Zero Touch Provisioning with NSO

[fmarest]

Do you need to add new infrastructure devices in your network?

If the answer to this question is “yes” then you may have an easy solution through NSO (Network Service Orchestrator). Cisco Advanced Services has developed a NSO-based package that can perform onboarding (pushing day 0 & 1 configurations) of your infrastructure devices in your network without manual intervention.

Please be invited to watch this demo where DHCP based Zero Touch Provisioning built on top of NSO is shown.

For further information please contact the Cisco Advanced Services team, Syed Ziaullah (sziaulla@cisco.com), Solution Architect, Manish Jain (manisjai@cisco.com), Director Software Integration and Orchestration and Filip Marest (fmarest@cisco.com), Business Architect

[fwclements1]

Very interested in the ZTP setup.  Couple questions ...

You mentioned that you have a script setup to snoop the DHCP logs looking for the discover request from the device.  What information is it looking for?  I guess, I'm assuming, that since you're binding the configuration to the device via the device serial number, you're assuming the hostname of the device in the discover is the serial number?

I wouldn't mind seeing the package that's handling pushing the configs out to the device once it's online. ZTP is of great interest to me at the moment!

[kuiliu]

This is very interesting and we kind of have a similar requirement in one of POC project, would mind share me where I can download this ZTP package and along with the instruction documents?

[KJ Rossavik]

Does this use the NSO PnP function pack?

Cheers,

KJ.

[kuiliu]

yes, we try to deploy the vm and configuration to ENCS server which includes pnp solutions.

[KJ Rossavik]

Ok,

My question was to the AS team: is what is presented in this VoD based on the NSO PnP function pack?

For ENCS and VNF turnup then you should be exploring VMS for the full solution, or the vBranch function pack bundle (which includes NSO PnP as well as NFVO function packs).

Cheers,

KJ.

[kuiliu]

ZTP might not a perfect solution to our case, and as you mentioned the vBranch function packages are in our vision. however I'm struggling to find out more detail document sabout it. would you mind share me some links of it?

[KJ Rossavik]

I will send you some internal material. We will be posting information to the Developer Hub soon

Cheers,

KJ.

[sziaulla]

sorry for the late reply. we are not using PnP function pack. we tried to be generic and avoided PnP to cover other vendor devices.

[sziaulla]

through script we get the IP address which is assigned to the new device. Script login to the device and get the Serial number which will subsequently be used for identifying device role and corresponding config.

[rogaglia]

Hi,

Have you tried with IOS-XR ZTP mechanism?

https://xrdocs.github.io/software-management/tutorials/2016-08-26-working-with-ztp/

Regards,

Roque

[gvanleeu]

Hi Maciej,

When you receive the link, can you share it with me please.

Also any ppt related to the PnP function pack will be welcome.

Thanks

Guy

[sziaulla]

no we didn't try this option.

this option is not using NSO as part of the process although its possible to invoke a  call to NSO via same script to onboard the device on NSO after the ZTP is complete.

[KJ Rossavik]

I don’t have ppt, but the user docs are in the PnP package. I have also put a copy on the field portal (Cisco internal)

Cheers,

KJ

[tsiemers1]

Is this a package in NSO, or is it part of the PnP package? We are looking at doing ZTP with ASR920's, which are not on the list of supported PnP devices. If we went with the PnP package would it cover ZTP devices as well?

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/solutions/Enterprise/Plug-and-Play/release/notes/pnp-release-notes16.html