908 Gen2 and 908e Gen3 IAD’s (AOS 10-9-5) zero-touch from Broadsoft server

[gwhittenberg]

We have 908 Gen2 and 908e Gen3 IAD’s (AOS 10-9-5) we want to use for our PRI to SIP trunk solution. We are looking for a way to zero touch provision these from our Broadsoft servers. The “Auto-Config in AOS” doc dated Feb 2014 states the DHCP server will need to send option 66 and 67 to the IAD. Is this still true? Can we do this any other way? We also want to use HTTP, not TFTP. Our goal is to not touch the 908, simply drop ship to customer. Can we use option 160 and pass the url with the mac_address.txt to the IAD? Thanks!

[gwhittenberg · Accepted solution]

I was not able to get the 908 gen2 to do a true zero-touch. The default config for these has ether 0/1 with a static IP, therefor not getting any DHCP options, etc. etc.

The 908e gen3 works great for this though. it appears ether 0/1 is default to dhcp, and accepting option 66 and 67. This allows for a true zero-touch. Un-box at customer, plug in, and auto provisioned.