CMDS

(C)atalyst to (M)eraki (D)eployment (S)erver - CMDS (pronounced "commands")

Please feel free to view the YT Videos for full, detailed explanation, walkthrough and deployment
Part 1 https://youtu.be/qBfwNBBGeZI
Part 2 https://youtu.be/7m1T3dSq6QE (detailed explanation)

AIO Video for installation and deployment (abridged)
https://youtu.be/JxuDTMVaCFM

Deployment Documentation:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11V8D7SMiOxh83LpjK7glNaEX1MU6rLAe/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=113942710510622294220&rtpof=true&sd=true

Features/Additions to 1.0 (01)

Added the ability to provision Physical Addresses for the migrated switches
Added Nested templates to port template deployment
Added Capability to deploy templates (port or nested) to ANY (migrated Catalsyt or pre-existing MS Meraki)
24 or 48 port switch in the dashboard

This is an on-premise server platform that is designed to provide a seamless experience for migrating
Catalyst 9300 series switches to the Meraki platform with a Dialog based menu system.

The server is built upon Rocky Linux and is script based. It makes this a portable solution across
any hypervisor that will support Rocky linux, on multiple architectures.

The Server can be configured with the following capabilities:
(If in a Lab setting or for testing)
-An (Optional) NTP server to service the switches
-An (Optional) DHCP Server to service the switches
-An (Optional) Caching name server to service the switches (for DNS resolution)
-A TFTP server for switch config collection (mandatory)

-A Set of scripts to allow you to do the following:
-Harvest the switches (for analysis)
-Clean the File System on the switch (remove inactive files)
-Validate the Version of IOS-XE running on the switch platform (16.6.2 upgrade path to 16.12, oneshot to 17.09.03m3)
-Provide guidance on the version (s) needed to get to a supported version of IOS-XE for Meraki migration (minimum requirements and oneshot versions)
-Deploy these (IOS-XE) changes for you
-Deploy the upgrades on the switches
-Validate software configurations on the switches
-If there are any deltas in the configurations, provide guidance to put them into compliance
-The server will then deploy these changes for you (If needed)
-Validate hardware configurations on the switches and provide guidance for a successful upgrade
-Deploy the switches to be registered with the Meraki Cloud
-Provide API integration to claim the devices to the dashboard
-Migrate hostnames
-Provide Switch template configurations for the new deployment (assigning designated ports for wireless, cameras, etc) and deploy via API
-Modify pre-existing (already registered) Meraki Switches to adhere to port template conversion
-Scheduled operations for IOS-XE collection, upgrade, image deployment and meraki switch registration
(i.e. IOS-XE images can start at 1 A.M. without any intervention, short of you requesting it, with active and archive logging capabilities)
-Provide all logging/transaction history
-Configuration archival and download
-Provide documentation of all logging and successful registration with converted Serial Numbers

Installing-
The requirements for installing are the following:
-A minimal install of Rocky Linux with at least 2 GB of RAM (8 preferred) and 10 GB of Disk Space, with root access enabled
-Please download https://download.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/9/isos/x86_64/Rocky-9.4-x86_64-minimal.iso (for x86 Architecture)

After the minimal installation of Rocky, in the repository, Click on the EASY_INSTALL file
Inside of this file, you will see the following lines of Code:

cd /root/
dnf -y install wget
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fumatchu/CMDS/main/mig-installer.sh
chmod 700 ./mig-installer.sh
/root/mig-installer.sh

You can copy it (or from here) and paste into your terminal connection to the server via SSH to start the depndency installs