Technical Documentation

Port Profile Provisioning Overview

In Junos Space, a port profile is a collection of predefined configuration parameters that can be applied to a port. When you select a port profile and apply it to a port on a device, Junos Space invokes CLI commands to modify the port configuration to the configuration specified in the applied port profile. Once the profile has been applied or provisioned to the port, that port will be able to perform according to the role that was defined in the applied profile.

Junos Space provides a user interface where you can select the port profile and the devices to which you want to provision these profiles. Junos Space devices are displayed on the Provision Port Profile page. You can chose to display the devices either as a table arranged according to device name, OS version, platform, IP address, connection status, and managed status, or as icons, as shown in the following figure.

Note: Port profiles can only be provisioned to EX platform access devices. This feature is only supported for JUNOS Release 9.6 and later. The supported device platforms are:

  • EX3200-24T
  • EX3200-24P
  • EX3200-48T
  • EX3200-48P
  • EX4200-24T
  • EX4200-24P
  • EX4200-24F
  • EX4200-48T
  • EX4200-48P
  • EX2200-24P
  • EX2200-48T
  • EX2200-48P
  • EX2200-24T
  • EX 4200 - Virtual Chassis

Currently, port profile provisioning is not available for link aggregation ports.


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Table 1: Port Profile Column Descriptions

Column Name

Description

Device Name

Displays the host name configured by the user.

OS Version

Displays the version of the Junos operating system that is running on the device.

Platform

Displays the model number of the device. For example. EX 3200-24p

IP Address

Displays the management IP address of the device.

Connection Status

Displays the connection of the device in Junos Space. The possible options and their definitions are:

  • Up— The device is connected to Junos Space. When the connection status is Up, the Managed status can be either Out of Sync, Synchronizing, In Sync, or Sync Failed.
  • Down— The device is not connected to the Junos Space platform or that an event has occurred, either due to administrative intervention or automatically by the flow of a type of traffic, which disconnected the device. When Connection status is down, the managed status can be either None or Connecting.

Managed Status

Displays the status of the devices that are managed in Junos Space. The possible options and their definitions are:

  • Connecting— Junos Space has sent a connection remote procedure call (RPC) and is waiting for the first connection from the device.
  • In Sync— Junos Space and the device are synchronized.
  • None— Although the device was discovered, Junos Space had not sent the connection RPC yet.
  • Out of Sync— Although the device has connected to Junos Space, the sync operation was not initiated.
  • Synchronizing— The sync operation has started either because of device discovery, a manual re-sync operation, or an automatic re-sync operation.
  • Sync Failed - This means that the sync operation has failed.

Note: You cannot provision to a device whose Managed Status is Sync Failed.

The Junos Space user interface also provides you with a facility to display the ports graphically, as shown in the following figure. This chassis view is a high-level, graphical view of the selected device to which you want to apply the port profile. The chassis view shows the dynamic display of all the profiles that have been applied to the ports of that device. Ports that have been configured with port profiles are displayed in different colors. You can use this representation to select the port(s) to which you want to apply a port profile.


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The devices whose ports are to be provisioned to, are displayed on the left side of the screen. By default, Junos Space displays the graphical representation that is the. chassis view for the first device on the device list.

You can choose to view these devices individually or grouped according to model number. The Group option helps you apply port profiles to any number of devices belongs to the same platform (for example, EX3200), by simply configuring a single chassis model.

For example, if you want to configure all the EX3200-48T devices in a large branch office or headquarter campus network with certain specified port profiles, you can click the Group button, select EX3200-48T from the Device list on the left side of the screen, and follow the steps given in Applying Port Profiles to a Port. When you click Provision, all the EX3200-48T devices in that campus network are configured according to the port profiles you had selected.

Note: Any configuration that you make at the group level overrides the existing device level configurations. Similarly, any configuration that you make at the device level overrides the existing group level configurations.

Published: 2010-03-12