Create a Cisco SD-WAN Cloud-Pro Fabric
The Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Portal provisions Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN fabrics according to the information that you provide as part of the following procedure.
Before You Begin
Ensure that you have the following:
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An active Cisco Smart Account.
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An active Cisco Virtual Account.
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The SA-Admin role for your Cisco Smart Account. (Required to access the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Portal for the first time and to create a fabric. Not required thereafter.)
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A valid order for control components on Cisco Commerce (formerly CCW).
Procedure
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Go to the URL that you received in the email from Cisco to access the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Portal, and log in.
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From the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Portal menu, choose .
The Create Cisco SD-WAN Fabric page appears.
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From the Smart Account drop-down list, choose the name of the Cisco Smart Account to which you want to associate the fabric.
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If the Cisco Smart Account you want does not appear in the drop-down list, click
to refresh the list and search for the Cisco Smart Account using its domain ID.
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From the Virtual Account drop-down list, choose the name of the Cisco Virtual Account to which you want to associate the fabric.
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Select a Cisco SD-WAN Cloud or Cisco SD-WAN Cloud-Pro Fabric. Creating a Cisco SD-WAN Cloud fabric is described in the Cisco SD-WAN Cloud Guide. If you select Cisco SD-WAN Cloud-Pro, a questionnaire dialog box appears, where you enter details about your request.
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Check the appropriate boxes if you intend to use any of the listed features on the fabric (required). Check the box for “None of the above options” if you aren’t using any additional features.
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Enter the number of devices you plan to add to the fabric (required).
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Enter the sales order number for any SD-WAN subscriptions you have (optional).
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Click Next.
Based on your responses, you are directed to the Cisco SD-WAN Cloud or Cisco SD-WAN Cloud-Pro fabric creation workflow. Creating a Cisco SD-WAN Cloud fabric is described in the Cisco SD-WAN Cloud Guide. The remainder of these instructions apply to creating a Cisco SD-WAN Cloud-Pro fabric.
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Click Assign Control Components and perform the following actions in the Assign Control Components area:
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Configure the options for the number of control component types in a Cisco SD-WAN Cloud-Pro fabric, as described in the table.
Option
Description
Assign (for the vManage control component type)
Enter the number of Cisco SD-WAN Manager control components in your deployment.
Valid values are 1, 3, or 6.
Assign (for the vBond control component type)
Enter the number of Cisco SD-WAN Validators in your deployment.
The minimum value is 2.
Assign (for the vSmart control component type)
Enter the number of Cisco SD-WAN control components in your deployment.
The minimum value is 2.
Enable Cluster
Applies only if you choose a value of 3 or 6 for the number of Cisco SD-WAN Manager controllers.
Turn on this option to create a Cisco SD-WAN Manager cluster.
Cluster Type
Applies only if you turn on the Enable Cluster option.
Choose Single Tenant Cluster to enable a single tenant cluster.
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Click Assign.
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In the Fabric field, enter a name for your fabric.
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Under Cloud Provider, choose AWS or Azure as the cloud provider at which you want Cisco to host the control components for your fabric.
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IPv6 provisioning is only supported for Single Tenant fabrics hosted on AWS.
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From the SD-WAN Version drop-down list, choose the version of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN that you want to use on your control components.
Choose the recommended version unless there are specific features that you need and these features are available only in another version. For information about recommended versions, go to Cisco Software Central. For information about Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN releases, see the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Release Notes in the Release Information area in User Documentation for Cisco IOS XE (SD-WAN) Release 17.
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Under Locations, perform these actions:
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From the Primary Location drop-down list, choose the geographical location where the Cisco SD-WAN Manager is provisioned.
We recommend that you choose a location that is relatively close to your network.
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From the Secondary Location drop-down list, choose the geographical location for backed up data storage and load balancing. If you choose the same region for both primary and secondary, then SSP automatically places the instances in two different Zones within the same region.
We recommend that you choose the location that is closest to the primary location.
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From the Data Location drop-down list, choose the geographical location for Cisco SD-WAN Analytics data storage.
We recommend that you choose the location that is closest to the primary location.
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Enter the following information under Contacts:
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In the Fabric Admins field, enter one or more comma separated email addresses or mailer list names to which the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Portal sends notifications about the fabric.
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In the Cisco Contact Email field, enter the email address of a contact at Cisco that can be reached if there is an urgent issue and the administrator of the fabric cannot be reached.
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In the Enter Contract number of service field, enter the number of your Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Portal service contract.
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In the Enter CCO ID of Service Requester field, enter the Cisco ID of the person who created the ticket for your Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Portal.
Alert Notifications: SSP sends alert notifications to customers for various reasons such as expiring subscription, maintenance windows, feature changes, etc. SSP notifications are sent to the registered 'Overlay Admin' contact email addresses configured under overlay details. It is customer responsibility to keep this email addresses updated. Customers can register multiple email addresses. Perform the following steps to update email addresses:
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Login to SSP at https://ssp.sdwan.cisco.com. You must have Cisco PNP Smart Account Administrator role to be able to login.
Alternately, if your Smart Account Administrator has already set up IDP on SSP, then you can login with the role provided by your Administrator.
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Go to
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Click on the pencil icon to edit.
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Type in your email address and hit Tab.
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Click on the check mark icon to save.
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Configure the following Advanced Options, as needed.
For detailed information about these options, see Configure Advanced Options for a Cisco SD-WAN Cloud-Pro Fabric.
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Custom Subnets: Configure private IP addresses to be used for control component interface IP addresses.
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Custom Domain Settings: Configure custom domains for accessing Cisco SD-WAN Validator and Cisco SD-WAN Manager.
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Snapshot Settings: Configure how often the system takes a snapshot of Cisco SD-WAN Manager instances in your deployment.
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Custom Organization Name: Configure a unique organization name to identify your network.
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Compliance: Select certification compliances for the fabric.
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Dual Stack: Enable IPv6 dual stack.
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Click Click here to review and agree to Terms & Conditions before proceeding, and in the Terms and Conditions dialog box, review the information that is shown and click I Agree.
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Click Create Fabric.
The request is submitted. For a Cisco SD-WAN Cloud-Pro fabric, manual approval can take up to 24 hours. Information about the progress of this request appears in the Requests area.
In addition, a password appears in the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Portal Notification page. Use this password to access the fabric for the first time.
To secure your environment, we recommend that you immediately change this password after logging in.
Note
The system-provided control component password is no longer visible in the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Portal after seven days. We recommend that you keep a copy of the password if you want to retain it.
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After you receive a notification that your fabric is ready:
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Install the control component certificates on your devices. For information about installing control component certificates, see Use Case: Cisco-Hosted Cloud Overlays with Software Version 19.x and Above.
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Install web server certificates. For information about installing web server certificates, see Web Server Certificates.
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