Chapter 4. Onboarding and Provisioning

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • Configuration Templates: In this section, we discuss various template types, including CLI, device, and feature templates. Design and scaling techniques with templates are discussed in this section as well.

  • Developing and Deploying Templates: This section provides step-by-step instructions on how to build and deploy device and feature templates.

  • Onboarding Devices: Onboarding of devices with manual bootstrapping as well as automatic provisioning with techniques such as Plug and Play (PNP) and Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) are discussed in this section.

Current methods for managing configurations on network devices pose a lot of challenges. These challenges include ...

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