Users Guide

Feature Description
Enabling PortFast A new parameter is introduced to enable PortFast/PortFast on Trunk to
reduce the time taken for wired clients connected to an AP to detect the
link before they send data traffic.
HP Platform interoperability HP TPM based switches can now inter-operate with the Dell controllers
and create the IKE / IPSec tunnels.
IKE fragmentation ArubaOS supports the functionality where the non- Aruba devices can
fragment the large IKE_AUTH packets using the standards described in
the RFC 7383 – Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2)
message fragmentation when the Aruba device acts as a responder and
not as an initiator.
Interference Metrics This enhancement is introduced to resolve issues that occur with
distributed channel/power algorithm, random channel assignment, and
reduction in interference channel.
IPClassification Based
Firewall
The IP-Classification Based Firewall has been introduced to block traffic
sent or received from those IP addresses classified as malicious. It also
helps in identifying the geographical location of the malicious IP address.
Monitoring Bandwidth Usage This features assists in monitoring bandwidth usage by clients/hosts
with IPv6 addresses, over radius protocol. This information is used for
billing purpose.
Netdestination for AAAA
Records
This features allows Captive Portal whitelist to support IPv6 addresses
for netdestination.
NTPStandalone This feature enables a Dell controller to act as an NTP server so that the
devices that do not have access to internet can synchronize their clocks.
Recording Consolidated AP-
Provisioned Information
Starting from ArubaOS 6.5.0.0, the controller stores the consolidated AP-
provisioned information for all APs connected to the controller in a .txt
file. This information helps troubleshoot any AP that does not come UP
after an upgrade from ArubaOS 6.5.0.0 to a later ArubaOS version.
Remote Telnet or SSH Session
from the Controller
Starting from ArubaOS 6.5.0.0, an administrator can initiate a remote
telnet or SSH session from the controller to a remote host. The host can
be a controller or a non-Dell host.
Secondary Master The secondary master controller feature in ArubaOS 6.5.0.0 provides
seamless connectivity by allowing an access point to terminate on a
secondary master controller in the event of the master controller failing.
Smart Configuration Starting from ArubaOS 6.5.0.0, the smart config which is used to
manage branch controllers has been enhanced to allow a vlan to get an
IP address using DHCP. To configure the vlan the dhcp-client and dhcp-
pool parameters are introduced in the User VLANs table.
Table 2: New Features in ArubaOS 6.5.0.0
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