Information About Using Cisco SD-WAN Manager to Monitor the SD-Routing Devices
This feature allows you to perform the basic management capabilities through Cisco SD-WAN Manager on the Cisco IOS XE devices that are operating in non-SD-WAN mode. From Cisco IOS XE 17.12.1a onwards, such devices will be referred as SD-Routing devices. You can use a single Network Management System (NSM) (Cisco SD-WAN Manager) to manage and monitor all the Cisco IOS XE routers and help in simplifying solution deployments.
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Cisco IOS-XE Software No Payload Encryption (NPE) or No Lawful Intercept and No Payload Encryption (NOLI/NPE) images does not support managing the SD-Routing devices using Cisco SD-WAN Manager feature. |
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The minimum software version required for this feature to work is Cisco IOS XE 17.12.1a and Cisco SD-WAN Release 20.12.1. |
Benefits of Managing the SD-Routing Devices Using Cisco SD-WAN Manager
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Use of a single NMS (Cisco SD-WAN Manager) for Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN and SD-Routing deployments in an Enterprise network.
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Co-existence of Cisco SD-WAN and SD-Routing devices on the same Cisco SD-WAN Manager.
Prerequisites
The following are the prerequisites to onboard the SD-Routing devices:
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Ensure that the device run the Cisco IOS XE 17.12.1a image in install mode. For more information on the modes, see the Modes Using Cisco CLI section.
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A Cisco SD-WAN Manager instance either on-prem or hosted on a cloud.
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Connectivity from the device to the Cisco SD-WAN Manager.
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Enable netconf-yang models for enabling DMI which is required for managing from Cisco SD-WAN Manager.
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Devices operating in autonomous mode must be configured with the following basic configuration manually to establish the secure control connections with controllers (Cisco SD-WAN Validator and Cisco SD-WAN Manager):
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System properties:
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System-ip
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Site-id
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Organization-name
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Cisco SD-WAN Validator information (IP address or FQDN Cisco SD-WAN Validator server)
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Interface configuration:
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Physical interface with a static or dynamic IP address and subnet mask
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Dynamic routing or default route to provide reachability to Cisco SD-WAN Validator or Cisco SD-WAN Manager
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Limitations
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Cisco SD-routing devices onboarding onto Cisco SD-WAN Manager is only supported with universalk9 images. No Payload Encryption (NPE) images are not supported.
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In Cisco IOS XE 17.12.1a release, basic monitoring is supported and additional features will be supported in the subsequent releases. For more information on supported features list, see the platform specific Release Notes.
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Cisco SD-Routing devices can only have one control connection to Cisco SD-WAN Manager from an interface with reachability to the controllers.
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Cicso SD-routing devices will not have any active connection with Cisco SD-WAN Controller.
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Dedicated management interface is not supported for the connection to the Cisco SD-WAN Manager.