Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has added more bells and whistles to its Aruba Networking Central platform in the form of augmented troubleshooting capabilities.

Revealed in a flashy video posted to LinkedIn by Dobias Van Ingen, HPE Networking’s CTO for EMEA, the update gives Central users the ability to view client roaming paths on an actual floor plan, whereas previously they could only see which source access point (AP) they were connected to.

In addition, the update also provides improved insights into addressing poor client connectivity when moving. Network administrators can now see a more detailed view of a client’s destination AP and the location of the roam occurrence, eliminating the need for location-based tags and instead pinpointing the exact location of a ‘dead spot.’

“Imagine verifying a user issue or validating Wi‑Fi design decisions, you can literally see how a client moves through your environment and which APs support that journey,” Van Ingen said, adding: “A small detail with a massive impact on visibility.”

The improved troubleshooting addition comes a little over a year after HPE reworked Aruba Networking Central, positioning its centralised platform as a means to potentially power so-called “self-driving networks.”

A series of AI augmentations and, more recently, market-specific sovereignty instances have since seen HPE push on as it looks to make the platform its flagship offering, having taken control of what was essentially the platform's biggest rival in the form of Mist following its Juniper acquisition.

That market push doesn’t show any signs of slowing, either, with HPE set to unleash what Simon Wilson, CTO at HPE Aruba in EMEA teased to SDxCentral as “New Central” late last year.

The rework will see Aruba Central given a major redesign that’s heavy on capabilities Wilson described as “proper AI.”

“[Aruba’s] AI capabilities have grown over time,” Wilson said. “Central’s next iteration is very heavy on AI insights, and particularly agentic AI. You ask it a question, it takes you to the answer, but it also takes you where it found the answer as well.”

Upon showcasing the troubleshooting update, Van Ingen teased more additions coming to Aruba Central, adding: “Stay tuned for more new feature updates coming soon.”