The Aruba UXI (formerly Cape Networks) sensor is a useful piece of kit to help understand the status of a wireless network remotely and from the perspective of an end user. We have it set to test connectivity to our 802.1X Wi-Fi using some different credentials to check the function of different roles. However, one network that was missing was our guest network.
The guest network, in common with many UK universities is provided by the Cloud from Sky and is protected by a captive portal. I had always assumed that this would be a blocker for the UXI sensor but it turns out that they have a way to around this. Once an a guest account has been created then using a chrome plugin called "Aruba Recorder" if we perform the manual login and provide the output to Cape Networks support they can add this to the sensor and it will perform the user login. The full details can be found here.
Unfortunately at this time it isn't possible for the user to upload the recorder output but requires the Cape support to do this. Hopefully this won't always be the case.
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