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  • 1.  Central - Wired Clients missing Hostnames and IPs

    Posted Jan 24, 2025 07:25 AM

    Hi all,

    I'm fairly new to Central for wired as we've been using it only for Wireless previously but we've recently added in some 8360's and 10000 series switches

    We have a large number of VMWare Servers hosted on the 10000 series and when looking at the Client tracker they are only populated by MAC Address, is it possible to get Aruba Central visibility of their IP addresses and hostnames? I've enabled client-insight on them but that doesn't seem to have changed much

    My rough understanding of the documentation I've found is that because they are static and don't go through a DHCP process, it wont work?

    Thanks!



  • 2.  RE: Central - Wired Clients missing Hostnames and IPs

    Posted Feb 24, 2025 09:24 AM

    Client tracker is a feature for the campus access layer. 

    For datacenter, we are working on a VMware integration from New Central to pull information. Please check the New Central documentation portal. https://arubanetworking.hpe.com/techdocs/new-central/content/extns/vsphere/vsph-intro.htm

    Please reach out to your HPE Aruba account team for more information. 



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    Willem Bargeman
    Systems Engineer Aruba
    ACEX #125
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  • 3.  RE: Central - Wired Clients missing Hostnames and IPs

    Posted Feb 25, 2025 01:16 AM

    What is the difference between Client Tracker and Client Insights?




  • 4.  RE: Central - Wired Clients missing Hostnames and IPs

    Posted Feb 25, 2025 01:50 AM

    Client Tracker is a switch feature to keep a client 'alive' and collets input data for Client Insight. 

    Client Insight collects profiling and onboarding information that will be send to Central for client related info.



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    Willem Bargeman
    Systems Engineer Aruba
    ACEX #125
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  • 5.  RE: Central - Wired Clients missing Hostnames and IPs

    Posted Feb 25, 2025 01:55 AM

    Are there any other things that could be switched on to collect info about port clients or apps etc?




  • 6.  RE: Central - Wired Clients missing Hostnames and IPs

    Posted Feb 25, 2025 02:07 AM

    On the 6300/6400 series there is support for Application Visibility. Please also check New Central help. For Client-Insight related configuration please check this page. 

    Keep in mind that Application Visibility and Client Tracker / Client Insight are access related features. This is not developed for datacenter purposes. 

    As I mentioned before, for VMware with have an integration available to collect VM related info and display this in New Central



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    Willem Bargeman
    Systems Engineer Aruba
    ACEX #125
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