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

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Create a static route tracker

Updated: April 24, 2026

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Provides instructions to create and configure a static route tracker, ensuring continuous monitoring and automated response to network events that affect static route availability.

Before you begin

Use the System Template to create a tracker for static routes.

Delete existing static routes, if any, before you create a static route tracker. Configure a new static route tracker using the same prefix and next hop as the deleted static route.

Procedure

1.

From Cisco SD-WAN Manager menu, choose Configuration > Templates.
2.

Click Feature Templates.
3.

Navigate to the Cisco System template for the device.

For information about creating a System template, see Create System Template.
4.

Click Tracker. Click New Endpoint Tracker to configure the tracker parameters.

Table 1. Tracker Parameters

Field

Description

Name

Name of the tracker. The name can be up to 128 alphanumeric characters.

Threshold

Wait time for the probe to return a response before declaring that the configured endpoint is down. The range is from 100 to 1000 milliseconds. The default is 300 milliseconds.

Interval

Time interval between probes to determine the status of the configured endpoint. The default is 60 seconds (1 minute).

The range is from 20 to 600 seconds.

Multiplier

Number of times probes are sent before declaring that the endpoint is down. The range is from 1 to 10. The default is 3.

Tracker Type

From the drop-down, choose Global. From the Tracker Type field drop-down, choose Static Route.

From Cisco IOS XE Catalyst SD-WAN Release 17.7.1a, you can configure a tracker group with dual endpoints on Cisco IOS XE Catalyst SD-WAN devices. You can associate this tracker group to a static route.

Endpoint Type

Choose endpoint type IP address.

Note

Configuring the tracker type Static Route using endpoint URL or endpoint DNS name is not supported.

End-Point Type: IP Address

IP address of the static route end point. This is the destination on the internet to which the router sends probes to determine the status of the route.
5.

Click Add.
6.

Click Save.

Complete all mandatory actions before saving the template.
7.

To create a tracker group, click Tracker Groups > New Endpoint Tracker Groups and configure the tracker parameters.

Ensure that you have created two trackers to form a tracker group.

Table 2. Tracker Group Parameters

Fields

Description

Name

Name of the tracker group.

Tracker Type

From the drop-down, choose Global. From the Tracker Type field drop-down, choose Static Route.

From Cisco IOS XE Catalyst SD-WAN Release 17.7.1a, you can configure a tracker group with dual endpoints on Cisco IOS XE Catalyst SD-WAN devices and associate this tracker group to a static route.

Tracker Elements

This field is displayed only if you chose Tracker-group as the tracker type. Add the existing interface tracker names (separated by a space). When you add this tracker to the template, the tracker group is associated with these individual trackers, and you can then associate the tracker group to a static route.

Tracker Boolean

From the drop-down list, choose Global. This field is displayed only if you chose tracker-group as the Tracker Type. By default, the OR option is selected. Choose AND or OR.

OR ensures that the static route status is reported as active if either one of the associated trackers of the tracker group report that the route is active.

If you select AND, the static route status is reported as active if both the associated trackers of the tracker group report that the route is active.

8.

Click Add.
9.

Click Save.

Complete all mandatory actions before saving the template.