Discovered Switches are switches discovered by Arista’s Managed APs.

The Discovered Switch listing page displays the vendor name, number of APs managed by that switch, the AP distribution, and the number of connected WiFi clients. The Access Point Distribution column has a link to view all the APs connected to the switch. Since the APs are tied to the location hierarchy, if you do not have access to a particular location, you may not see the APs managed by the switch.

The following image shows the AP distribution in the right panel on clicking the View Details link:

In the AP Distribution view, you can filter the APs by location, PoE type, or link speed.

• The categories for PoE Type are PoE, PoE+, andPoE++.
• The categories for link speed are 10Gbps, 5Gbps, 2.5Gbps, 1Gbps, 100Mbps, and 10Mbps.

The Managed Switches listing shows all the managed switches deployed in your network. You will see the Manged Switches tab if you have enabled CVaaS.

CV-CUE displays the switch details for the following switch models — 710P, 720XP, 720D, and 722XP. It contains information about the switch such as Software Version, MAC Address, Location, Status, Total Ports, Available Ports, Available PoE Power, etc.

You can perform the following operations on Managed switches:

• Move: Move to switch to a different location.

• Rename: Rename the switch.

• Decommission : You can decommission a switch and remove it from CV-CUE. Once you decommission a switch, it is deleted from CV-CUE and you need to onboard the switch again.

• Reboot: Reboot the switch.

  
  
  

Switch Details

Click the switch name to view complete details of the switch. Switch details contain Switch Summary, Switch Properties and Switch Layout, Switch Topology. Hover over a port in the Switch layout to view its status. You can also click a particular port to view more details about the port. To go back to summary, click the Switch Summary icon.

The following image shows the switch details page:

Host tabs contain information about devices connected to switches.

You can onboard switches manually or use Arista’s Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) to onboard your switches to CV-CUE.

Onboarding Switches using ZTP

You can use ZTP to onboard a switch without user intervention. ZTP leverages the power of Arista’s Extensible Operating System (EOS) to onboard switches.

Prerequisites:

• DHCP Server: Switch should be able to reach arista.io by obtaining valid IP settings from a DHCP server.
• EOS Version: The device should be running EOS version 4.25.5 or 4.26.1 or newer.

You can enable ZTP using a custom bootstrap script and use a DHCP server option to point to that bootstrap script.

To enable ZTP using a bootstrap script:

1. Log in to the CV-CUE and generate a token from System > Advanced Settings > Switch Onboarding and click Generate.
   
   
2. Prepare a bootstrap script and host it on an HTTP server. You can get asample script fromhttps://github.com/aristanetworks/cloudvision-ztpaas-utils.
3. Provide the updated token information and other information in the bootstrap script.

   ############## USER INPUT #############
   cvAddr = "www.cv-staging.corp.arista.io"
   enrollment_token = "eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1Nixxx..."
   ############## USER INPUT #############
   Note: If the device is behind a non-transparent proxy, use the following cvproxy option:
   # Add proxy url if device is behind proxy server, leave it as an empty string otherwise
   cvproxy = ""
   Note: You can start an HTTP server using python (python3 -m http.server 8000 &),
   and host the bootstrap.py file, and then point the DHCP server to download from this server location.

4. Host the script on a TFTP server locally and direct the DHCP server to point to the bootstrap script via option-67/bootfile-name option:

   For example:
   subnet 10.10.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
   range 10.10.1.1 10.10.1.253;
   option domain-name "dev.aristanetworks.com";
   option routers 10.10.1.250;
   option domain-name-servers 10.10.1.5;
   option ntp-servers time.google.com;
   host leaf-1A {
   hardware ethernet fc:bd:67:aa:22:33;
   fixed-address 10.10.1.180;
   option host-name "leaf-1A";
   option bootfile-name "http://10.10.1.10:8000/bootstrap.py";
   }

   Note: Make sure the ntp-servers option is set in your DHCP configuration.
5. Boot up the switch into ZTP provisioning mode.

The onboarding process begins and the successfully onboarded switches are displayed under Monitor > Wired > Managed Switches tab.

Note: You can use the same bootstrap script and token to onboard multiple switches. Ensure that the token has not expired before proceeding.

Onboarding Switches Manually

You can onboard switches manually to CV-CUE. The onboarded switches show up as Managed Switches in CV-CUE.

To onboard switches manually:

1. Go to SYSTEM > Advanced Settings.
2. Click Switch Onboarding.
3. Follow the instructions shown.
   
   

Note: You can use the same token to onboard multiple switches in one go.

Onboarded switches are available under Monitor > Wired > Managed Switches tab.All the managed switches when first identified are deployed in the staging environment.