Onboarding Aruba CX VSF Stack to Aruba Central

To onboard an Aruba CX VSF stack to Aruba Central, complete the following procedure:

1. Setup the switch stack using the Aruba CX mobile application or the CLI.

This step must be performed outside Aruba Central.

For information , see ArubaOS-CX VSF Best Practices. Although this document is created for Aruba CX 6300 switches, it is also applicable to Aruba 6200 switches.

2. Add and subscribe the commander and standby members in the Aruba CX stack to Aruba Central. The other members are optional to be added to Aruba Central.

For information on adding and subscribing devices, see Onboarding Devices and Managing Subscriptions.

3. Create a template group for the Aruba CX VSF stack in Aruba Central. See Provisioning Devices Using Configuration Templates.

4. Assign the stack members to the template group from any of the following pages:

Device Inventory page in Account Home under Global Settings.

Groups page under Maintain > Organization in the Network Operations app.

5. Create a configuration template in the template group for the Aruba CX VSF stack.

Copy the details of the show running config command of the Aruba CX VSF stack from the commander and paste it in the template. Ensure to update the password in plaintext.

See Creating a Template Group.