Aruba stack / VSF monitoring

We are planning on adding better Aruba support in the first half of 2025. Specifics surround routing, hardware health, VLANs, and topology. We do have additional items that we'd like to add around switch stacking and PoE data, however, these are still in a research phase and not set to a specific release.

That's good to hear cause we are heavy users now of Aruba products and it has been a headache to get the same level of info from Aruba products in SW where Cisco was dead easy. It's been that much an issue the only reason we still use SW is cause I have been insistent on keeping the platform and my autistic brain really cannot be bothered to learn another platform 

Agreed. We came very close to leaving SW because of the lack of Aruba support. Do you have any config in place to fetch specific info from Aruba kit? I.e. we're trying to extract VSF info but to no avail.

No we cannot get any stack info from SW in regards to Aruba I cannot even get NCM to work with the new CX switches to download configs

Ah, we managed to get our Aruba CX switches working with NCM. Although, I believe we had to manually specify the 'Aruba' device template, autodetect not working as fluently as we'd like.

Ah, we managed to get our Aruba CX switches working with NCM. Although, I believe we had to manually specify the 'Aruba' device template, autodetect not working as fluently as we'd like.

How did you manage that we have 50 CX Aruba 6300F switches and they refuse to work with ANY aruba template 

Maybe just a spell of good luck on our side then... We also have 6300 devices (both M and F models), as well as 8320s which are being monitored just fine. Obviously we just had to check 'Manage with NCM' under Edit Node, set a connection profile with valid CLI creds and specified the 'Aruba' canned template. That's it! Other than allowing access on the switch's ACLs.

dont know if you ever figured this out but the following device templet works for our CX devices! 

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<!--SolarWinds Network Management Tools-->
<!--Copyright 2005 SolarWinds.Net All rights reserved-->
<Configuration-Management Device="Aruba CX Switch" SystemOID="1.3.6.1.4.1.47196">
	<Commands>
		<Command Name="RESET" Value="page"/>
		<Command Name="Reboot" Value="boot system${CRLF}Yes"/>
		<Command Name="RebootAt" Value="reload at ${HH}:${NN}${CRLF}Yes"/>
		<Command Name="EnterConfigMode" Value="config t"/>
		<Command Name="ExitConfigMode" Value="end"/>
		<Command Name="Startup" Value="startup-config"/>
		<Command Name="Running" Value="running-config"/>
		<Command Name="DownloadConfig" Value="Show ${ConfigType}"/>
		<Command Name="UploadConfig" Value="${EnterConfigMode}${CRLF}${ConfigText}${CRLF}${ExitConfigMode}"/>
		<Command Name="DownloadConfigIndirect" Value="copy ${ConfigType} ${TransferProtocol}://${StorageAddress}/${StorageFilename}"/>
		<Command Name="UploadConfigIndirect" Value="copy ${TransferProtocol}://${StorageAddress}/${StorageFilename}  ${ConfigType}"/>
		<Command Name="EraseConfig" Value="erase startup-config${CRLF}Yes"/>
		<Command Name="SaveConfig" Value="copy running-config startup-config"/>
		<Command Name="Version" Value="show version"/>
	</Commands>
</Configuration-Management>