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Device Management Guide

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Part I. Device management essentials

1. Device support in NSP

How does NSP support devices?

What devices are supported by NSP?

What is an adaptor?

Where can I find more information about adaptors?

How do I configure and manage devices?

How do I view adaptor information for an NE?

What is NE resynchronization?

What is unmanaging a device?

2. Device discovery

Discovering devices using NSP

How does device discovery work?

What is flexible discovery?

What are discovery protocols and policies?

Procedures for device discovery

How do I create a mediation policy?

How do I create a reachability policy?

How do I discover devices?

3. NE maintenance

NE backup and restore

How do I back up an NE?

How do I view backup files for an NE?

How do I compare two backup files for an NE?

How do I restore an NE from a backup?

Part II. Advanced device management

4. Large-scale operations

Overview

Operations

Operation views

Operation types provided by NSP

Procedures

How do I change the life cycle state of an operation type?

How do I start or schedule a new operation?

How do I start or schedule a saved operation?

How do I view or manage scheduled operations?

How do I view current operations and executions?

How do I start, stop, or pause an operation?

How do I view the details of completed operations?

How do I view a history of operations performed on an NE?

How do I automate the cleanup of completed operations?

How do I view reports generated by an operation?

How do I retry an execution within a phase?

How do I terminate an execution in progress?

How do I retry a failed operation?

How do I perform a rollback on a target in an operation?

Troubleshooting

Operation troubleshooting

5. NE software upgrades using NSP

NE software upgrades using NSP

Upgrade operation requirements

Process for NE upgrade

How do I import a node software image?

How do I upgrade software on an NE?

6. Zero Touch Provisioning

What is Zero Touch Provisioning?

How do I configure Zero Touch Provisioning?

Can I change ZTP parameters from NSP?

Part III. Device configuration

7. Device object configuration

Viewing NE parameters

How do I see what is configured on an NE?

Model Driven Configurator

What tools can I use to configure NEs in NSP?

How do I open a device for configuration?

How do I configure device objects?

8. Network configuration

Template-based configuration deployment

What is device configuration in NSP?

How does configuration deployment work?

Configuration process

ICM process

Configuration intent types

What is a configuration intent type?

How do I import a configuration intent type?

Configuration templates

What is a configuration template?

What is the difference between deploying a template and associating a template?

How do I create a configuration template?

How do I update a template to apply intent type schema form changes?

What is migration?

How do I migrate a deployment to another template?

How do I deploy or associate a template to the network?

How do I associate a logical template to the network?

How do I associate a physical template to the network?

How do I retry a failed association?

How do I change the life cycle status of a template?

How do I edit a template?

How do I audit or align configurations?

Configuration deployments

How do I create a deployment?

How do I create a logical configuration deployment?

How do I create a physical configuration deployment?

How do I edit a deployment?

How do I bulk edit multiple deployments?

How do I deploy a saved deployment?

How do I retry a failed deployment?

How do I distribute a logical configuration deployment?

How do I distribute a physical configuration deployment?

How do I delete a deployment?

How do I remove a deployment?

How do I audit or align a deployment?

How do I audit or align configurations for an NE?

Part IV. Device management use cases

9. Use cases

Discovery of a 7750 SR device in NSP

NFM-P and NSP comparison: Port Configuration

NFM-P and NSP comparison: QoS

NFM-P and NSP comparison: LAG Configuration