ARUBA AUTHORIZED PARTNER CLOUD MANAGEMENT

Aruba Central India

AI-Powered Cloud Network Management

Aruba Central is a cloud-native, AI-powered network management platform that unifies management of Aruba switches, wireless APs, SD-WAN gateways, and remote access in a single SaaS dashboard. Ogma Consulting licenses, deploys, and trains organizations on Aruba Central across India.

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SaaS
No on-prem controller
AI-Ops
Root-cause in seconds
ZTP
Zero-touch provisioning
REST
Full API + webhooks
Wired + Wireless
CX switches + APs unified
SD-WAN / SD-Branch
EdgeConnect managed
NetInsight AI
Proactive anomaly detection
Compliance
Config drift detection

Aruba Central Platform Capabilities

What you get in a single cloud management subscription

Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP)

Pre-configure device templates in Central. When a new CX switch or AP powers on and reaches the internet, Central automatically applies the correct group configuration — no engineer needs to be on-site. Scales to thousands of devices across India without manual touch.

AI Insights — NetInsight

Aruba's AI/ML engine (NetInsight) continuously analyzes client connectivity events — associations, DHCP, DNS, and authentication — and identifies which failure stage is causing issues (e.g., RADIUS timeout vs channel congestion vs DHCP starvation). Root cause shown in the dashboard before users call the helpdesk.

Config Compliance & Drift

Central continuously compares running config of all switches and APs against defined templates. Any unauthorized or accidental change (config drift) is detected and flagged in real-time. One-click restore to compliant baseline — critical for ISO 27001 and PCI DSS audits.

Multi-Tenant Architecture

Central supports multi-tenant management — ideal for Ogma's managed service offering. Each customer has an isolated tenant; Ogma's NOC team manages all customers from a single Central instance with role-based access per tenant. Customers get read-only or delegated access to their own view.

REST API & Webhooks

Every Central operation is exposed via a documented REST API — device onboarding, config push, alert retrieval, topology queries. Webhooks push real-time alerts to ITSM tools (ServiceNow, Freshservice). Ogma integrates Central with customer ITSM for automatic incident creation on link failures.

Network Health Dashboards

Role-based dashboards for NOC, helpdesk, and management. Live heatmaps of AP coverage, per-SSID client density, WAN link utilization trends, switch port utilization, PoE budget consumption — all with 90-day historical trending.

Aruba Central Licensing Tiers

Per-device per-year subscription — choose the right tier

Feature Foundation
(Base)		 Advanced
(Recommended)		 Advanced + Security
(Full Stack)
Device types APs + CX Switches APs + CX + SD-WAN GWs APs + CX + SD-WAN + Remote
Configuration & ZTP Yes Yes Yes
AI Insights (NetInsight) Basic Full — root-cause AI Full — root-cause AI
Config Compliance No Yes Yes
Location Services No Yes Yes
Security dashboard No Partial Full — IDS + AIOps Security
REST API Yes Yes Yes
Multi-tenant support No Yes Yes
India pricing (per AP/yr) Quoted on request Quoted on request Quoted on request

* Switch and gateway licensing has separate per-device pricing. Ogma provides bundled quotes. Prices are indicative — official pricing on request.

Aruba Central vs Traditional NMS

Why Indian enterprises move from on-prem NMS to cloud management

Factor Traditional NMS
(SolarWinds, PRTG, Cacti)		 Aruba Central
Deployment On-prem server, patching, maintenance SaaS — no server to manage
Visibility SNMP polling — 5-minute gaps Streaming telemetry — real-time
Root-cause analysis Manual log correlation AI engine — automatic + NLP-assisted
ZTP capability No — manual TFTP/DHCP option 43 setup Native — device onboards from Central
Configuration management Backup/restore only Template push + compliance drift detection
SD-WAN / SD-Branch Not supported Native EdgeConnect management
Scaling NMS server capacity limits Auto-scale SaaS — 100 to 100,000 devices
India opex License + VM infra + admin FTE Per-device SaaS subscription — predictable

Why Choose Ogma for Aruba Central in India?

Authorized Licensing Partner

Ogma is an authorized Aruba HPE partner for Central licensing in India. We procure Foundation, Advanced, and Security subscriptions through official HPE channels — ensuring legitimate licenses and support entitlement.

Onboarding & Training

Ogma manages the full Aruba Central onboarding — tenant setup, device groups, configuration templates, ZTP workflows, and AI Insights configuration. We train your NOC and helpdesk teams on day-to-day operations.

Managed Network-as-a-Service

Prefer not to manage Central yourself? Ogma offers a fully managed Aruba Central service — we operate the platform, monitor your network 24×7, respond to incidents, and deliver monthly executive reports with trend analysis.

Frequently Asked Questions

Aruba Central is a global SaaS platform hosted on AWS infrastructure. As of 2024, HPE Aruba offers regional data residency options — organizations can select the Asia-Pacific region for data storage. For Indian enterprise and government organizations with data residency requirements under contractual or regulatory frameworks, Ogma advises on the available data locality options and whether Central's regional hosting meets requirements. Note: India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA 2023) does not mandate data localisation for network management telemetry data.

Aruba Central manages: (1) Aruba CX switches (6100, 6300, 6400, 8325, 8360, 10000 series), (2) Aruba Instant AP and Campus AP series (WiFi 5, WiFi 6, WiFi 6E), (3) Aruba SD-WAN gateways (EdgeConnect hardware and virtual), (4) Aruba Mobility Controllers (legacy — in older deployments), and (5) Aruba Remote Access Points (RAP). HPE Aruba is gradually unifying all Aruba product lines into Central as the single management plane.

NetInsight analyzes anonymized telemetry streams from all managed devices — client association events, DHCP logs, authentication events, DNS queries, and RF environment data. Machine learning models identify patterns that correlate with user-impacting events and pinpoint the failure stage: for example, "RADIUS authentication latency > 3s is causing 18% of WiFi associations to fail in Building A." The AI assigns a Network Health score and surfaces actionable recommendations without requiring manual log analysis.

Yes — Aruba Central provides a REST API and webhook support. Webhooks can push real-time alerts (link down, rogue AP detected, config drift) to any webhook endpoint. Ogma has built integrations with ServiceNow, Freshservice, and PagerDuty for Indian customers — automatically creating incidents when Aruba Central detects network events, and resolving them when the condition clears. Custom integrations are available as part of Ogma's managed service.

Foundation includes basic device management, configuration backup, ZTP, and monitoring dashboards — suitable for organizations that just want cloud management without advanced analytics. Advanced adds AI Insights (full root-cause analysis), configuration compliance and drift detection, location services, multi-tenant management, and deeper SD-WAN visibility. For most Indian enterprise deployments, Ogma recommends Advanced licensing as the AI Insights capability pays for itself in reduced helpdesk time and faster incident resolution.

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