Onboard Switches to Mist Cloud
Ignore the steps in this topic if your switches are already onboarded to the Mist cloud.
To configure and manage a switch through Juniper Mist cloud, you must ensure that the switch is added to the Mist cloud. To see the switch models supported by Mist, visit Juniper Mist Supported Hardware.
You can add greenfield or brownfield switches to the Mist cloud.
In this context, greenfield switches are new cloud-ready switches, while brownfield switches are the switches that are being brought into the Juniper Mist cloud architecture from a previous deployment.
Switch Onboarding Prerequisites
Before you onboard a switch:
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Ensure that you have a Juniper Mist Wired Assurance Subscription, and login credentials for the Juniper Mist portal. To get started with Mist, follow the instructions in Quick Start: Mist.
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Ensure that the switch is connected to a DNS server (an NTP server is also recommended), and is able to connect to the Juniper Mist cloud architecture over the Internet.
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If there is a firewall between the cloud and the switch, allow outbound access on TCP port 2200 to the management port of the switch.
Onboard a Greenfield Switch
You can onboard a single greenfield, cloud-ready switch to the Mist cloud via the Mist AI Mobile App. However, if want to onboard multiple cloud-ready switches together, you can do that via the Juniper Mist portal, by using the activation code associated with the purchase order.
To onboard a greenfield switch, follow the instructions in Quick Start: Cloud-Ready EX and QFX Switches with Mist.
Onboard a Brownfield Switch
It is important to back up your existing Junos OS configuration on the switch
before activating a brownfield switch because when the switch is adopted for
management from the Juniper Mist cloud, the old configuration is replaced. Back
up your existing Junos OS configuration by running the request system
software configuration-backup (path)
command, which saves the
currently active configuration and any installation-specific parameters.
In this procedure, you will make a few configuration changes to the Juniper Mist portal, and some to the switch using the Junos OS CLI. Be sure you can log in to both systems.
To onboard a brownfield switch to the Mist cloud: