Licensing Requirements and Limitations for EasyDeploy

Involved Network Elements

Licensing Requirements

EasyDeploy is a basic feature of a switch and is not under license control.

Feature Support in V200R019C10

All models of S2720, S5700, and S6700 series switches support EasyDeploy.

For details about software mappings, visit Hardware Query Tool and search for the desired product model.

Feature Limitations

• The EasyDeploy cannot be applied on an IPv6 or VPN network.
• EasyDeploy is mutually exclusive with USB-based deployment, SVF, and web initial login mode.
• In the zero touch device deployment or faulty device replacement scenarios, if you log in to a device to be configured through its console interface, the device stops the EasyDeploy process and starts to operate.
• In the zero touch device deployment and faulty device replacement scenarios, EasyDeploy can only run on the service interfaces in the default VLAN.
• In the zero touch device deployment scenario, you can decide whether to specify the configuration file based on actual requirements. If the configuration file is not specified and the upgrade system software is specified, you also need to specify the upgrade version number.
• The option fields or intermediate file method only applies to zero touch device deployment. The Commander method applies to both deployment and maintenance scenarios and therefore is recommended.
• There is no limitation on the network location of the Commander as long as there are reachable routes between the Commander and clients that obtain IP addresses.
• EasyDeploy allows a stack system to act as a client. In this case, the client MAC address is the system MAC address of the stack system, and the client ESN is the ESN of the stack master switch.
• When the EasyDeploy topology collection function is enabled, the Commander that initiates topology collection will receive a large number of protocol packets if the Network Topology Discovery Protocol (NTDP) needs to collect the topology of more than 200 devices. If the rate of NTDP packets exceeds the default committed access rate (CAR), NTDP packets will be dropped. To prevent packet loss from affecting topology collection, you can run the car (attack defense policy view) command to increase the central processor CAR (CPCAR) of NTDP packets.

• Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) encryption

  • On a configured switch, EasyDeploy supports DTLS encryption. By default, DTLS encryption is enabled. In the zero touch device deployment scenario, a switch can be normally deployed regardless of whether DTLS encryption is enabled.

  • If an active/standby switchover occurs on the Commander or between clients when DTLS encryption is enabled, the clients need to go online again. If DTLS encryption is disabled, an active/standby switchover does not affect online management of clients.

  • If a client in a version earlier than V200R010C00 needs to be managed by the Commander in V200R010C00 or a later version and DTLS encryption is enabled on the Commander, you must upgrade the system software of the client to V200R010C00 or a later version. Otherwise, the client cannot join the existing network.

  • If a client in V200R010C00 or a later version needs to be managed by the Commander in a version earlier than V200R010C00, you need to run the easy-operation dtls disable command on the client to disable DTLS encryption.

• Specifications

  Table 1 lists the product models that support the EasyDeploy and specifications of this feature.

  Table 1 EasyDeploy specifications

  EasyDeploy Implementation	Role	Product Model	Version	Maximum Number of Managed Clients	Description
  Through the Commander	Commander	S12700	V200R005C00 and later	255	If the clients are modular switches, EasyDeploy can only be applied to the batch upgrade and batch configuration scenarios. If the clients are fixed switches, EasyDeploy applies to the batch upgrade, batch configuration, zero touch device deployment, and faulty device replacement scenarios.
  		S12700E	V200R019C00 and later	255
  		S7700 and S9700	S7700: V200R003C00 and later S9700: V200R003C00 to V200R013C00	255
  		S5700-HI, S5710-HI, S6700-EI	V200R003C00 to V200R005C00	128
  		S5700-EI and S5710-EI		64
  		S5720-HI	V200R006C00 and later	128
  		S5720-EI	V200R007C00 and later	128
  		S5730-HI	V200R012C00 and later	128
  		S5731-H	V200R013C02 and later	128
  		S5731-S, S5731S-S, and S5731S-H	V200R019C00 and later	128
  		S6720-EI	V200R008C00 and later	128
  		S6720S-EI	V200R009C00 and later	128
  		S6720-HI	V200R012C00 and later	128
  		S6730-H	V200R013C02 and later	128
  		S6730S-H	V200R019C10 and later	128
  		S6730-S, S6730S-S, and S5732-H	V200R019C00 and later	128
  	Client	All fixed switch models except S1720GFR, S1720GW, S1720GWR, S1720X, S1720GW-E, S1720GWR-E and S1720X-E All modular switch models	V200R003C00 and later	-
  Through option fields or an intermediate file	All the devices to be configured can be fixed switches.

• Table 2 lists the types of files that can be loaded through EasyDeploy in various scenarios.

  Table 2 File types supported by EasyDeploy

  Usage Scenario	File Type
  Zero touch device deployment	System software, patch file, web page file, configuration file, and user-defined file
  Faulty device replacement	System software, patch file, web page file, configuration file (automatically backed up), and user-defined file
  Batch upgrade	System software, patch file, web page file, configuration file, license file (supported when the clients are modular switches), and user-defined file
  Batch configuration	Command script

  Each device can download a maximum of three user-defined files, including batch file and login headline file. Devices cannot download user-defined files when zero touch device deployment is implemented using option fields or an intermediate file.