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Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Multitenancy Guide, Releases 26.x and Later

Onboard tenants to a multitenant WAN edge device using a template

Updated: August 3, 2026

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Describes how a provider admin onboards tenants to a multitenant WAN edge device. It notes that the tenant must already exist in the multitenant deployment and that onboarding causes the device to establish control connections to the tenant’s assigned SD-WAN Controllers.

You can onboard tenants to a multitenant WAN edge device using the Tenant template.

  • If you haven’t onboarded a tenant to the device, create a Tenant template, add tenants, and attach the tenant template to the device template.

  • If you have onboarded tenants to the device, to onboard a new tenant, update the existing Tenant template attached to the device.

When you onboard a new tenant to the multitenant WAN edge device, the device establishes control connections to the Cisco SD-WAN Controllers assigned to the tenant.

Before you begin

Before onboarding the tenant to a multitenant WAN edge device, add the tenant to the multitenant deployment and create the tier with which you wish to associate the tenant.

Follow these steps to onboard tenants to a multitenant WAN edge device.

Procedure

1.

Log in to Cisco SD-WAN Manager as the provider admin user.
2.

From the Cisco SD-WAN Manager menu, choose Configuration > Templates.
3.

Find the device template for the multitenant WAN edge device to which you are onboarding tenants.
4.

For the device template, click … and select Edit.

The device template is displayed.
5.

Click Additional Templates.
6.

In the Additional Templates area, click the Tenant template drop-down list and select Create Template.
7.

In the Tenant template form, do this:

  1. Enter a unique template name. The template name can contain up to 128 alphanumeric characters.

  2. Enter a description for the template. The description can contain up to 2048 alphanumeric characters.

  3. In the Tenant area, click New Tenant.

  4. From the Tenant Name drop-down list, select the tenant organization name.

    In Cisco vManage Release 20.11.1 and earlier releases, Tenant Name is called Org Name.

  5. From the Resource Profile Name drop-down list, select a tier for the tenant.

    In Cisco vManage Release 20.11.1 and earlier releases, Resource Profile Name is called Tier Name.

  6. Click Add.

  7. Repeat these steps to add additional tenants.
8.

Click Save.
9.

For the device template, click Update to save and apply the modified configuration.
10.

Select the target device in the left pane and click Configure Devices.