automation

2018/12/31
in cisco, catalyst, iosxe, automation
5 min read

Cisco EEM: Auto Interface Descriptions

These are my own versions of the ever-evolving Port Description EEM applet for Cisco IOS/IOS-XE; based on Joe Clarke's Cisco Communities thread, Automatically Set Port Descriptions.

2018/11/08
in cisco, catalyst, ios xe, stack, automation
12 min read

Cisco Smart Install - IOS-XE Stack Auto-Allocation

This was created for and used with FreeZTP, but can likely be used with any Jinja2 templating system.

When this snippet (located at the bottom of this post) is added to a Jinja2 template it will automatically build out an EEM applet that will set switch priorities and renumber all switches in the stack according to how they were allocated in the FreeZTP keystore.

2018/10/08
in cisco, catalyst, ios xe, upgrade, automation
9 min read

Cisco Smart Install - IOS-XE Upgrade Caveat

This was created for and used with FreeZTP, but can likely be used with any Jinja2 templating system.

IOS-XE 3.7.4 cannot upgrade to 16.3.6 via smart-install because new force isn't appended. This workaround utilizes EEM applets in a Jinja2 switch template to download install the updated image.