very easy to view device logs. This is really helpful to troubleshoot auth issues. Once you find the device Clearpass provides more than enough info to know what the issue is and to fix it.
- Getting data out of ClearPass is difficult. You can get some with SNMP but he API is lacking. There is only a limited amount of info that you can get from it. Even some data that shows up in ClearPass Insight is not available to import into a 3rd party application.
- In the past, if you have hardware/software issues you could troubleshoot them yourself through the CLI in a Linux type interface but now they have locked everything down and it makes troubleshooting difficult. You have to rely on them for everything. As a person who likes to understand the ins and outs of the systems I manage it is somewhat frustrating.
- Steep learning curve, although support can assist and their forums like airheads can be helpful. This is a complex system and can take a while to grasp how everything works and integrates.
October 23, 2019
Simplifies day-to-day operations
We currently use Aruba ClearPass across the entire company. We have it tied to our Active Directory for 802.1x authentication on both the wired and wireless networks. When employees connect to the network, they are prompted for their credentials and are put in the proper VLAN according to the groups they belong to in Active Directory.
- Granularity in access.
- Multiple sources of authentication.
- Manage guest and defined users with the same tool.
- Nested configurations can get tiresome and hard to follow.
- More robust reporting.
- Add the ability to search MAC addresses including colons and periods.