Arista EOS (eAPI)

Introduction

To enable Arista switches running EOS to stream telemetry data to ONES controller, API gNMI and eAPI need to be enabled

Enabling eAPI

bash$ ssh username@myswitch
   Password: <passw0rd>
   myswitch> enable
   myswitch# configure terminal
   myswitch(config)# management api http-commands
   myswitch(config-mgmt-api-http-cmds)# no shutdown

Verification eAPI

   myswitch(config-mgmt-api-http-cmds)# show management api http-commands
   Enabled:            Yes
   HTTPS server:       running, set to use port 443
   HTTP server:        shutdown, set to use port 80
   Local HTTP server:  shutdown, no authentication, set to use port 8080
   Unix Socket server: shutdown, no authentication
   VRFs:               default