Simplified Operations
New Label Type – User Group
Please note that this feature requires a firmware version of 0.5.16885 or newer
We are excited to roll out RADIUS user group attributes to be used in WxLAN Policies this week. Instead of selecting individual clients to apply policy labels to, configure your RADIUS server to designate certain usernames into a single group, then apply a WxLAN Policy to that group.
From the RADIUS side, configure your group. In the Mist dashboard, create a WLAN (Network > WLANs) with your RADIUS Authentication server. Currently we support Airespace-ACL-Name, Filter-ID, and Aruba-User-Role.
Create a group label for your group by navigating to Network > Labels. Name your label and select AAA Attribute as Label Type. In the dropdown box under Label Values, select User Group. Here, enter the Group Values (Defined from the RADIUS side).
You can see this User Group value in client events for clients authorizing in this group. This is under Monitor > Insights.
Use this group for your WxLAN policies by navigating to Network > Policy. Select your User Group in the User column and set up the rest of your network policy.
For example use cases with Cisco ISE and group labels, please reference this page: https://www.mist.com/documentation/cisco-ise-policy-enforcement/
AP Inventory at the Org level available as a paginated API for faster retrieval
When using API calls to view all APs, you may paginate the list to indicate the current page and maximum number of objects returned in each page. This is for an effort to support sites with very large AP inventories. Please refer to our API document for the usage: https://api.mist.com/api/v1/docs/Overview#query
An example API call:
Request URL: https://api.mist.com/api/v1/orgs/:org_id/inventory Request Method: GET Status Code: 200 OK Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 04:22:05 GMT Request Headers: X-Page-Limit: 1000 X-Page-Page: 35
Paginated API for Org SLEs
To help support sites with a large number of APs, we have increased the page limit to 1000 (previously 100) per API call. This helps speed up the loading of SLEs for sites with 1000+ APs by decreasing the number of API calls needed to load all of the data.
Notification Email – Reflection Events
We have improved the email notification for AP Reflection detected events. Now, in addition to notifying you about any reflection events, our email will include the switch port information as well. This can help network administrators quickly find the root cause for any reflection or loops detected on the network by seeking out the specific port on the switch and troubleshooting from there.
Follow these instructions to enable notifications on your site: https://www.mist.com/documentation/enable-notifications-site/
Marvis – Virtual Network Assistant
Low Power and Inactive VLAN Warnings
Do you ever wish you had more information about your AP power and VLAN status from the Marvis search? Well now you do! With improvements to our troubleshoot AP command we now show these two warnings at the top of your results in a critical problems section. By bringing these additional AP errors, we can provide a more comprehensive view of all issues affecting your APs.
Our APs require PoE+ or 802.3at power to run properly. Please see this page for details about the AP power requirements: https://www.mist.com/documentation/ap41-operate-802-3af/
