We are a Aruba and Bradford school, but we also use clearpass for AirGroup.
We've had Bradford since 2007. * We use it for registration on our entire network, wired and wireless. * We do not use any of the remediation capabilities although we do have it scan machines once a month just so we have a status update. * We have 2 server pairs plus the manager. One pair manages wireless, the other pair manages all wired ports. The manager server handles licensing and copying of user registrations from one pair to the other. * We have our guest wireless users managed through Bradford. * We really like the vlan switching as we separate out applications/users per vlan. Bradford's roles do a great job of making sure every machine is where it needs to be even if it moves around. We also use vlan switching for the dead end functionality so that we can actually remove bad hosts from the network. * We have an 802.1x wireless network that terminates authentication to a real RADIUS server, but the authentication passes through Bradford so the role gets applied appropriately. Works great. I could go on... For clearpass we are utilizing the AirGroup functionality with the Aruba controllers and nothing else. We are very satisfied with Bradford and so far have had no reasons to look elsewhere. Christopher Howard Director, Network Engineering University of Tennessee at Chattanooga [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> On Jul 19, 2016, at 5:09 PM, Brian Helman <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Feel free to ping me off-list. I may sanitize/redact comments and repost them for the benefit of others though.. If you are an Aruba AND Bradford shop, what was you reason for using Bradford vs Clearpass? Our primary interest in NAC is onboarding and guest networks (wired and wireless). We are currently a Bradford shop. I don’t see a reason to change, but I’d like to understand the benefits (or drawbacks) for staying with Bradford (or moving to Clearpass, for that matter). If you migrated from Bradford to Clearpass, would you do it again? Pains? Successes? Vendors: This is not a solicitation for NAC’s or wireless. I’m collecting information. Thanks! -Brian ____________________________________ Brian Helman, M.Ed | Director, ITS/Networking Services | •: 978.542.7272 Salem State University, 352 Lafayette St., Salem Massachusetts 01970 GPS: 42.502129, -70.894779 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
