Device Pre-Staging
Learn more about the device pre-staging.
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The ION device shell allows you to create elements, visualize the network, and
do simple configurations. You can now pre-stage device configurations before the
hardware becomes available to accelerate deployment. This new approach is referred to as
the ‘Device Shell’. If there are device-related attributes in the template, then when
deploying using the site template, enter the device serial number to which site it
should be attached. If you don't have a physical device serial number or if the device
isn’t available at the time of deployment, a virtual configuration–element shell–is
created associating a device to the site.
A device shell icon represents a virtual configuration. It creates a dummy device and
when the physical device is ready to be assigned, assigns the device to the shell. After
the device is associated to the shell, all the configurations are transferred to the
device and the shell ceases to exist.
