Auto-boarding

The device establishment, or “registration”, is the first step to establish the device’s information in VHQ. When the device communicates to the VHQ Server for the first time, the registration is performed through key exchange. In Auto-Registration process, the device information like: device’s serial number, customer ID, model and IP address are also sent to the server during the key exchange.

The high level steps that have to be followed to register devices in VHQ using the auto-registration method are given below:

1. Define the IP address range in VHQ hierarchy for the devices.
2. Ensure that the device information is NOT pre-boarded from the VHQ GUI.
3. Load the VHQ Agent in the required devices along with the required configuration package for the VHQ Agent.
4. When VHQ Agent in a device communicates for the first time with VHQ Server, it performs a key exchange operation with the VHQ Server and then it tries to determine the location in the VHQ hierarchy where this device has to be placed, based on the IP address reported by this device.
5. If VHQ Server is able to determine the exact location in the hierarchy where this device has to be placed, then it sets the device status to “Active”. If this is not the case, then the VHQ Server sets the status of this device to "Pending Hierarchy Assignment" and assigns it to the root node of the hierarchy. Once a VHQ user sets the hierarchical value for this device from the VHQ GUI, then the status of this device will automatically change to “Active”.