Orchestration Overview

With SDWAN Orchestration, it is very easy to auto-provision and remotely manage your network appliances and modify configurations. It allows users to easily configure a complex network design through a Graphical UI. Device CLI will be auto-generated and pulled by Gateway/SD-Branch devices after the user saves the configurations and clicks the button. SDWAN Topology Graph is provided for quick display of link issues and easy access to all the appliances.

Prerequisites:

  • All hosts must be pre-created in ‘ADMIN > Hosts‘, See ‘Add Host‘ Page

Major steps to configure SDWAN:

  1. Select the Entity by clicking on button at the top right corner.
    • all the Hosts of the selected entity will be available for the orchestration configuration.
  2. Configure Entity Host as Gateways and Edge devices (CPE), See ‘Add New Gateway Page.
  3. Create and apply ‘Config Template‘ (eg. firewall/Wireless/Hotspot Templates) to Gateways/Edges (optional) See ‘Global Settings‘ Page.
  4. Click the button at the top right corner to update CLI commands for all the Gateways/Edges.
    •  Gateways/Edges will auto pull and apply the latest CLI changes after the ‘Apply Config‘ button is pushed.

NOTE

The overall SDWAN configuration is summarized in the SDWAN Topology Graph, which can be accessed by clicking the ‘MFUSION CLOUD >Monitoring > SD-WAN tab‘. See ‘SDWAN Topology Page.

Save Changes vs Apply Config

In SDWAN Orchestration, most UI pages contain fine cropped save change button and buttons.

‘Save Changes’ saves the current UI settings and updates the SD-WAN Topology. Make sure to click the ‘Save Changes’ button after every UI changes you make to the Gateway/Edge device.

‘Apply Config’ button will update CLI commands of all the Gateways/Edges within the selected Entity, based on the last saved UI settings.

Image 1: Sample UI for Gateway Ethernet Settings

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Auto Apply CLI changes to all Gateways/Edges

After clicking ‘Apply Config’, Gateways/SD-Branch will auto pull the latest CLI changes and apply them. The device configuration change will usually be pulled within the 1-minute interval and the ‘SDWAN Push Config Logs’ pop-up appears, where the user can view the latest pushed config to the Gateway / SD-Branch.

Image 2: Sample UI of Preview Configuration

Image 3: Sample UI of Config Difference.

User can expand to view the detailed configuration by clicking the button, and analyze Config Difference (CLI changes) between the current and old CLI versions by clicking the icon or by navigating to the ‘Configs Tab > History’ menu. See Image 2 below.

NOTE

By default, the Config Difference shown is only for CLI changes that are to be pulled by Gateways/SD-Branch.

User can select any two versions of the Device Config to compare in ‘Compare Config‘ section

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Host Menu

In SDWAN Orchestration, Gateway / SD-Branch UI pages contain ‘Host menu icon to perform various task.

The Gateway and SD-Branch device has similar menus except Web Management option, which is available only for Hotspot Gateway (VM / Cloud / Appliance)

Gateway / SD-Branch – Host Menu

User can find the below Host menu of the Gateway & SD-Branch

Gateway Host menu

SD-Branch Host menu

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The fields of Gateway / SD-Branch Host menu are summarized below:

S/NMenuDescription
01Host Dashboard
02Ping TestPing Test menu  can be used for quality measurements of the Internet/network connection.
03TracerouteTraceroute menu computer network diagnostic commands for displaying possible routes (paths)
04Throughput TestThroughput Test menu is for testing the performance of a wireless or wired network
05ProvisioningProvisioning menu allows user to edit the provisioned Host
06Web-ManagementWeb-Management menu allows to login to the Hotspot Gateway GUI
07Running ConfigThis menu open the existing command line code of the Host
08Resync ConfigResync Config menu overwrites the mfusion GUI config to Host
09Upgrade FirmwareThis menu allows to upgrade the Host firmware
10RebootThis menu allows to reboot the host
Table 1: The fields of Gateway List