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‘, Refer to Add Host link
Major steps to configure SDWAN:
- Select the Entity by clicking on
button at the top right corner.
- all the provisioned Hosts of the selected entity will be available in the orchestration to configuration.
- Configure Entity Host as Gateways and Edge devices (CPE), Refer to ‘Add New Gateway‘ link.
- Create and apply ‘Config Template‘ (eg. firewall/Wireless/Hotspot Templates) to Gateways/Edges (optional) Refer to ‘Global Settings‘ link.
- 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
‘ button is clicked.
- Gateways/Edges will auto pull and apply the latest CLI changes after the
NOTE
The overall SDWAN configuration is summarized in the SDWAN Topology Graph, which can be accessed by clicking the ‘Orchestration >Monitoring > SD-WAN‘ tab. Refer to SDWAN Topology link for more information.
Save Changes vs Apply Config
In SDWAN Orchestration, most UI pages contain and
buttons.
‘Save Changes’ saves the current UI settings and updates the SD-WAN Topology. Make sure to click the button after every UI changes you make to the Gateway/Branch devices.
button will update CLI commands to the configured Gateways/Branch within the selected Entity, based on the last saved UI settings.
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Auto Apply CLI changes to all Gateways/Edges
After clicking , 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 window appears, where the user can view the latest pushed config to the Gateway / Branch.
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User can expand to view the detailed configuration by clicking the button, and analyse 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/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
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SD-Branch Host menu
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The fields of Gateway / SD-Branch Host menu are summarized below:
Menu | Description |
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Host Dashboard | |
Ping Test | Ping Test menu can be used for quality measurements of the Internet/network connection. |
Traceroute | Traceroute menu computer network diagnostic commands for displaying possible routes (paths) |
Throughput Test | Throughput Test menu is for testing the performance of a wireless or wired network |
Speed Test | Check your Internet speed |
Provisioning | Provisioning menu allows user to edit the provisioned Host |
Web-Management | Web-Management menu allows to login to the Hotspot Gateway GUI |
Running Config | This menu open the existing command line code of the Host |
Resync Config | Resync Config menu overwrites the mfusion GUI config to Host |
Upgrade Firmware | This menu allows to upgrade the Host firmware |
Reboot | This menu allows to reboot the host |