Associating planned nodes with real hardware

Before you can associate a fabric's planned nodes with hardware:
  • you must have created and saved the fabric intent, and generated the fabric topology.
  • the inventory must include entries for the real-world nodes that correspond to the planned nodes in the fabric intent. The inventory can gain entries for nodes in two ways:
    • when the node hardware is installed, the system automatically discovers the hardware as described in Node discovery.
    • before the node hardware is available, you can pre-load the inventory with information about the anticipated hardware as described in Inventories.
You can use the Inventory view to associate planned nodes in the fabric intent with real-world hardware. The system can only download the necessary configuration data to a node within the fabric intent after this association has been made.

This procedure describes how to manually associate each node with hardware, one node at a time. However, the system also supports uploading a mapping file containing information for multiple nodes

For the procedure for uploading a mapping file, and a more complete description of the available options for associating nodes, see Inventories.

  1. Open the fabric intent as described in Viewing a fabric intent.
  2. In the View drop-down, select Fabric Inventory.
  3. Select a row corresponding to one of the planned nodes and do the following:
    1. Click in the Serial Number column for that row.
    2. Enter the serial number for the real-world node that corresponds to this planned node.
    3. Wait for the real-world node to adopt a Ready state.