Wired Assurance: Day 1 - Dynamic Port Profiles (Colorless Ports)

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0:06 wired assurance offers dynamic port

0:08 profiles

0:09 so you can simply plug in your device

0:11 and it'll automatically be assigned the

0:13 appropriate profile

0:15 this is also referred to as the

0:16 provisioning of colorless ports

0:19 in this example we have a juniper ap

0:21 assigned to port 5.

0:23 we also created a port profile called

0:25 minimal access that has

0:26 access to a guest network on vlan 99

0:30 based on what the devices identify

0:32 themselves as we can create rules

0:34 to assign profiles we'll use the lldp

0:37 chassis id

0:38 to identify the device and if it starts

0:41 with the octet

0:42 d4 20b it will be given the ap12 profile

0:49 so what we just did is set the dynamic

0:51 profile assignment for port 5.

0:54 if the wired device does not register as

0:56 an ap12

0:57 then it will get the minimal access

0:59 profile if it shows as an ap 12

1:02 then it gets the ap12 profile

1:07 to verify that the port was assigned the

1:09 right profile take a look at the switch

1:11 events log

1:13 you can see that the ap12 profile was

1:16 correctly identified and

1:17 automatically applied to port 5. dynamic

1:20 port profiles are not just limited to

1:22 juniper devices alone

1:24 anything based on lldp or radius name

1:27 also falls under the domain of dynamic

1:29 port profiles

1:31 this means that the days of manually

1:33 assigning profiles to ports or even a

1:35 range of ports are no longer necessary

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