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)
    The system provides default gNMI management profiles. When the Fabric Services System starts, it initializes the following default gNMI profiles:
    • defaultDSGnmiprofile_22_6 – Digital Sandbox gNMI profile for SR Linux version earlier than Release 22.11
    • defaultRealGnmiprofile_22_6 – real fabric gNMI profile for SR Linux version earlier than Release 22.11
    • defaultDSGnmiprofile – Digital Sandbox gNMI profile for SR Linux version Release 22.11 and later
    • defaultRealGnmiprofile – real fabric gNMI profile for SR Linux version Release 22.11 and later
    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.
  • Note: The system-defined management profiles listed above are available to all regions. But user-created management profiles are always specific to the region in which they are created, and are not visible within, or available to, other regions.