Creating Port Profiles, Storm Control Profiles, sFlow Profiles, or Telemetry Profiles by Cloning

Starting from Contrail Networking Release 2003, you can create a new port profile, storm control profile, sFlow profile, or a telemetry profile by cloning an existing one. You can modify the parameters in the cloned profile and save it. Cloning helps you quickly create a profile, without going through the process of defining each and every parameter. You can choose to modify those parameters that need to be modified.

Note:

You cannot clone the default entities or profiles. However, you can create clones of an entity or a profile that you created earlier.

This topic shows how to clone a telemetry profile from Contrail command.

Follow these steps to clone a telemetry profile:

  1. Navigate to Infrastructure > Fabrics and click the Telemetry Profiles tab. Follow the steps in Configuring Contrail Insights Flows by Assigning Telemetry and sFlow Profiles to Devices and create a telemetry profile.

    The newly created telemetry profile is displayed as highlighted in Figure 1.

    Figure 1: Telemetry Profile Telemetry and sFlow profiles management interface showing telemetry profile names, associated sFlow profiles, default status, and sFlow profile details including sample rate, polling interval, interfaces, and default status. Telemetry profile2 selected and linked to test-sflow-profile. Navigation bar includes options for Fabrics, Device Functional Groups, Node Profiles, and Images, with controls for creating, searching, and deleting profiles.
  2. Click the clone icon as highlighted in Figure 2.
    Figure 2: Clone a Profile User interface for managing telemetry profiles and sFlow profiles with sections showing profile details like name, default status, sample rate, and polling interval. Clone button highlighted for telemetry-profile2.

    You can see that the name of the existing profile is prefixed with Copy of as highlighted in Figure 3. You can rename the profile if required.

    Figure 3: Modify Parameters User interface for cloning a telemetry profile in a network system, showing profile name field, sFlow profile dropdown, sFlow profile details such as sample rate and enabled interfaces, navigation bar path Infrastructure Fabrics Clone Telemetry Profile, and action buttons Create and Cancel.
  3. Modify the required parameters and click Create. The cloned profile is displayed as shown in Figure 4.
    Figure 4: Cloned Profile User interface for managing telemetry and sFlow profiles, showing telemetry profiles with default status and sFlow profiles with sample rate and polling interval details. Includes navigation tabs, user info, and profile controls.

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