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Aruba Wireless Controller

Aruba wireless controller syslog — client association/disassociation, 802.1X/web/MAC authentication, AP up/down events, WIDS rogue AP detection, and ARM radio channel management across 20 access points.

Quick Start

uv tool install eventum-generator
git clone https://github.com/eventum-generator/content-packs.git
cd content-packs
eventum generate \
  --path generators/network-wireless-aruba/generator.yml \
  --id aruba-wlan \
  --live-mode true

Event Types

Event IDDescriptionFrequencyCategory
522008Auth Success (RADIUS)~24.9%authentication
501030Station Associated~19.7%network
501199User Authenticated with Role~19.8%authentication
501060Station Disassociated~14.7%network
501080User De-authenticated~7.9%authentication
501217User Entry Deleted~7.9%authentication
522275Auth Failed~1.6%authentication
500010ARM Channel Change~1.2%configuration
302004AP Up~0.8%configuration
404003Interfering AP Detected~0.8%intrusion_detection
124001Rogue AP Detected (WIDS)~0.5%intrusion_detection
302006AP Down~0.3%configuration

Realism Features

  • Correlated client sessions — associated events produce context consumed by disassociation
  • Multiple SSIDs — Corp-WiFi (802.1X, 55%), Guest-WiFi (web-auth, 20%), IoT-Network (MAC-auth, 15%)
  • 20 access points across 3 buildings (HQ, DC, Branch)
  • Rogue AP detection — random SSIDs (NETGEAR-5G, linksys, FreeWiFi) with confidence levels
  • ARM channel changes — 2.4GHz: 1/6/11, 5GHz: 36-165 with interference-based reasons
  • Authentication failure scenarios — 60% real users (expired creds), 40% unknown/attacker usernames

Sample Output

{
    "@timestamp": "2026-02-22T17:46:52+00:00",
    "event": {
        "action": "user-authentication-successful",
        "category": ["authentication"],
        "code": "522008",
        "outcome": "success"
    },
    "aruba": {
        "wireless": {
            "ap_name": "AP-HQ-F2-01",
            "auth_method": "802.1x",
            "ssid": "Corp-WiFi",
            "vlan": 100
        }
    },
    "user": { "name": "jsmith" },
    "observer": {
        "product": "ArubaOS",
        "type": "wireless",
        "vendor": "Aruba"
    }
}

Parameters

ParameterDefaultDescription
controller_hostnamearuba-mc01Controller hostname
controller_ip192.168.1.1Controller management IP
agent_idb2c3d4e5-...Filebeat agent ID
agent_version8.17.0Filebeat version

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