Perfect – thanks Ryan.

We will be creating an onboarding SSID, I may pick your brain about that if I 
run into any challenges.


Chris Brizzell
Assistant Director of Network and Technical Services and Network Administrator
Skidmore College
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
518-580-5994



From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv 
<[email protected]> On Behalf Of Turner, Ryan H
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 9:58 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba - Going from PEAP to TLS

I can’t speak to the Clearpass, but you should spend more time validating the 
onboarding process so that it is smooth.  That is going to be your issue.  The 
setup won’t take long, but a poorly designed user experience will hurt you.  I 
am going to assume you will use SecureW2s cloud PKI.  We are going to be 
switching that that from an AD private PKI.  Don’t be silly with certificate 
lengths or hashes.  2048 length with SHA256 works fine.  No need to do anything 
more and risk client support issues (in my opinion).

You should stand up a test onboarding SSID (if you are going to have one) and 
get people to go through the process before production and get feedback.  
Utilize the documentation other schools have built (wifi.unc.edu).  If you 
haven’t used an onboarding SSID to date, then you have a lot of work just to 
make that work well.  Realize that Android devices are going to be 75% of your 
issues.  The other operating systems are pretty easy and straightforward (OSX 
is the second runner for issues).  iOS and windows are a breeze.

Good luck and welcome to the TLS club 😉


Ryan Turner
Head of Networking
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
+1 919 445 0113 Office
+1 919 274 7926 Mobile
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From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 
On Behalf Of Christopher Brizzell
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 8:57 AM
To: 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba - Going from PEAP to TLS

In what should have been done long ago, we would like to move off of our 
EAP-PEAP and onto EAP-TLS.

Most likely we will be going with SecureW2 to help with that process.

I’d like to hear from anyone who may have done this with Aruba OS and 
Clearpass, so as to avoid any pitfalls and look for advice on the best way to 
proceed.

Thank You.

Chris Brizzell
Assistant Director of Network and Technical Services and Network Administrator
Skidmore College
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
518-580-5994


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