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Cisco Switches

Prepare Cisco switch

NetApp Harvest requires login credentials to access Cisco switches. Although, a generic admin account can be used, it is better to create a dedicated monitoring user with read-only permissions.

If you want to create a dedicated monitoring user for Harvest, follow the steps below.

  1. ssh into the switch with a user than can create new users. e.g. ssh admin@switch-ip
  2. Create a new user with read-only permissions by running the following commands. Replace password with a strong password.
configure terminal
username ro_user role network-operator password Netapp123
exit

Enable NX-API on Cisco switch

NetApp Harvest uses NX-API to collect metrics from Cisco switches. You need to enable NX-API on the switch, follow the steps below.

  1. ssh into the switch with a user than can enable NX-API. e.g. ssh admin@switch-ip
  2. Enable NX-API by running the following commands:
configure terminal
feature nxapi
exit

Reference

See Configuring User Accounts and RBAC for more information on Cisco NX-OS user accounts and RBAC.

See NX-OS Programmability Guide for more information on the Cisco NX-API.