Dell MX9116n EMC SmartFabric OS10 User Guide - Page 125

8 SmartFabric Director SmartFabric Director manages the switches in a data center with or without any virtual infrastructure. SmartFabric Director provides a single view of operating, managing, and troubleshooting of physical and virtual networks. SmartFabric Director features • Define, build, and maintain a Layer 2 or Layer 3 leaf-spine data center fabric (underlay). • Intent template-based provisioning underlay • Authoritative repository of intent and switch configuration and state • Fabric health management and monitoring including events, logs, alarms, states, and metrics (counters) • Operator-driven remediation • Full life-cycle management of switches including grouping of switches and scheduling of jobs • Uses Openconfig for provisioning and streaming telemetry of switches For more information about SmartFabric Director, see Dell EMC SmartFabric Director User Guide. Enable SmartFabric Director mode on a switch To enable the SmartFabric Director mode in the switch, use switch-operating-mode command. For more information, see switchoperating-mode. Support for SmartFabric Director SmartFabric Director uses gRPC Network Management Interface agent (gNMI) agent and lifecycle management to provision and stream telemetry data for switches. OS10 supports: • gNMI agent that enables the telemetry agent to transmit pre-configured sensor groups data to the SmartFabric Director. For more information about gNMI agent, see gNMI agent. • Google Network Operating Interface (gNOI) APIs to enable lifecycle management using SmartFabric Director. For more information, see Lifecycle management. gRPC Network Management Interface agent The gNMI agent, available with OS10 release 10.5.0.1 and later, provides a new interface to configure OS10 device. It uses gNMI protocol and Openconfig Yang models to support Create, Read, Update and Delete (CRUD) operations, life-cycle management through gNOI and configuration of streaming telemetry. The gNMI agent listens to the SmartFabric director to receive remote configuration-change requests or upgrade and downgrade instructions. As a part of these remote configuration changes, the gNMI agent enables the telemetry agent to transmit pre-configured sensor groups data in the OpenConfig format to the SmartFabric director. For more information about pre-configured sensor groups, see Configure telemetry. Set security profile to gNMI agent Before establishing a connection to the gNMI client in SmartFabric director, set a valid application-specific security profile for the gNMI agent. Also, configure an FQDN or an IP address for entry to the SmartFabric director server; assign client and CA certificates. A user role in SmartFabric director with Super Admin privileges can be used to access the agent. The security profile that is assigned to the gNMI agent must be pre-configured on the switch. The security profile is configured using the crypto security-profile command. SmartFabric Director 125