Aeon-ZTPS is a universal Zero-Touch-Provisioning server for data center infrastructure systems. Aeon-ZTPS was developed specifically to address the need for network engineers to bootstrap their datacenter switches without having to deal with the differences in the underlying NOS mechanisms.
Aeon-ZTPS runs as an Ubuntu 16.04LTS server using the Flask framework and a simple SQLite database. The system provides both a REST/JSON API and a GUI. The Aeon-ZTPS can optionally provide the DHCP service (included, but not enabled by default).
The complete documentation for Aeon-ZTPS can be found at Read the Docs. You can also build the docs locally by running "python setup.py build_sphinx" in the project root directory. You can then access the docs by opening the file docs/_build/sphinx/html/index.html.
Questions? Comments? Please feel free to post on the github issues list.
The initial release of the Aeon-ZTP server supports the following NOS/hardware:
| NOS | Hardware | Process |
|---|---|---|
| Cisco NX-OS | 9K and 3K models | POAP |
| Arista EOS | All models | Arista ZTP |
| Cumulus Linux | All models | ONIE and Cumulus AutoProvisioning |
| OpenSwitchOPX | All models | Via register URL |
| Ubuntu Server | 14.04 and 16.04 | Via register URL |
If you are using VirtualBox, you can build and install the Aeon-ZTP server by invoking "vagrant up" from within the install directory after configuring the setup files. For the complete details on the installation process, please refer to the installation guide.
Aeon-ZTPS includes a web-based GUI dashboards to provide visibility into the device bootstrap process. The following illustrates the devices dashboard:
Aeon-ZTPS includes comprehensible logging. The logging dashboard allows you to inspect and filter the various log files that are used by the system:
Aeon-ZTPS includes a REST/JSON based API. The following illustrates the /api/devices output showing the device
ZTP status:
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