Are there guidelines available how to pre-configure an Arista switch and which minimum privilege level is required, so that our DataMiner connector can retrieve and set all parameters? Our connector uses a mix of protocols, e.g. SNMP, eAPI, syslog etc…
Hi Thomas,
Please find below the most important CLI commands that can be used on Arista eOS switches to allow dataminer to communicate.
You’ll need to make sure the management interface has a valid ip address.
interface management1
ip address 192.168.1.20/24
(note that a default gateway might also need to be defined).
You need to enable the HTTPS management
management api http-commands
protocol https
no shutdown
You need to set a SNMP community string
snmp-server community public
You need to define a username / password
username myuser secret 0 mypass
Finally you’ll need to make sure your changes are saved to the startup config
copy running-config startup-config
- Important note: the user created using the sample commands above will have privilege level 1, mare sure this is compliant with your company security policy.
Hi Thomas,
Our help currently doesn’t have a set of commands/features that need to be enabled on the switch to establish all required communication. The connector will indeed mainly require that SNMP and eAPI communication is enabled.
Note that some functionality, for example setting up receival of sflow, can be configured in the element itself once basic communication has been established.
I did take note of this so we can further improve our documentation.