Port grouping for admin purposes

[Abertay]

Hi,

We are just moving from Huawei to Cisco and wondered if there is a way to group ports for admin purposes. 

For instance we did 'port-group cctv' and then added members on our Huawei switches and then you could run commands like turning PoE on and off across all the cameras. Also used to use the group for time profiles so we could reboot the switches overnight.

Very useful feature which i hope Cisco has.

thanks

[Mark Elsen]

 - Cisco has port grouping (LAG) but does not relate those features which you describe to that ; of course you can turn POE on and off through other management solutions , 

 M.

[Abertay]

No, i'm not looking to group for traffic purposes, only for configuration purposes. Its a great feature, we group all our WiFi, CCTV, BMS and they can all be configured at the same time.... or we did :<

[Mark Elsen]

 - Can not be done native on the Cisco devices , you need network management products like Cisco Prime (getting obsolete) , or DNA center (=$$ ....)

 M.

[Abertay]

I've got DNA centre, so will look into that side. SSH/CLI is my preferred method though..

[MHM Cisco World]

use template 
and config interface range if that what you looking for. 
Thanks A Lot
MHM

[Georg Pauwen]

@MHM Cisco World Out of curiosity, what template are you referring to ? And how would that template be configured ?

[MHM Cisco World]

https://blogs.cisco.com/networking/cisco-dna-center-template-labs-dynamic-automation-part-8

he mention DNA? am I correct then he can try config template. 

Thanks A Lot
MHM

[Georg Pauwen]

Hello,

as far as I recall, there was a command:

Switch(config)# define interface-range port_group_1 GigabitEethernet0/1 -2, GigabitEthernet0/5-6

The name 'port_group_1' in this example would be the name of the macro which you could then configure:

Switch(config)# interface range macro port_group_1

I think there are certain limitations, one of them being that you can only add 5 comma-separated ranges to each macro...

[Abertay]

Thanks, 5 is a bit of a limitation when we might have 20-30 access points or cameras on one switch stack and of course without some re-organisation the range command doesnt work. I like to stagger them over switches too for resilience and range only works per switch in the stack.