Arista EOS Central - Category - CloudVision Portal

Sending Telemetry Data from TerminAttr to Multiple CVP instances

Posted on March 11, 2020 by Hugh Adams | 1696 Views

Sending Telemetry Data from TerminAttr to Multiple CVP instances Overview This article will explore the ability of the CloudVision Telemetry agent to send data to more than one CloudVision Portal (CVP) instance or CloudVision and a third party application. The configuration used in this lab was also used as part of the “Synchronising CloudVision Portal Configlets with Ansible” POC lab to enable both CloudVision instances to receive Telemetry data from all the switches. The article for “Synchronising CloudVision Portal Configlets with Ansible” can be found here : https://eos.arista.com/synchronising-cloudvision-portal-configlets-with-ansible/ Introduction The Proof of Concept Lab created to demonstrate...
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Using the CloudVision API with Service Accounts

Posted on March 31, 2021 by Jonathan Smith | 214 Views

Description With the release of CloudVision Portal 2020.3, you have the ability to create Service Accounts. I won’t show you how to create a Service Account, but you can go to this TOI to read about that. This article will show you how to use Service Account Tokens in Python and cURL for API calls. Platform Compatibility This applies to both CVaaS and on-premise installations. How To Using a Service Account Token allows you to bypass the standard authentication process when making API calls. It also allows you to create a local “account” on CloudVision that doesn’t depend on outside authentication...
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Pushing a Python Script to Devices Using CVP (SWIX)

Posted on February 10, 2021 by Michael Tindall | 415 Views

Introduction In a previous article, I discussed how to push a simple Python script to managed devices with CVP through a configlet. In this article, I will show how to create and install an extension with the same python hello script through an image bundle in CVP. This method is useful if the script is very long and/or has dependencies. Packaging the Script Into an RPM First, we will need to build an RPM to package the python script. We can do this from a linux host with RPMBuild. I also highly recommend taking a look at this guide...
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Pushing a Python Script to Devices Using CVP (Configlet)

Posted on February 10, 2021 by Michael Tindall | 349 Views

Introduction This method is useful for pushing simple scripts to managed devices in CVP. This is not suitable for long scripts or scripts with dependencies. It may work, but creating extensions is a far more structured approach which I talk about here. Creating the Configlet We will use an event-handler to assist us in creating the script on the switch due to its ability to execute multiple line bash commands. We are not able to use bash commands natively in CVP configlets. To start the simple method, create the configlet based on the below example from Provisionsing>Configlets. event-handler hello...
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CloudVision Event Guide

Posted on December 18, 2020 by Upasana Dangi | 671 Views

Overview This article identifies some of the common CloudVision Events and provides information regarding the events themselves or references to troubleshoot the underlying cause of the events. CVP Events BUGALERTS_CVE_EXPOSED Explanation: CVP detected a potential CVE on the switches. For more information, please visit https://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices. CONNECTIVITY_MONITOR_ANOMALY Explanation: The cloudtracer latency anomaly event monitors the latency metric between devices and configured hosts. CVP detected a deviation in these metrics from the historical bounds. For more information, please visit https://eos.arista.com/toi/cvp-2020-1-0/events/#CloudTracer_Latency_Anomaly_Events. LOW_DEVICE_DISK_SPACE Explanation: CVP detected that the filesystem space on a device is below the set threshold. To debug possible causes for the...
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CloudVision Appliance Deployment Recommendations (DCA-200-CV)

Posted on May 4, 2020 by Naveen Kumar Devaraj | 1548 Views

CloudVision Appliance (CVA) Introduction CloudVision Appliance (DCA-200-CV) is a physical appliance that runs CentOS base image and hosts one instance of each CloudVision Portal (CVP) and CloudVision eXchange (CVX) using KVM hypervisor. It comes with 4X1G NICs and a separate 1G NIC for iDRAC. The virtual NICs on CVP, CVX VMs are mapped to the physical NICs 1-4 as follows: CloudVision Appliance quick start guide can be found here. Deployment Recommendations 1. Ensure that you are running the latest version of the host image; this provides updated OS packages and security patches. The current version of the host image can...
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Synchronising CloudVision Portal Configlets with Ansible

Posted on February 19, 2020 by Hugh Adams | 2111 Views

Introduction As customers deploy Arista devices across multiple locations it becomes important to consider where and how these are managed. In most circumstances more than one instance of CloudVision Portal (CVP) will be required as this allows for multiple fault domains and redundancy within the management plane. This article will explore the use of the Arista CloudVision Ansible modules to synchronise a designated set of CVP Configlets across multiple CVP instances. This ability to synchronise Configlets provides an efficient way of ensuring organisational policies and security requirements can be quickly deployed across an entire Arista estate in a consistent automated...
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CVP TIP – Encrypt local username passwords with Configlet Builder

Posted on March 20, 2019 by Markku Rantanen | 1338 Views

Introduction Arista CloudVision Portal (CVP) uses configlets to create configuration snippets for individual or groups of switches based on user selection. These configlets can be either static or dynamic. Static configlets include static EOS CLI configuration statements as if they were right on the switch configuration file. These configlets are used to create the full configuration for the network switches. An example of a static configlet in Arista CloudVision Portal: Below example is a static Arista EOS CLI configuration. These small pieces of configuration snippets can be applied as configlets in Network Provisioning view to selected device or devices....
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Using CloudVision Portal to Manage Arista AnyCloud

Posted on February 4, 2019 by Michael Sparacio | 476 Views

Introduction There are many advantages to using Arista’s vEOS Router and CloudVision Portal (CVP) in hybrid cloud environments. Among those advantages are: Arista EOS is a proven and stable network operating system used in some of the largest networks in the world. The same EOS that runs on our physical switches also runs in the public cloud. CloudVision Portal provides a common management model for network devices whether running in a customer’s private data center or in public cloud environments. CloudVision Portal provides turn-key automation and real-time telemetry across private and public cloud environments. One of the primary challenges to...
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CloudVision Appliance Deployment Recommendations (DCA-100-CV)

Posted on October 19, 2018 by Naveen Kumar Devaraj | 1893 Views

DCA-CV-100 is end of sale as of March 2019, please refer to this link for an updated article covering DCA-CV-200. CloudVision Appliance Introduction CloudVision Appliance (DCA-100-CV) is a physical appliance that runs CentOS base image and hosts one instance of each CloudVision Portal (CVP) and CloudVision eXchange (CVX) using KVM hypervisor. It comes with 4X1G NICs. The virtual NICs on CVP, CVX VMs are mapped to the physical NICs 1-4 as follows: For additional details, refer to CloudVision Appliance quick start guide here. Deployment Recommendations 1. Ensure that you are running the latest version of the host image; this provides...
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An Exercise in Troubleshooting With CVP Telemetry

Posted on September 25, 2018 by Brian | 1682 Views

In a previous post, I demonstrated the ability of CVP Telemetry to do automatic analytics and event correlation. While each release of CVP includes additional analytic, event correlation, and visualization capabilities, there are still situations for which there is not yet automatic correlation. In this post, we are going to investigate a network problem and identify the root cause using telemetry data. The lab topology is a layer3 spine-leaf topology with 2 spines and 6 leafs configured as 3 MLAG pairs. As stated in the previous post, Cloud Tracer is a very useful tool for tracking the operational status of...
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Provisioning Cloud Vision Portal on AWS

Posted on August 21, 2018 by Shalin Shah | 745 Views

Introduction This article demonstrates provisioning CloudVision Portal on AWS. With the release of CVP version 2018.x and upgrade of CVP platform to CentoOS 7.4, Cloud Vision Portal can be installed on CentOs servers with an RPM based script. This article specifically covers provisioning of CVP on the AWS EC2 Cloud platform. With CVP running on AWS users can easily manage AWS/OnPrem EOS instances from AWS and run analysis on CVP Telemetry/Compliance information with other AWS services and tools. Pre-Requisites 1) AWS account with appropriate privileges to create and access EC2 instances, DNS and NTP services. 2) Access to Arista.com Software...
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Automating L3 EVPN instances deployment using CloudVision Portal

Posted on March 5, 2018 by Patrik Olsson | 1043 Views

The intention of this article is to show how CloudVision Portal can be used to deploy L3 EVPN instances on one switch, or many switches, using a CloudVision Portal configlet builder. A complete demonstration of how CloudVision Portal is used to deploy an EVPN instance and EVPN fabric can be found here The configlet builder example provided on the GitHub Arista repo covers L3 EVPN deployments using physical interfaces as SVI as CE facing interface. The configlet builder example can be used on top of any EVPN underlay and overlay. Below is a step by step procedure which describes how to import...
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CloudVisionPortal – Open-VM-Tools

Posted on February 27, 2018 by Ryan | 418 Views

Open-VM-Tools is an open source add-on that allows for graceful startup & shutdown of Cloud Vision Portal. This allows for graceful startup and shutdown of CVP Virtual Machines with the ESXi manager. Further information and latest version can be found in the link belowhttps://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools Note: The open-vm-tools package is only supported on Cloud Vision Portal. Open-vm-tools on Cloud Vision Exchange (CVX) or EOS vRouter is not supported at this time. Enabling Open-VM-ToolsStarting in CVP version 2017.2.3 the open-vm-tools package is available to be enabled on Cloud Vision Portal Instances. In order to enable the package: either SSH or login to the...
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Automating EVPN fabric deployment using CVP

Posted on February 22, 2018 by Patrik Olsson | 1071 Views

To simplify and speed up the deployment of an EVPN fabric, CloudVision Portal can be a powerful tool to work with. The intention of this post is to divide this up into steps to simplify, qualify the actions steps needed and provide an example CloudVision Portal configlet builder to execute needed tasks in CloudVision. A complete demonstration of how CloudVision Portal is used to deploy an EVPN instance and EVPN fabric can be found here First of all, there needs to be a decision of which deployment model of EVPN underlay and overlay that suits the particular deployment being worked on....
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Automating L2 EVPN instances deployment using CloudVision Portal

Posted on February 16, 2018 by Patrik Olsson | 708 Views

The intention of this article is to show how CloudVision Portal can be used to deploy L2 EVPN instances on one switch, or many switches, using a CloudVision Portal configlet builder. A complete demonstration of how CloudVision Portal is used to deploy an EVPN instance and EVPN fabric can be found here The configlet builder example provided at GitHub Arista repo covers L2 EVPN deployments using MLAG, single interface, VLAN trunk, access VLAN, symmetric routing and asymmetric routing. The configlet builder example can be used on top of any EVPN underlay and overlay. Below is a step by step procedure is...
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CloudVision Portal RESTful API Client

Posted on September 25, 2017 by Matthew Hartzel Hartzel | 6014 Views

Arista Cloudvision® Portal (CVP) provides a central point of management for Arista network switches through shared snippets of configuration (configlets) enabling Network Engineers to provision the network more consistently and efficiently. While CVP highlights a graphical user interface for configuration and management of devices, it also includes a full-featured RESTful API that provides all of the same functionality available via the GUI which can be used to automate workflows and integrate with other tools. CVPRAC is a wrapper client for CVP’s RESTful APIs which greatly simplifies usage of the API and more elegantly handles the connections to the CVP nodes....
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CVP APIs: A Non-Programmer’s Guide

Posted on August 31, 2017 by Olufemi Komolafe | 2109 Views

1. What are CVP APIs? Most CloudVision Portal (CVP) users are familiar with the web user interface (UI) that facilitates network provisioning, inventory management, tasks management, change control and so on. CVP application programming interfaces (APIs) offer an alternative means of realizing the same functionality. The key difference is that, with the CVP APIs, the functionality is realized over a programmatic interface (i.e typically by a piece of software communicating with another piece of software) rather than by a user navigating over a web page and clicking and/or typing. Figure 1 shows a simplified example of these two methods of...
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Configure Linux or Microsoft DHCP Server for ZTP using CloudVision

Posted on August 18, 2017 by William | 843 Views

Configure Linux or Microsoft DHCP for ZTP using CloudVision Summary One of the many features CloudVision offers along with Configuration management, image management, Telemetry, and Change Management includes Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) and Zero Touch Replacement (ZTR). Users can either use the preinstalled DHCP server on the CloudVIsion server’s bash or use any other DHCP server like Microsoft Windows. In this article, we will outline the steps required to get DHCP working on both the Linux and Microsoft platform as well as basic steps to provision a new switch, and replacement. All this can be done without the...
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Demo: CloudVision skill for Amazon Alexa

Posted on July 7, 2017 by Jere Julian | 3776 Views

Great APIs accelerate development of new applications and integration with existing tools and services. Check out the sample CloudVision skill for Amazon Alexa that the EOS+ Consulting Services team put together one afternoon! Please share and use the comments to tell us about other integrations that you would find interesting and useful!

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