Configure the Aruba Remote Network

To configure the Aruba SD-WAN with Prisma Access, complete the following workflow.

Validated IKE and IPSec Cryptographic Profiles

Both the Aruba Branch Gateways and Prisma Access support several options when it comes to setting up VPN tunnels. The following table provides the configurations that have been validated for this solution, and offer a good compromise between performance, flexibility and security (considering the integration is mostly for Internet-bound traffic).
Crypto Profile
Phase 1
Phase 2
Confidentiality
AES-256
You configure this setting as
aes-256-cbc
in Prisma Access.
AES-256
You configure this setting as
aes-256-cbc
in Prisma Access.
Integrity
SHA256
SHA1
Authentication
Username/Password
N/A
Key Exchange Method
Diffie-Helman
Diffie-Helman
Diffie-Helman Group
14
14
NAT-Transversal
Enabled
N/A
Dead Peer Detection (DPD)
Enabled
Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS)
N/A
Yes
VPN Type
N/A
Policy-based VPN

Configure the Remote Network Connection in Prisma Access

You manage and configure Prisma Access using the same Panorama appliance that you use to manage on-premise firewalls. To begin configuration of the remote network connection, complete the following task.
  1. Create a new IPSec crypto profile in Panorama.
    The IKE and IPSec crypto profiles you create in these steps are common to all branches and you only need to create them once.
    1. Select
      Network
      Network Profiles
      IPSec Crypto
      .
    2. Add
      a new IPSec crypto profile using the following recommended settings:
      • Encryption
        :
        aes-256-cbc
      • Authentication
        :
        sha1
      • DH Group
        :
        group14
      • Lifetime
        :
        2 Hours
  2. Create a new IKE crypto profile for the remote network tunnel.
    Be sure to use crypto values that are supported with Aruba and make a note of the values you use.
  3. Create a new IKE gateway in Panorama.
    1. Select
      Network
      Network Profiles
      IKE Gateways
      .
    2. Add
      a new IKE gateway.
      Enter the following parameters:
      • In the
        General
        tab, leave the
        Local Identification
        IP address
        blank, because you do not know what this address is at the time of configuration. You can, however, enter in the
        Peer Identificaiton
        of a type of
        FQDN (hostname)
        and enter the FQDN of the BGW.
      • In the
        Advanced Options
        tab, enter the fields as shown in the following screenshot. Be sure to specify the
        IKE Crypto Profile
        you created in Step 1
  4. Create an IPSec tunnel configuration.
    After you create the IKE gateway, you can apply it to the IPSec tunnel you create.
    1. Select
      Network
      IPSec Tunnels
      .
    2. Add
      a new IPSec tunnel.
    3. In the
      General
      tab, specify the
      IKE Gateway
      and
      IPSec Crypto Profile
      you created in earlier steps.
  5. Specify the following parameters:
    • Choose a
      Region
      that is close to the remote network location that you want to onboard.
    • Specify the
      IPSec Tunnel
      you just created.
    • If a backup gateway is in place in the branch, specify this backup gateway as a secondary by selecting
      Enable Secondary WAN
      and selecting the tunnel between the secondary BGW andPrisma Access.
  6. Retrieve the
    Service IP Address
    of the Prisma Access side of the tunnel by selecting
    Panorama
    Cloud Services
    Status
    Network Details
    , clicking the
    Remote Networks
    radio button, and copying the address in the
    Service IP Address
    field.
    You need the
    Service IP Address
    to the IPSec tunnel for the Aruba SD-WAN.

Configure the Aruba BGW

The configuration required for the BGWs is straightforward and can leverage Aruba Central’s group-based configuration to reuse as much configuration as possible across branches.
  1. In the Aruba Branch Gateway, set up the tunnel to Prisma Access.
    1. Select
      VPN
      Cloud Security
      Palo Alto Networks - GPCS
      .
    2. Enter values in the fields.
      • Name
        —Enter an administrative name for the tunnel. The system will append
        _gpcs
        at the end.
      • Priority
        —Enter a numeric identifier for the tunnel.
      • Transform
        —Select
        default-aes
        , which uses AES256 encryption with SHA1 Hash.
      • Source FQDN
        —Enter the user ID created in Prisma Access (santaclara.branch in the following screenshot).
      • Tunnel destination IP
        —Enter the
        Service IP Address
        from the remote network connection that you got when you configured the remote network connection in Prisma Access
      • Uplink VLAN
        —Select the Uplink VLAN to be used to bring up tunnels to Prisma Access (in the case of BGWs) or the source VLAN in the case of VPNCs.
      • IKE Shared Secret
        —Set the same value created in the Prisma Access configuration.
      The solution is capable of setting up multiple tunnels and determining which traffic is sent through each one using PBR policies; therefore, you can configure active-active and active-backup redundancy.
      Even though the source FQDN has to be unique on a per-branch basis, you should configure the remaining parts of the tunnel configuration at the group level whenever possible. This hierarchical configuration model greatly streamlines configuration efforts. The following screenshot shows a specific
      Source FQDN
      configured for the local configuration and a generic
      Source FQDN
      specified for the group-level configuration.
  2. Create one or more next-hop lists with the tunnels.
    After you create the the tunnels, next-hop lists group them together to be used inside PBR policies.
    1. Select
      Routing
      NextHop Configuration
      .
    2. Create a
      NextHop
      .
    3. Add
      Site-to-Site
      IPSec maps.
    4. Enter different priorities for the different tunnels.
      Prisma Access doesn’t support load-balancing.
    5. Select
      Preemptive-failover
      .
  3. Add the next hop to a routing policy by selecting
    Routing
    Policy-Based Routing
    .
    In the following example, the policy is sending all the traffic to private subnets (an alias representing 10.0.0.0/8 and 172.16.0.0/12) through the regular path, and it’s sending the rest of the traffic through the Prisma Access nodes.
  4. Apply policies to the roles or VLANs.
    After you create the routing policy, the last step you perform is to apply it to the role or VLAN that you want to send through Prisma Access.
    If there is a conflict between PBR policies applied to a role and VLAN, policies applied to the role take precedence.
    The following screen shows a PBR policy being applied to a VLAN.
    The following screen shows a PBR policy being applied to a role.
  5. Continue to Verify and Troubleshoot the Aruba Remote Network to verify the status of the remote network tunnel.

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