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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2023
Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Eamon Doyle, Dublin, IE;
Saurabh Singhal, Bangalore, IN;
Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for provisioning a network device can include, on a network device in a factory-default state and having a factory-installed Secure Zero Touch Provisioning (SZTP) agent, enabling a wireless communication capability of the network device. Upon detecting the wireless communication capability being enabled, the SZTP agent attempts to establish a connection with an SZTP application on a computing device in close proximity to the network device. Once connected, the SZTP agent requests SZTP bootstrap information from the SZTP Application, receives SZTP artifacts, and determines whether the SZTP artifacts contain redirect information to an SZTP bootstrap server. If so, the SZTP agent validates the redirect information and attempts to connect to the SZTP bootstrap server. Once connected, the SZTP agent attempts to retrieve network device provisioning artifacts from the SZTP bootstrap server and provisions the network device using the network device provisioning artifacts retrieved from the SZTP bootstrap server.