Auto-Provisioning Policies

Wireless devices can adopt and manage other wireless devices. For example, a wireless controller can adopt any number of access points. When a device is adopted, the device configuration is provisioned by the adopting device. Since multiple configuration policies are supported, an adopting device needs to define which configuration policies are used for a given adoptee. Auto-Provisioning Policies determine which configuration policies are applied to an adoptee based its properties. For example, a configuration policy could be assigned based on MAC address, IP address, CDP snoop strings, etc.

Once created an Auto-Provisioning policy can be used in profiles or device configuration objects. An Auto-Provisioning policy contains a set of ordered by precedence rules that either deny or allow adoption based on potential adoptee properties and a catch-all variable that determines if the adoption should be allowed when none of the rules is matched. All rules (both deny and allow) are evaluated sequentially starting with the rule with the lowest precedence. The evaluation stops as soon as a rule has been matched, no attempt is made to find a better match further down in the set.

The evaluation is performed using various matching criteria. The matching criteria supported include: