Legacy Open Mesh: Switches: Switch Templates

Topic

This article describes how to configure and apply switch templates for expedited configuration.

Environment

• Open Mesh Switches

Description

Switch Templates are settings templates you can apply to any switch in your network. You can use these templates to apply new settings when a switch moves to a new location or to add a new switch with a specific configuration.

Procedure

Configuring Template Settings

1. Navigate to Manage ? Switches and select a switch.

If this is your first device and network, follow the steps for adding a network to your account before proceeding.

2. Click the Manage drop-down menu, then click Switches.

Figure 1: The Manage drop-down menu

3. Click Manage Templates.

Figure 2: Manage templates

4. Enter the template name, a brief description of your template, and an attributed switch Model.

Figure 3: Template descriptors

5. You can also use the Import Configuration From field to specify configuration settings from a previously added switch.

Figure 4: Import settings

6. Select the switch settings to enable on your template. If a setting is neither enabled or disabled, it will remain unchanged when the template is applied. You can enable the following settings:

• Spanning Tree Protocol
• LLDP
• Voice VLAN
• Quality of Service (QoS)
• Access Control List (ACL)
• IGMP Snooping
• Jumbo Frames
• SNMP
• Monitor Only: When enabled, no configuration from the cloud will be sent to the switch.

Switch Settings

Figure 5: Switch settings

Port Settings

The following template example uses the E24v3 model. Select a port to configure it, or select multiple ports to mirror or aggregate them. See the Port Settings article for more information on configurable port settings.

Figure 6: Port settings

7. Click Save Template to save this template for future application.

Figure 7: Save template

Applying a switch template

After configuring a switch template, you can apply it to any switch. You can either click Apply Template in the Switches page or apply a template setting when adding a new switch.

Figure 8: Apply template