DNA Templates

[katerina.dardoufa]

Hi all,

I have a question regarding templates on DNAC. When does one use onboarding templates? Once the LAN automation is run and the device is being provisioned? Or do you need to run day-n templates if LAN automation is used?

When you assign a day-n template to a site and the device is provisioned, do you then have to remove the day-n template? What is the best practice?

Thank you in advance,

Katerina

[Torbjørn · Accepted solution]

On-boarding templates are only used in PNP and is intended to bring up the bare necessities for bringing connectivity up between the device and DNAC. Remaining config should be applied through Day-N templates. For LAN automation you would want to use day-n templates.

[katerina.dardoufa]

Thank you for clarifying this!

After the day-n template has been applied, should it be removed from network profiles?

[Torbjørn · Accepted solution]

No problem!

You should keep the template in your network profile for consistency. By doing so you will have consistent configurations across your devices and be able to track device configuration compliance. If the template is specific to a group of devices within areas you can tag them and specify the same tag on your template, that way it will only be provisioned to the devices containing that specific tag.