Plug and Play for Cisco Small Business 300 Series Managed Switch

[pvanvuuren]

Good day

what are the Auto-Install options available for the Cisco Small Business 300 Series Managed Switch ?

It would appear there are none, the operating system is not the standard IOS I'm used to.

Would like to use it with Cisco Prime Infrastructure's PnP Gateway capability.

Regards

Pierre

[Yiu Kay Lee · Accepted solution]

Prime Infrastructure uses and assumes a CNS (Cisco Network Services) agent on the other side when enabling "plug & play". 300/500 Series do not run IOS and does not include a CNS agent, but there is a way to enable auto-configuration. The switches support DHCP Autoconfiguration (using DHCP options 66, 67, and others) whereby they automatically download their config from a TFTP server at boot time. This allows an administrator to put the configs for all the switches on a TFTP server and simply boot a factory-defaulted switch in order to get its config.

Attached is a document showing how this is done.

Hope the information would be of assistance.

[pvanvuuren]

Thanks Yiu - this is most helpfull.

Is there a way to use the TFTP capability of the Cisco Prime server then ?

Perhaps place full config for the switch instead of the "usual" bootstrap config.

Cheers

Pierre