Aruba

This course teaches you about the Meridian Bluetooth beacons as well as the Analytics and Location Engine (ALE) platform. Participants learn in-depth technical features and have an opportunity to tackle hands-on labs in this 3 day instructor-led course. This course teaches participants about topics such as Meridian Appmaker and SDK, maps and app content creation. Students are provided with a technical overview of beacon deployment and troubleshooting, with hands-on labs. In this course, participants learn about the ALE platform and integration with Third-party analytics providers. The course covers ClearPass integration with Aruba Location Services and Meridian powered Applications.

After you successfully complete this course, expect to be able to:

• Understand Aruba Location services, BLE and ALE
• Demonstrate creating an App with Maps, Placemarks, Pages and Events
• Identify BLE Beacon Positioning and Notification
• Understand Campaigns and Notifications
• Demonstrate Beacon Management and Operations
• Troubleshooting Beacon deployments and campaigns
• Integrate ClearPass with Aruba location Services

 Meridian AppMaker, BLE, and ALE Introduction

•     Aruba Location Services and Meridian Product line
•     Key Features of the Meridian Platform
•     ALE and Analytics
•     Deployment models/ Customer Use cases
•     Licensing
•     AppMaker vs SDK App
•     Downloading/Navigating an App

Maps and Placemarks

•     App Creation Process
•     Building an App
•     Maps
•     Placemarks
•     Routes
•     Downloading App Viewer
•     Viewing App in App Viewer
•     Self-guided Wayfinding in an App

Pages and Events

•     Creating Pages in AppMaker
•     Types of Pages
•     Creating Lists
•     Events
•     App Theme
•     Language Localization

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Beacon Positioning and Notification

•     Basics 

•     Beacon Location vs Proximity 
Beacon
•     Beacons App
•     Deploying Beacons
•     Beacons in Meridian Editor
•     Beacons Monitoring and Troubleshooting

Campaigns and Notifications

•     Deploying a Proximity Beacon
•     Creating Campaigns
•     Associating a Beacon to a campaign
•     Testing and resetting campaigns

Beacon Deployment and Installation

•     RF Design review
•     Beacon Deployment Models
•     Antenna Patterns
•     Beacon Installation

Remote Beacon Management

•     Product Options
•     Architecture
•     Supported Controllers/AP models
•     Battery Powered vs USB beacons
•     Configuration and Features
•     Deploying an Aruba Sensor

Operations and maintenance

•     Beacons walk-through mode
•     Beacons Maintenance
•     Replacing Beacons
•     Deleting Beacons
•     Moving Beacons
•     Updating Apps in the App Store
•     License Renewals
•     Reports

    
ALE and Analytics

•     Why analytics
•     ALE architecture
•     ALE interface
•     Third party analytics
•     ALE scaling and licensing

Integration with ClearPass

•     Integration components
•     ClearPass integration
•     OAuth2
•     Configure ClearPass for OAuth2/Meridian