Arista NetVisor UNUM 6.3.2

Fabric and Network Settings

Enabling Web Access on NetVisor OS

If you use ZTP (Zero Touch Provisioning) to deploy NetVisor OS on your switches, Web / Rest services are automatically configured.

If you do not use ZTP to deploy NetVisor OS, you must activate Web / Rest services on the switch management or data interface connected to NetVisor UNUM using the CLI, on each switch in the fabric:

Out-of-Band Management

Use the following command:

CLI (network-admin@pubdev02) > admin-service-modify if mgmt web

InBand Management

Use the following command:

CLI (network-admin@pubdev02) > admin-service-modify if data web

For more information on configuring Inband Management refer to NetVisor UNUM Inband Connection and Configuration in this guide.

Enabling sFlow on NetVisor OS

Note: As of July 2021, sFlow is no longer supported.

For more information on configuring administrative services, sFlow, and vCenter Connection service, refer to the NetVisor OS Configuration Guides. 

Enabling vCenter Service on NetVisor OS

For more information on configuring administrative services, sFlow, and vCenter Connection service, refer to the NetVisor OS Configuration Guides. 

Performance Tuning NetVisor OS for Maximizing Connections for NetVisor UNUM

On each switch in the fabric that is seeing traffic and to maximize the connections pulled from NetVisor UNUM Insight Analytics Flow, the following parameters should be modified:

NetVisor OS:

connection-stats-settings-modify connection-stats-log-disk-space 50M 

connection-stats-settings-modify connection-max-memory 50M

Monitoring Third Party Switches

If you want NetVisor UNUM Insight Analytics Flow to monitor a third-party switch, use the following steps to configure the port on the Arista Networks switch that is directly connected to the third-party switch:

1.Configure the mirror parameter for the port entering the following command: 

network-admin@switch-name>port-config-modify port port-number mirror-only

2.Block STP on the port entering the following command: 

stp-port-modify port [x] block

Firewall Settings

Open the following TCP/UDP ports when NetVisor UNUM is behind a Firewall or in a security DMZ: