Cloud Monitoring for Catalyst Onboarding unused VTY
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11-29-2022 03:18 PM
Hi everyone
We are facing this error when trying to add our switch C9200L-24T-4G (IOS-XE 17.06.04 ) to Cisco Meraki Dashboar for monitoring purposes. We followed this documentation guide from the beginning to the end:
But Meraki provisioning software status ended with this error:
ERROR: Device VTY does not have any empty slots. Confirm there are at least two consecutive unused VTY slot numbers between 16 and 98 inclusive in the running configuration of the switch.
We double check switch configuration but cannot understand, what does "VTY empty slots" mean?
Said catalyst has VTY from line 16 onward, totally available!!. In fact, we also forced the Meraki provisioning software to use SSH port 2000 to hit the line VTY number 16, and not luck yet.
DS_01#who
Line User Host(s) Idle Location
* 2 vty 0 admin idle 00:00:00 172.16.10.1
3 vty 1 admin idle 01:32:25 10.0.13.13
18 vty 16 admin idle 00:23:38 10.0.13.13
Has somebody has face this same issue?
MY LOG OUTPUT:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/17WpBsXDjDab4AAJCymDZVPSP990ZNDuP/view?usp=share_link
Thanks in advance
Isaias M.
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07-09-2024 03:05 PM
I had to go into my 9200 and specify the following (lines 16-31 were unused for me at the time). Once I specifically set that group it started working like a charm and the vty error disappeared.
line vty 16 31
access-class MERAKI_VTY_IN in
access-class MERAKI_VTY_OUT out
authorization exec MERAKI
login authentication MERAKI
rotary 50
transport input ssh
transport output all
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03-31-2025 11:27 AM
I had to close the import tool after install and run the tool as administrator.
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03-31-2025 04:21 PM
Note that this is not a supported version of IOS-XE. As per the document, I would move to IOS-XE 17.12.3 - 17.12.4.
