Management profiles

A management profile defines the connectivity parameters and details that the Fabric Services System uses to connect to a device in the inventory that it needs to manage or communicate with.

A management profile can be one of the following:
  • SNMP management profile - used to manage devices via SNMP
  • gNMI management profile - used to manage devices via the gRPC Network Management Interface (gNMI)

Each type of management profile has its own set of parameters that define how the Fabric Services System connects to a devices or a set of devices to which the management profile is applied.

Management profile creation

You manually create an SNMP management profile, but not a gNMI profile.

The system provides default gNMI management profiles. When the Fabric Services System starts, it initializes the following default gNMI profiles:
defaultDSGnmiprofile
applicable to the Digital Sandbox fabric
defaultRealGnmiprofile
applicable for real fabric
When the Fabric Services System generates the inventory list from an intent topology, the system assigns the default management profile to the nodes using the gNMI.