AmpCon™-DC is built on Ubuntu Linux and incorporates a web GUI and a MySQL database with Python codes built on top of an Ansible engine. Switches and AmpCon-DC communicate with the SSH protocol. AmpCon-DC gets switch statistics stats through gNMI.
AmpCon-DC workflow
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The AmpCon-DC server includes a component called the Configuration Manager. Your network team uses it to create a standard configuration to be deployed on all configure switches, along with any site region-specific variations. All configurations are tied to specific switches by the switch serial number (or Service Tag) and stored in a database.
After registering with the AmpCon-DC server, each switch then downloads its appropriate configurationconfigurations. At the same time, the switch will access accesses another AmpCon-DC server component, the License Manager, which will access accesses the customer’s account on the Pica8 License Portal to generate a license key and install the license on the switch.
The switch runs a script to automatically reboot, apply and validate the new configurationconfigurations, update its status in the configuration database, and join the network. From your perspective, all of this switch configuration happens these switch configurations happen with the touch of a button – as close to “zero-touch provisioning”. in the AmpCon-DC UI. You can use AmpCon-DC can help you to deploy dozens or hundreds of switches to far-flung sites while your network team stays at home and monitors the process centrally.
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