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Selective Onboarding of a Device

In this procedure, we will add a leaf device to the DC2 data center fabric.

To onboard a device:

  1. Select Fabrics, and then select the fabric to which you want to add the leaf device.
    Contrail Command interface showing Fabrics tab with DC1 and DC2 fabric names for network management.
  2. Select Action > Brownfield Wizard.
    Contrail Command UI showing the Fabric Devices section under Infrastructure > Fabrics > DC2 menu with device details like status, name, management IP, vendor, and role.

    The device configuration screen appears.

    Create Fabric interface in Juniper Networks Contrail Command, showing step 1 of 4 for creating network fabrics with fabric name DC2 and overlay ASN 65200.
  3. Fill in the following fields and click Next..

    Field

    Value Used in This Example

    Name

    DC1

    Overlay ASN (IBGP)

    65100

    Node Profiles

    Default, which selects all device types

    VLAN-ID Fabric-Wide Significance

    Box is checked

    Device credentials

    Username: lab

    Password: ******

    Management subnets

    CIDR: 10.1.2.0/24
  4. Click Next and then click Finish.

    The device discovery process begins.

    Contrail Command interface showing fabric creation steps with Device Discovery highlighted, listing discovered devices with details like name, IP, model, status, and interfaces.
  5. Configure CRB-Access as the role for the leaf device.
    User interface of Contrail Command software with dropdown menu options like CRB-Gateway and Route-Reflector. Buttons Cancel and Assign for network configuration roles. Sidebar with sections Monitoring, Infrastructure, and Overlay.
  6. Click Assign.
  7. Click AutoConfigure.
    Autoconfigure progress screen showing task completion for DC2 with options to Cancel, Proceed to Servers Discovery, or Finish.