Technical Documentation

Applying Port Profiles to a Port

When you select a port profile and apply it to a port on a device, Junos Space modifies the configuration of that port according to the port profile that was applied to it. 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.

To provision a desktop port profile to a device port, follow these steps:

  1. From the task ribbon, select EZ Campus Design > Provision Port Profile. The Provision Port Profile page appears displaying all the available devices arranged according to device name, OS version, platform, device IP address, connection status, and managed status, as shown in the following figure.
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  2. Select the device(s) to which you want to a provision a port profile, and click Provision Port Profile. To select only one device, click Single, select the device that you want to provision the profile to, and click Provision Port Profile. The Provision Port Profile dialog box appears as shown in the following figure.
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  3. In addition to selecting multiple devices from the device list on the Provision Port Profile main page, you can also add devices to the Selected Devices list by clicking +. The Add Devices to the Selected List dialog box appears. Select the device(s) from the Add Devices to the Selected List. These device(s) appear in the Selected Devices panel. The maximum number of devices that you can select for provisioning is 50.
    If you want to delete a device from the Selected Devices panel, select the device that you want to delete, and click x to remove the device from the list.

    You can also choose to group the devices by their model number. To group devices according to their model number, click Group. As shown in the following figure, the Group option allows you to apply port profiles to any number of devices that belong to the same platform (for example, EX3200), by configuring a single chassis model.

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    Note: The facility to add more devices to the Selected Devices list in the current workflow is disabled when you select the Group option.

    Any configuration that you make at the group level overrides the existing device level configurations.

  4. Select the device whose ports you want to configure from the device list on the left pane. A graphical representation of the device and its ports appears on the right side of the window.
  5. Select the port to which you want to provision the port profile and click Configure. The Port Configuration Parameters dialog box opens.

    If you want to simultaneously provision a port profile to a group of ports on the device, click and drag the cursor over the selected ports and click Configure. The Port Configuration Parameters dialog box opens.

  6. From the Profile drop down list, select the port profile that you want to apply to the selected port. The parameters vary depending on the profile that you have selected. The available options are:
  7. After you have selected the parameters, click OK. The provisioned port is now displayed in a different color.

    The Applied Profiles list displays all the profiles that have been applied to the ports of the device. Double click a profile on the Applied Profile list to view the summary of the selected port profile.

    Click View All Profiles to open the Profile Details dialog box which lists out all the available port profiles. Click a port profile to view a description of the port profile along with details about the functions that can be performed by a port that is configured with this profile. An example of the Profile Details dialog box is as follows.


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    To remove a port profile from a port, select the port on the chassis view and click Remove.

  8. If you want schedule the profile provision to a later date and time, select the Schedule Provisioning Later checkbox and select the date from the pop out calendar and the time from the drop down list.
  9. Click Provision to apply the selected profile to the selected ports. If you have selected the Schedule Provisioning Later checkbox, the profile will be provisioned to the ports at the time you specified.

    Note: If there is a conflict between the applied profile and the parameters of the port to which you are applying the profile, a dialog box containing a conflict message is displayed when you click Provision. This dialog box will display a list of all the devices and the conflicts. You can choose to override the existing configuration and apply the profile to the port, or cancel the provisioning job and keep the existing configuration. When you apply a port profile to a port, all existing configurations on the selected port are permanently removed. The selected port will only have the newly applied configuration.

    When you apply a port profile to a device, the CLI commands in the port profile are bundled together and applied to the device ports as a config-group. While checking for conflicts, Junos Space compares the applied port profile configuration with the existing configuration running on the device. If there are any user-defined config-groups applied at the device or interface level, Junos Space will not consider these CLI commands while computing port profile conflicts. For more information on the CLI commands used in port profiles, see Port Profile CLI Reference.

    Click Cancel to go back to the EZ Campus Design workspace.

Published: 2010-03-12