7/7/2021 What's New

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The following features and enhancements are now available in Aruba Central:

Aruba Central Licensing

In this release, Aruba introduces a uniform licensing model that impacts all the devices and services that
are managed in Aruba Central. The new 1, 3, 5, 7, and 10 year licensing model moves away from the
legacy concept of Device Management and Service Management tokens. Instead, the licensing model
offers Foundation and Advanced licenses for APs, switches, and SD-Branch gateways. This licensing
model applies both to the Standard Enterprise mode and the Managed Service Provider (MSP) mode.

Switches:
Foundation—This license provides all features included in the legacy Device Management tokens
and some additional features that were available as value added services for APs and switches in
the earlier licensing model.

Aruba Central does not support Switch Advanced License.

Access Points (APs):

Foundation—This license provides all features included in the legacy Device-Management tokens
and some additional features that were available as value added services for APs and switches in
the earlier licensing model.
Advanced—This license provides all features of a Foundation License, with additional features
related to AI Insights and WLAN services.

Gateways:
Foundation—This license provides all features included in the legacy Device Management tokens
and some additional features that were available as value added services for gateways in the earlier
licensing model. The features are supported based on SD-Branch and WLAN gateways.
Foundation Base—This license provides all features included in the Foundation License. However,
this license can support only up to 75 client devices per branch.
Foundation with Security—This license provides all features included in the legacy Device
Management tokens and some additional security features that were available as value added
services for gateways in the earlier licensing model.
Foundation Base with Security—This license provides all features included in the Foundation with
Security License. However, this license can support only up to 75 client devices per branch.
Advanced—This license provides all features of a Foundation License, with additional features
related to SaaS Express and AI Insights.

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Advanced with Security—This license provides all features of an Advanced License, with additional
security features related IPS and IDS, security dashboard, and anti-malware.
Virtual Gateway (VGW) License—This license is available for AWS, Azure, and ESXi platforms
and is licensed based on the bandwidth required. The following license types are available for VGW:
VGW-500M, VGW-2G, and VGW-4G.

The licenses for APs, switches, and gateways cannot be used interchangeably. For example, you cannot use
an AP Foundation License on a gateway. Similarly, if you have an Aruba 25xx Switch but the license available is
for an Aruba 29xx Switch, the Aruba 29xx Switch license cannot be applied to the Aruba 25xx Switch.

Aruba Central administrators can either download an evaluation key, purchase a new license key or convert
a legacy Device Management token into a Foundation license key for an AP, gateway, or switch. To use
Aruba Central for managing, profiling, analyzing, and monitoring your devices, you must ensure that you
have a valid license key and that the license key is listed in the Account Home > Global Settings > Key
Management page.
After adding a license key, you can assign licenses to different devices. For license assignment to devices,
you can either use the Auto-Assign Licenses option or manually assign licenses from the License
Assignment page.
To know more about the different tiers of licenses available for the devices and the services packaged with
each licensing tier, see Overview of Aruba Central Foundation and Advanced Licenses.

Aruba Central Licensing in Standard Enterprise Mode

Aruba Central Licensing in MSP Mode

Supported Devices
AOS-Switch and AOS-CX

Access Points

Gateways

Configuration Enhancements
AOS-CX Configuration

AOS-Switch Configuration

Configuration Audit

Monitoring Enhancements
AI Insights

Third-Party, Unmanaged, and Unreachable Devices in the Topology View

Access Point Monitoring

Switch Monitoring

Monitoring Remote Clients

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