I have a mostly Ruckus and Mikrotik network stack at home. For the longest time, Ruckus Unleashed has had the ability to manage ICX switches; but every time I went to add my switch to the Unleashed interface it would hang at “Connecting…”. After a bunch of troubleshooting, I figured out why it was not working.

Unleashed likes to automatically adopt blank switches, if your switch is already configured you may have the same issue. The issue is Unleashed cannot use a ICX switch with an enable password. I had to run:

SSH@switch(config)#no aaa authentication enable default radius local

Then suddenly if I ran “# show log” I could see Unleashed adding settings to the switch. Unleashed seems to use SSH as the main mechanism for setup, then adds a RO SNMP string to the switch. Hope this helps someone!