How do I create a mediation policy for MDM?

Purpose

Use this procedure to configure communication with model-driven devices or domain controllers, using a selected protocol.

The 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 configured mediation policies.

2 

Click png2.pngMEDIATION POLICY.

3 

In the form that opens, leave the Classic Mediation check box unchecked.

4 

Configure the general parameters.

Parameter

Description

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.

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.

This parameter does not appear if the policy type is used for controller discovery only, that is, the policy cannot be used to discover devices.

5 

Configure the communication parameters.

6 

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

End of steps