Global Configuration

Using Interface Persona (Template)
Description 

 Starting in Aruba OS CX 10.10 a new feature called interface persona was introduced. This feature allows you to build interface templates and attach or copy a interfaces to those personas (templates). This is great for configuring multiple interfaces with the same configuration. 

 There are a couple of things to note, copying a interface persona will copy the config from the persona into the interface and nothing more. Attaching a interface to a persona will link the configuration to the persona, if you make a change to the persona it will also change all of the interfaces that are attached to the persona. You will see how to attach a interface to a persona in the config example below. 

 Defining a interface persona 

 In this example I am setting up a dot1x persona (template) that I want to apply to several interfaces. 

 

 interface persona dot1x-auth     no shutdown     mtu 9198     no routing     vlan access 1     qos trust dscp     loop-protect action tx-rx-disable     aaa authentication port-access client-limit 10     aaa authentication port-access dot1x authenticator         eapol-timeout 10         max-eapol-requests 1         max-retries 1         enable     aaa authentication port-access mac-auth         enable 

 

 Attaching a interface to a persona 

 This is an example of a default interface before I attach it to a persona 

 

 show running-config interface 1/1/10 interface 1/1/10     no shutdown     no routing     vlan access 1     exit 

 

 Now I will attach the interface to a persona 

 

 (config)# interface 1/1/10 CX6300-Core(config-if)# persona custom dot1x-auth attach 

 

 After the interface has been attached to the persona you can see that the interface is linked to the configuration in the persona 

 

 # show running-config interface 1/1/10 interface 1/1/10     no shutdown     persona custom dot1x-auth attach     mtu 9198     no routing     vlan access 1     qos trust dscp     aaa authentication port-access client-limit 10     aaa authentication port-access dot1x authenticator         eapol-timeout 10         max-eapol-requests 1         max-retries 1         enable     aaa authentication port-access mac-auth         enable     loop-protect action tx-rx-disable     exit