How do I create a mediation policy?

Purpose

A mediation policy consists of a network communication profile, which contains information such as port number and timeouts, and a network user, which is a user name and password. You can associate users or communication profiles with multiple policies.

For example, if two different network users (that is, two sets of credentials) might be used to log in to the same port using CLI over Telnet, create a policy of type CLI for each user. When you create the second policy, associate the communication profile you created for the first policy. This applies the same CLI parameters to the policy for the other user.

Steps
 
1 

Open Device Discovery, Mediation Policies.

The system displays the list of existing mediation policies.

2 

Click png2.pngMEDIATION POLICY.

3 

In the form that opens, configure the required parameters.

Parameter

Description

Mediation policy type

Specifies the communication type the mediation policy is for, for example, SNMPV3.

Note: For gNMI-based discovery, select the GRPC mediation policy type.

Mediation policy name

The name of the mediation policy

Description

User-provided description of the policy

Use For Discovery

Disable this parameter if the communication type is not to be used to discover the NE, for example, if the communication type is for telemetry collection only.

Associate network communication profile (radio button)

Select this radio button to use the communication profile parameters from an existing mediation policy. Use the Search field to find the name of the associated profile you want to use.

Create new network communication profile (radio button)

Select this radio button to configure new communication protocol parameters.

The parameters vary based on the mediation policy type.

Associate network user (radio button)

Select this radio button to use a network user from an existing mediation policy. Use the Search field to find the name of the network user you want to use.

Create new network user (radio button)

Select this radio button to configure a new network user.

The parameters vary based on the mediation policy type.

4 

Click CREATE. The mediation policy is automatically assigned a policy ID and is added to the list.

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