Network equipment lifecycle

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Procurement

Provisioning

ZTP Network Device Provision

SONiC/initial-setup

Juniper TLS certificate install (Fundraising SRXs)

Network telemetry#Network devices (exporters) (Production)

Upgrade

Juniper router upgrade

Juniper switch upgrade

Juniper RE i40e firmware

Migration

Juniper virtual chassis member replace

Migrate from VC switch stack to EVPN

Decommissioning

  1. Make sure the device is not handling any production traffic anymore
  2. Downtime in monitoring
  3. Remove its production facing links
  4. Remove from monitoring (LibreNMS, Puppet, Rancid)
  5. Remove from automation (Homer public & private)
  6. Zeroize
  7. Update Netbox (inc. change status)
  8. Update DNS (dns cookbook)
  9. Remove management/console links (optionally power & unrack)