AI Insights

Aruba AI Insights delivers actionable guidance for improving network performance and the quality of your users’ mobile experience via continuous monitoring, analysis, and benchmarking. Using powerful machine learning algorithms and Aruba’s extensive wireless expertise, AI Insights arms IT organizations with the intelligence needed to proactively optimize how data, voice, and video applications perform across your entire campus – including local and remote locations.

Smart analytics automate the complex task of identifying where potential problems exist. AI Insights continuously monitors the network and makes specific recommendations that can improve how the network performs. By proactively fixing potential issues, IT can stop the reactive cycle. Help desk calls are reduced, troubleshooting and problem resolution are minimized, and the IT staff is freed up for more strategic work.

AI Insights is supported on a 5-node cluster and 7-node cluster.

• 5- node cluster which supports 16,000 devices and 160000 clients
• 7-node cluster which supports 30,000 devices and 300000 clients

AI Insights support the following features in Aruba Central (on-premises) deployment:

• Wi-Fi Connectivity Dashboard - The Wi-Fi Connectivity page displays an overall view of the connection details for all clients that are connected to or tried to connect to each connection phase.
• WLAN Connectivity Insights - Insights can be accessed from different contexts such as Global, Site, Clients, and Device. The following four types of AI Insights are supported in Aruba Central (on-premises):
  • DHCPDynamic Host Configuration Protocol. A network protocol that enables a server to automatically assign an IP address to an IP-enabled device from a defined range of numbers configured for a given network.  Connection Failures
  • MACMedia Access Control. A MAC address is a unique identifier assigned to network interfaces for communications on a network. Authentication Failures
  • Wi-FiWi-Fi is a technology that allows electronic devices to connect to a WLAN network, mainly using the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz radio bands. Wi-Fi can apply to products that use any 802.11 standard. security key-exchange failures
  • 802.1x authentication Failures
  • Wi-Fi Association Failures
  • Captive PortalA captive portal is a web page that allows the users to authenticate and sign in before connecting to a public-access network. Captive portals are typically used by business centers, airports, hotel lobbies, coffee shops, and other venues that offer free Wi-Fi hotspots for the guest users. Authentication Failures
• WLAN Connectivity Alerts - Aruba Central (on-premises) allows you to configure and enable connectivity alerts to generate and display alerts when DNSDomain Name System. A DNS server functions as a phone book for the intranet and Internet users. It converts human-readable computer host names into IP addresses and IP addresses into host names. It stores several records for a domain name such as an address 'A' record, name server (NS), and mail exchanger (MX) records. The Address 'A' record is the most important record that is stored in a DNS server, because it provides the required IP address for a network peripheral or element. delays, DHCP delays, authentication delays, and association failures are detected.
• Failed Wireless Client Events or Reasons - AI Insights helps populate the last seen time stamp, failure stage, and failure reason for a failed client. This information is communicated to the Aruba Central (On-premises) server and is displayed in the Failed clients list in Global > Clients > Failed Clients. Also, if an AI insight is associated with a failed client, the AI insight number is listed in the table and can be used to open the insight and troubleshoot the client issues.