Components used in the Bootz Process
These components are part of the Bootz process.
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Onboarding Device (Router): A router is a Cisco device that you want to provision and connect to your network. Bootz is supported only on platforms that have Hardware TAM1 support.
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DHCP Server: The DHCP server provides the URL where the Bootz process can access the bootstrapping information.
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MASA Server: You can generate and store the ownership voucher in the MASA server. The MASA server sends the ownership voucher to the Bootz server so that the Bootz process validates the device and establishes device ownership.
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Bootz Bootstrap Server: A Bootz Bootstrap server is any gRPC server used as a Bootz bootstrapping data source. For example, Google Proto. The Bootz Bootstrap server is complaint with GitHub's Openconfig Bootz standards.
Note
Bootz only supports a single name-server. As a result, when the DHCP server has more than one server address configured, Bootz fails to apply the server configuration.
The Bootz server contains these artifacts:
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Cisco IOS XR software images: You can download Cisco images, SMU, and patches from the Cisco Support & Downloads page.
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Bootstrapping Data: It is a collection of data that you have created and uploaded to the Bootz server. The router obtains this data from the Bootz server during the provisioning process.
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