The document discusses Aruba Solution Exchange (ASE), a free online tool that provides intelligent configuration wizards for Aruba networking solutions. It describes ASE's benefits like dynamically generated configurations, standardized solution presentations, and community support. The agenda includes an introduction to ASE, a feature demonstration, a live demo, information on contributing, and Q&A. It also outlines the ASE workflow, configuration pain points addressed by ASE, and ASE's planned roadmap.

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Aruba Solution
Exchange (ASE)
Choh Kok – Technical Lead
Ravi Mehra – Full Stack Developer
March 8, 2016 @ArubaNetworks |

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Agenda
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• Introduction to ASE
• Feature Demonstration
• Live Demo
• Contributing
• Q&A
10 minutes
25 minutes
10 minutes
20 minutes
10 minutes

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Introduction to ASE

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What is Aruba Solution Exchange?
– Visit ASE at
https://ase.arubanetworks.com/
– Intelligent configuration wizards
– It’s free! Available to all customers,
partners, and Airheads community
users for free
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ASE Workflow
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Configuration Pain Points
– User guides are long and often don’t contain thorough configuration samples.
– Tech notes and VRDs must be translated to match your network topology. Configuration options and
values are static.
– Tech notes expect a certain level of knowledge.
– User missing a “hidden” configuration step.
– KB articles, white papers, and tech notes get outdated.
– Configuration applied from going through a tech note can not be reverted. There are no “undo” steps.
– Limited community involvement.
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ASE Benefits
– Configuration dynamically generated.
– Holistic configuration spanning multiple products.
– Less user error stemming from less user typing.
– Lab validated configuration.
– Standardized solution presentation.
– Flexible platform to design and program any solution.
– Community supported – idea submission, solution creation, modification, and compatibility feedback.
– Solution versioning and notification system.
– Recognition for contributors.
– Email generated configuration.
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Feature Demonstration

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Live Solution Walkthrough

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Contributing

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Submit Ideas
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Solution Creation and Modification
– Every solution can be modified by customers, partners, and internal employees.
– All submissions for new solutions or modified solutions will be reviewed before being approved.
– Solution changes are tracked.
– Accepted submissions will add you to the list of contributors.
– Email approved changes to users followed the solution.
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How to create a solution?
– Tutorials available at https://ase.arubanetworks.com/docs
– Learn configuration syntax
– View Source of existing solutions
– Copy configuration from similar solutions or from your running configuration.
– Verify configuration
– Submit!
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Best Practices
– Use Live Preview to preview your solution before submitting for approval.
– Use all lower case for variable name.
– Use underscore as separator variable name.
– Example: ip_address
– Use validator to validate user input.
– Use placeholder or help text to guide user in entering the correct value.
– Use rich text if contain graphical instructions.
– Use (#nonconfigvar #) tag to,
– Change the order of the questions.
– Get user input for controlling the flow of codes block.
– Use annotations to illustrate the GUI based device configuration.
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Sample Solution
– Let’s start kicking the tire by creating a
simple calculator in ASE 
– https://ase.arubanetworks.com/solutions/id/122
– Feel free to modify the solution and submit
for approval.
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Feature Roadmap

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Planned Features
– More solutions!
– Private space for customers, departments, or partners.
– Ability to save configuration for future retrieval.
– Better integration with AirHeads Community.
– Expand config syntax tags to support more use cases.
– Better organization and presentation of existing solutions.
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Q&A

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force in the fight against network
mayhem. Find out what your
IT superpower is.
Share your results with friends
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20. Thank you
dl-esupport-development@arubanetworks.com