What port do you use on a switch for Plug and Play with Cisco Prime?

[trawleigh]

This question is for people that use Cisco Prime's plug and play to configure switches at remote sites, this is Prime WITHOUT using the APICS-EM. I don't have much issue with pre-provisioning the new switch in prime, the question I have is what port on the switch are we supposed to patch in? 

Is it always the management port if the switch has one?

Some switches don't have a management port only the standard switch ports, in that case is there one in particular that we should use to make sure we get a DHCP address with the DHCP option to phone home to the prime server?

Thanks in advance,

Terry

[AFROJ AHMAD]

Hi Terry,

it uses , UDP 69 for TFTP .

Table 26-2 DHCP Server Settings for Auto Install

Command to Enter	Description
ip dhcp pool PNP	Creates a DHCP pool named PNP.
network 10.106.190.0 255.255.255.224	Defines the network 10.106.190.0 and subnet mask 255.255.255.224. DHCP uses this pool of IP addresses to assign an IP address to the new device.
default-router 10.106.190.17	Configures the default route 10.106.190.17 on the new device.
option 150 ip 10.77.240.224	Specifies that the TFTP server IP address 10.77.240.224 is the Prime Infrastructure server IP address.

you can check the below link for more details:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/net_mgmt/prime/infrastructure/3-0/user/guide/pi_ug/plugandplay.html

Thanks-

Afroz

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