How to use cloud for unified network management

Enterprises in the use of cloud, the general cloud into a wired and wireless network management of the two ideal combination point. The new Cloud-based network management platform offers many things like saving money and simplifying software maintenance. Many wireless LAN vendors, including Aerohive and Meraki NX, now offer the benefits of other cloud services, such as managing products, through customized cloud platforms , and Aerohive and Meraki also provide the same cloud-managed, cloud-based routers. Aerohive routers from the recently acquired Pareto networks,aerohive plan to integrate these routers into their existing management platform.

Previously, Ty Puckett has been embarrassed to manage legacy wireless LANs in Georgia Greenway Jude. With each new feature deployed at that time, it executives had to be busy back and forth in the command-line interface and complex licensing scenarios.

When the company upgraded its wireless network, Puckett and its team replaced the original network with Aerohive's new wireless LAN infrastructure. They ordered the Aerohive based network management platform Hivemanager Online.

Puckett said: "We have moved many important systems to the cloud, so we are very open to cloud-based WLAN management." ”

Cloud based Hivemanager can manage all configuration, management, and monitoring of company wireless access points through an encrypted web link. Puckett and its team can log in anywhere via the Internet, add new access points to the network, change network settings, or troubleshoot network problems. Puckett can push software updates to the access points he is responsible for at home without having to log in to the control side of the office.

"I tend to log in from home in the evening of Sunday and push new firmware to the wireless group," Puckett said. And we never have to upgrade the software in the cloud controller. He adds that when Aerohive modifies Hivemanager online management software, updates and new features begin to emerge.

For Puckett, the role of cloud management has emerged at the annual user conference of Greenway Jude. They will provide wireless access to participants and Greenway employees who are miles away from the designated meeting place.

Puckett said: "In the past, I had to spend the whole week in the hotel to make sure everything was OK." With cloud management, I can adjust and optimize the wireless network of our company and customers to meet the needs of our customers by sitting at the desk. ”

Puckett points out that the key to migrating to cloud-based management products is remote access capabilities, Easy-to-use web interfaces, and lower costs (as opposed to hardware wireless LAN Controller solutions).

Puckett said: "Hivemanager online has let me reconsider how to manage the network in the future." Cloud based management will undoubtedly be one of the options for future purchases of infrastructure. If aerohive sells switches and routers this way, then I'll buy them. ”

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