Aruba – usefull commands

I put here some commands I used to need while dealing with Aruba network devices, registered within Aruba Central.

Aruba Central state

# Check Aruba state
show aruba-central

# Disabling/enabling Aruba Central might be handy to know
aruba-central disable
aruba-central enable

aruba-central support mode disable

Provisioning

# Check provision state
show activate provision

# Force activation
activate provision force

If you got an SSL or whatever issue, you might want to check the firmware version.

Update the firmware on a switch

activate software-update check
activate software-update update

# If you had a provision error before, then run this after the reboot:
activate provision

Stack commands

# Show Stack details
show vsf

# Show details
show vsf details

# Show link between
show vsf link

# If you need to remove a member, you can use that. Be carrefull though, it will be removed from the Aruba Central group as well
vsf member 2 remove

Devices information about where they are connected

show port-access clients

To see access points, you can use the LLDP protocol or the device profile command:

show lldp info remote-device
show device-profile status

Disable an interface from the switch console

configure t
erminal
# To avoid having the switch not in sync
aruba-central support-mode enable
interface ethernet x/x 
disable
enable
aruba-central support-mode disable