Hello! I am doing a 9200 Access, 9400 Core network infrastructure in an offline environment. I would like to do new switch onboarding via the BOOTP process. I have set my management VLAN to not be the default VLAN/VLAN 1. My management VLAN is doing the DHCP broadcast. I have also configured the VTP 3 server with a unique domain+password. But I am unsure what a good practice would be to onboard out-of-the box switches, I feel it would be very unsafe to have a DHCP with the bootp parameters sitting in VLAN 1 to onboard these switches but with the unique MGMT vlan and VTP domain I don't think I see another method?
I will be having 100+ downstream 9200's, managing an IP list is quite a lift. I was hoping for the cisco DNS server to allow me to reach devices via their hostname instead. This is a slots/gaming environment, so constant changes occur and tracking would be easier by giving distinct hostnames instead of physical location to IP list. I have tried the static IP route it was very impractical most of the time.
