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  • 1.  Access Point - Clearpass - Grafana

    Posted Sep 11, 2025 11:40 AM

    In our environment, we are using ClearPass and APs managed through Aruba Central, along with Cisco WLC. Currently, active sessions are being monitored via Grafana. I would like to understand how the integration between Grafana and ClearPass has been set up, as the person who originally configured it has left the organization.Where I can see the configuration in clearpass 



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  • 2.  RE: Access Point - Clearpass - Grafana

    Posted Sep 11, 2025 12:18 PM

    Hello,

    Could you share which of the following options your colleague who set it up has enabled?
     
    1-Syslog
    2-PostgreSQL
    3-REST API
     
    The clearest way to quickly find which management is being used is to look under Grafana > settings > data sources.
     
    On the ClearPass side, you can find it under Administration > External Servers > Syslog Targets.
     
    If the definitions are set up to be syslog servers, they may have been configured with the following logic:
     
    The client connects to the network > Cisco WLC (or Aruba AP) sends RADIUS Auth + Accounting (Start / Interim-Update / Stop) packets to ClearPass.
     
    ClearPass logs these events in Access Tracker.
     
    ClearPass sends the text of these events as syslog to a collector (Elasticsearch, etc.) according to the Log Export / Syslog Target definitions.
    Grafana makes that collector a Data Source and generates panels/metrics from the logs.
     
    In other words, Grafana does not read directly from ClearPass; it reads through the syslog collector in between.
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  • 3.  RE: Access Point - Clearpass - Grafana

    Posted Sep 12, 2025 04:33 AM

    According to the document, the data is retrieved from the ClearPass Insight API. Could you please clarify how it has been configured for API ?

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  • 4.  RE: Access Point - Clearpass - Grafana

    Posted Sep 13, 2025 04:41 PM

    Merhaba Mithran,

    https://developer.arubanetworks.com/cppm/docs/http-tabanlı-apis

    Bu belge API hakkında detaylı ve faydalı bilgiler içeriyor.
    Umarım faydalı olur.

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