Is this a valid direct upgrade path from 2018.2.5 directly to 2020.2.1 ? I just received shipment of a brand spanking new DCA-200 “appliance” aka, Dell server. It came pre-loaded with CVP 2018.2.5 and we need to run 2020.2.1
Hi master. My customer has infrastructure Arista 2spine and 4leaf. They want to deploy new firewall Fortigate HA = 2 unit and Cloudvison appliance with MSS features. I’m reading and learn concept mss configuration on cvx and Fortigate, but there is something I’m not understanding about config mss on cvx. Arista Macro Segmentation Service integration with Fortinet Firewalls The link at the top, define command on cvx “type Fortinet fortimanager”My customer asks for me, how about not used /without the fortimanager? It is can used mss features, configuration or not? Please advise and share your experience and link recommended. Thanks Robma bayu
Hello, Always the change controls are failing after message “Waiting up to 900 seconds for Terminattr update from: “ But the actual config is updated on the switch and it is streaming properly. Any specific reason for this and how to troubleshoot this?
Is there a way to control the name of configlets generated by configlet builders? Example: Name of Configlet Builder: “configlet-builder-xyz” When configlets are generated by this they are automatically named : “configlet-builder-xyz_IP-ADDRESS-OF-SWITCH_1“ I would like to be able to dictate the name of the generated configlets, ideally with variables contained in the configlet builder itself. I do see that it seems possible to rename them after they are generated, however I would like to avoid that manual step if possible.
Is there a way to use a Editor/IDE such as Sublime, PyCharm to Modify and/or deploy Configlets to CVP? I am currently using the Configlet Web Interface and my Configlets are getting bigger. I’d like to try to use an Editor/IDE to edit my Configlets. If you are using an any IDE for CVP Configlets I’d like to hear about your workflow. If you transfer Configlets to CVP via SSH, SFTP or other methods I’d be interested in how you accomplish this. Thanks in advance, Neal
Good day, I want to know whether CVP can verify configuration out of sync in real time. I think CVP can verify configuration out of sync once i check the device’s config manually. (provisioning tab -> right click to device -> view -> config ->back) Can i check the configuration out of sync automatically in real time on CVP?
Introduction Proxmox is an open source server virtualization solution based on QEMU/KVM and LXC. You can manage virtual machines, containers, high availability clusters, storage and networks with an integrated, easy-to-use web interface or via CLI. The purpose of this article is to assist in deployment of Arista’s Cloudvision Portal (CVP) within Proxmox VE. The benefit of utilizing CVP within Proxmox VE is that it offers an open source, subscription free option for those who may not be able to afford proper VMware licensing for lab/demo deployments and/or would like to utilize the rich, open source feature set provided by Proxmox...
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Introduction With the 2018 release we introduced an installer script for CVP. The script will install CVP RPMs and initialize system services. The installer will deliver all packages to make a script-installed system identical to the corresponding OVA. Requirements Operating System CVP Version CentOS Version ISO filename 2018.2.0 – 2018.2.2 CentOS Minimal 7.5.1804 CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1804.iso 2018.2.3 – 2020.1.1 CentOS Minimal 7.6.1810 CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1810.iso 2020.2.x CentOS Minimal 7.7.1908 CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1908.iso Please do not update packages after minimal installation, the installer ships with all required updated RPMs. Installation may fail if packages not delivered by minimal install are found. Resources As of 2019.1.0 four types...
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Campus Introduction CloudVision offers a number of Campus related features. We introduce these features and show how they can be helpful from a management standpoint while operating your network. Connected Endpoints CloudVision leverages DHCP based discovery to identify and fingerprint connected end points.
Device Page Overview Learn how to navigate the Devices page. We go over basic network inventory, device details, and CloudVision’s Device comparison tool which allows users to look at different device details side by side at different moments in time. Configuring Events Notifications Configure events notifications and integrate w/ 3rd party platforms (i.e. Slack, SMTP Server, WeChat, PagerDuty, etc) Cloud Tracer Discover CloudVision’s CloudTracer application. CloudTracer can serve as method to monitor connections that link distant parts of your network, give insight into application sensitive traffic, and even provide anomaly detection when a link sees some unusual traffic...
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Compliance Overview This video provides an overview of ‘Compliance’ in the context of CloudVision. It covers compliance checks and steps to get your network in a state of compliance. Compliance Dashboard CloudVision’s Compliance Dashboard gives users a network wide view of device exposure and device configuration status. Take a look at how Compliance Dashboard can make you aware of any potential bugs impacting devices or misconfigurations in a single window in your web browser. Compliance Token Generation This video provides insight into setting up CloudVision Portal to automatically get updates from www.arista.com for the latest on bugs and...
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Change Control Overview A Change Control is used to make changes to devices in your network. This video provides an overview of the basic components of change controls and different actions that can be taken while making changes to EOS devices in your network. Configuring and Applying Snapshots Snapshots give us a picture of the state of devices at a select moment in time. Find out how to create different snapshots in CloudVision and apply them to devices in your network. Additionally, learn how to reference snapshots in change controls to view particular switch state pre and post configuration/image...
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Onboarding Devices to CVP This video introduces the basics of onboarding existing devices in your network to CloudVision Portal and set up Zero-Touch Provisioning day 0 provisioning Provisioning Overview One of the key features CloudVision offers is Device Provisioning. We go over how provisioning is accomplished in CloudVision and how to actually configure devices in your network using CloudVision Provisioning – Containers Containers are a way to simplify device configuration by device role in the network. A carefully thought out container structure can make provisioning easier and faster. We go over basic strategy regarding container hierarchy and common...
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This list of videos focusses on system functions such as install, setup and upgrade for CloudVision Portal. Deploying CVP on ESX and as RPM This videos describes the different requirements for a CloudVision instance and the process of installing CloudVision Portal on ESX or as an RPM TOI for RPM based install AAA server integrations This video describes how to set up AAA authentication and authorization in the Settings page of CloudVision. Learn how to add and define roles in CloudVision and where to find documentation to link roles added in CloudVision with profiles defined in your network’s AAA...
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This TOI captures new categories of events that have been added in CVP release 20202.1.0. Network Constraint Events Network Constraints refers to a group of new events that are aimed at validating network design rules. For example: All leaf-spine links must be 10Gbps A leaf must have at least two spine switches on the layer above it All racks should have redundant TORs MTU settings These events implement the various checks and the specific network/topology is derived based on tags. List of events include: Insufficient Downlink Device Redundancy Insufficient Peer Device Redundancy Insufficient Peer Interface Redundancy Insufficient Uplink Device Redundancy Insufficient...
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Flow Analytics (Beta) NOTE: This is a beta feature in the 2019.1.0 and 2020.10 release and is not enabled by default. In order to enable the Flow Analytics and feature, it is recommended that the minimum VM resources are configured at the recommended minimum for production deployments : CPUs: 28 cores RAM: Recommended 52 GB Disk: 1 TB Viewing Traffic Flows CloudVision’s traffic flows introduced in the 2019.1.0 release of CVP, is a beta feature that analyzes the network traffic routed through a device. You can drill down into the details of network flow activity using bar charts, stacked...
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MAC/IP Address Search (Beta Feature) NOTE: This is a beta feature and is not enabled by default. In order to enable the search feature on multi-node production deployments with a large number of managed devices, it is recommended that the VM resources be configured at the recommended minimum as listed below: CPUs: 28 cores RAM: Recommended 52 GB Disk: 1 TB Search feature lets users search for a MAC or IP address and get back information about the address from MAC table or ARP Table. Enabling Search The feature is disabled by default. In order to enable it, operations need to...
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TOI – Topology View Enhancements This TOI covers the following enhancements to Topology View in the 2020.1.0 release: Visualization for VXLAN tunnels in Topology with the ability to filter based on VNIs Cloud Topology manual layouts VXLAN Overlays and Filters In 2020.1.0, the overlays menu has included a VXLAN option. When selected, this colors each link by associated VNI. Links with multiple associated VNIs are given a distinct color and the list of VNIs can be viewed by hovering over the links to display a tooltip. VXLANs can be filtered by entering the VNIs to be displayed in the “VXLAN...
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Key highlights for the CloudVision Portal release 2020.1.0 are: An updated UI with improved fonts, vibrant colors and consistent navigation Topology View Enhancements – Support for VxLAN tunnel discovery, Cloud Manual topology Layouts Events – Network Constraint Events, CloudTracer events Search (Beta) – Addition of IP address search Enhanced Search in Flow Analytics (Beta) vMotion support for multi-node cluster CVP release 2020.1.0 supports host-to-host vMotion for a multi-node cluster. It is recommended to use vMotion to migrate one node at a time in a multi-node deployment An updated TOI for RPM based install of CVP is available
I was wondering if there any way to execute the reconcile process but backwards; from the switch. I know how to do it from CVP but the plan is to execute remote changes over CLI and then execute the reconcile process to keep consistency between CVP and the switch configuration. Thanks,
