Enabling or Disabling Zero Touch Provisioning

ZTP (Zero Touch Provisioning) is enabled by default on PicOS switches.

If ZTP is left enabled, the PicOS switch will try to download a new script every time the switch is booted. This is not a desirable situation, so ZTP should be disabled when it is no longer needed.

There are three methods to disable (or enable) ZTP, as detailed below:

The first method to configure ZTP through the command set system ztp enable <true | false> in PICOS configuration mode. The following example disables ZTP using the command set system ztp enable <true | false>:

admin@XorPlus# set system ztp enable false
admin@XorPlus# commit

The second method to configure ZTP is via the ztp-config script included with PicOS, which uses the Zero Touch Provisioning API. The following example disables ZTP using the ztp-config script run from the Linux shell:

admin@LEAF-A$sudo ztp-config
Please configure the default PicOS ZTP options:
 (Press other key if no change)
    [1]  PicOS ZTP enabled   * default
    [2]  PicOS ZTP disabled
Enter your choice (1,2):2
PicOS ZTP is disabled.

admin@LEAF-A$

The last method requires user to manually edit the PicOS configuration file picos_start.conf and change the value of the ztp_disable variable. The following snippet from the PicOS configuration file shows that ZTP has been disabled (ztp_disable=true).

admin@LEAF-A$more /etc/picos/picos_start.conf | grep ztp
ztp_disable=true

To enable ZTP, user needs to set ztp_disable to false.