Napalm Service Common Parameters

These parameters are common to all Napalm Services.

Napalm Parameters

• Driver: Which Napalm driver to use when connecting to the device. If Use Device Driveris chosen, the driver defined at device level (napalm_driver inventory property of the device) is used. Otherwise, the driver defined at service level (Driver property of the service) is used.
• Optional arguments: Napalm supports a number of optional arguments that are documented here.

Connection Parameters

• Credentials: Select between:
  • Device Credentials: The application will select the most appropriate credential object for each device. If there are multiple credentials available, the Type of Credential and Priority properties become a tiebreaker.
  • Named Credentials: Allows users to reference a specific credential for all targets. Selecting this option requires additional selections below (section Named Credential).
  • Custom Credentials: Allows users to store a credential against this service. Selecting this option requires additional selections below (sections Custom Username and Custom Password).

Advice

Named Credentials selections will persist through duplicating a service, unlike Custom Credentials. For details on creating a Named Credential take a look at this page.

• Named Credential: Select from a list of user created credential objects.
• Custom Username: User provided username, stored against this service.

• Custom Password: User provided password, stored against this service.

• Start New Connection: before the service runs, the current cached connection for the device is discarded, and a new one is started.

• Connection Name: If changed to something other than default, the connection will be cached as a separate connection to that same device. This allows for multiple simultaneous "named" connections to a single device.

• Close Connection: once the service is done running, the current connection will be closed.