Account Home Page

Aruba Central includes a unified network operations and assurance platform and an intelligent, machine learning based solution for device discovery, profiling and visibility. Each of these solutions work individually and collectively to support Aruba’s APs, Switches, and Controllers. From the Account Home page, you can manage network inventory, APIsApplication Programming Interface. Refers to a set of functions, procedures, protocols, and tools that enable users to build application software., user access and so on. Under Global Settings, you have the following tiles:

Users and Roles—Aruba Central users can be broadly categorized as system and external users. A role refers to a logical entity used for determining user access to devices and application services in Aruba Central. Users are always tagged to roles that govern the level of user access to the Aruba Central applications and services. For more information on users and roles, see Configuring Users and Roles.

Key Management—The Key Management menu option in the Account Home page allows you to view and track subscriptions key.

Device Inventory—In Aruba Central, you can add devices either in the online or offline mode.

Subscription Assignment—Aruba Central supports the following types of subscriptions, Device subscription and Service subscription.

Audit Trail—This page shows the total number logs generated for all device management, configuration, and user management events triggered in Aruba Central. For more information, see Audit Trail.

Authentication—The Single Sign On (SSOSingle Sign-On. SSO is an access-control property that allows the users to log in once to access multiple related, but independent applications or systems to which they have privileges. The process authenticates the user across all allowed resources during their session, eliminating additional login prompts.) solution simplifies user management by allowing users to access multiple applications and services with a single set of login credentials. If the applications services are offered by different vendors, IT administrators can use the SAMLSecurity Assertion Markup Language. SAML is an XML-based framework for communicating user authentication, entitlement, and attribute information. SAML enables single sign-on by allowing users to authenticate at an identity provider and then access service providers without additional authentication. authentication and authorization framework to provide a seamless login experience for their users. For more information, see SAML SSO.

API Gateway—Aruba Central supports a robust set of RESTRepresentational State Transfer. REST is a simple and stateless architecture that the web services use for providing interoperability between computer systems on the Internet. In a RESTful web service, requests made to the URI of a resource will elicit a response that may be in XML, HTML, JSON or some other defined format. APIs to enable users to build custom applications and integrate the APIs with their applications. The Aruba Central API framework uses OAuthOpen Standard for Authorization. OAuth is a token-based authorization standard that allows websites or third-party applications to access user information, without exposing the user credentials. protocol to authenticate and authorize third-party applications, and allows them to obtain secure and limited access to an Aruba Central service. For more information on APIs, refer to the API Reference Guide.

Webhooks—Contains the Streaming API and the Webhooks tabs. Streaming APIs allow customers to subscribe to a select set of services instead of polling the NB API to get an aggregated state or statistics of the events. With streaming API, the customers can write value-added applications based on the aggregated context. For more information on streaming APIs, refer to the API Reference Guide.

This tile also contains the Webhook tab. An application can provide real-time information or notifications to other applications using the Webhook service. You can access the Webhook service through the Account Home or API Gateway. Using the Webhook service, you can list, add, or delete Webhooks; get Webhook token; refresh Webhook token; update Webhook settings; do Webhook settings for a specific item; and test for Webhook notification. For more information on webhooks, refer to the API Reference Guide.

System Management—This page shows the overall status and performance of the Aruba Central system. For more information, see Viewing System Management in the Account Homes Page.