Introduction to AOS-10 (IAOS10)

HPE Aruba Networking AOS-10 is the cloud-native operating system for HPE Aruba Networking access points and gateways. Managed through HPE Aruba Networking Central, it moves configuration, monitoring, upgrades, and licensing into a single cloud platform, replacing much of the site-by-site controller management that earlier architectures relied on.

Introduction to AOS-10 (IAOS10) training prepares participants with the foundational skills to work with the platform. Over two days of instruction and labs, learners cover WLAN and RF fundamentals, AOS-10 architecture and supported hardware, access points with AirMatch and ClientMatch, user roles and identity-based firewall policies, gateway deployments and clustering, tunnel forwarding modes, microbranch and cloud services including live upgrades, key management and central licensing.

Course Structure and Key Details

Introduction to AOS-10 is a two-day course delivered as instructor-led classroom or online training, with e-learning available through some authorised partners. It is organised into nine modules that combine instruction with labs.

The course begins with WLAN fundamentals and RF basics, including bands and channels, 802.11 standards, antennas, radio technologies, transmit power, and WLAN mobility. It then covers security-first, AI-powered networking, including edge network challenges and HPE Aruba Networking Central, and the AOS-10 architecture, product line, and supported hardware.

The AOS-10 access points module covers differences from Instant APs, AirMatch, ClientMatch, Central groups, AP-only WLAN configuration and monitoring. The user roles module covers the firewall, roles, policies and rules, role derivation, identity-based firewall, access control, application rules, aliases and global and WLAN policies. Deployments with gateways covers when to use gateways, gateway modes, AP and switch connections, tunnel orchestration, gateway-to-gateway tunnels and cluster configuration, monitoring and deployment.

The last three modules cover tunnel forwarding mode (the tunnel orchestrator, tunnel-mode SSID configuration and mixed forwarding mode), microbranch (HPE’s microbranch solution, configuration and policy-based routing) and cloud services (changes from AOS-8 to AOS-10, WAN bandwidth requirements, live upgrades for APs and gateways, key management and central licensing).

The prerequisites are networking fundamentals, IP addressing, and IP routing. No certification exam is included in the course.

Course Objectives

• List the features in AOS-10.
• Create groups and users.
• Add and configure access points.
• Add and configure gateways.
• Describe and configure the tunnel forwarding modes.
• Describe and configure microbranch.
• Describe and implement cloud services.