SDWAN-dCloud-LAB-GUIDE

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Table of Contents
Requirements ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
Get Started .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
Network Details.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6
Lab Topology ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6
Device Credentials ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 7
IP Address Schema ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 8
Preconfiguration Summary ................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 10
Dynamic Service Side routing at the DC ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 11
Activity Verification ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 22
Dynamic Service Side Routing at Site 40 .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 26
Activity Verification and Remediation ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 36
Configuring Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol ............................................................................................................................................................................ 43
TLOC Extensions at Site 20 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 58
Updating the VPN and Device Templates...................................................................................................................................................................................... 74
Activity Verification ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 85
Configuring a Hub and Spoke topology ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 89
Creating the Policy ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 101
Activity Verification ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 117
Setting up a Regional Hub ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 121
Verification ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 140
Implementing Custom Traffic Engineering ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 143
Verification ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 159
Implementing Direct Internet Access ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 163
Verification ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 173
Configuring Application Aware Routing ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 175
Viewing modified traffic flows and current network statistics ....................................................................................................................................................... 185
Verify Policer configured for network impairment ......................................................................................................................................................................... 187
Applying the Policer on the MPLS link ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 191

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 Viewing changed statistics and resultant traffic flows .................................................................................................................................................................. 196
Configuring Low Latency Queuing and QoS ................................................................................................................................................................................... 199
Apply the ACL and QoS Map ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 215
Activity Verification ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 224
Configuring a Zone Based Firewall for Guest DIA users ................................................................................................................................................................. 229
Creating a Security Policy ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 237
Applying the Policy and Verification ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 251
Installing and Configuring the IPS module on cEdges ..................................................................................................................................................................... 256
Add the Security Policy ................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 258
Updating the Application List and Device Template ..................................................................................................................................................................... 265
Verifying installation and performing signature updates .............................................................................................................................................................. 271
Activity Verification ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 274
Configuring URL Filtering ................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 277
Configuring AMP and TLS/SSL Proxy ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 286
Initial Configuration ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 292
Configuring NTP and DNS ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 292
Setting up vManage as the CA .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 299
Enabling AMP and Testing........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 312
Configuring the Decryption Policy ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 316
Activity Verification ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 321
Integrating Cisco SD-WAN and Umbrella ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 327
Enabling DIA For Site 40 VPN 30 ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 332
Life without Umbrella.................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 342
Configuring WAN Edge Umbrella Redirection ............................................................................................................................................................................. 347
Making Umbrella Ours ................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 366
Building a DNS Policy .................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 373
Pre-Work for Site 30..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 396
Enabling Site 30 for DIA ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 416
Setting up IPSEC Tunnels ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 419

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 Configuring a Firewall Policy ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 433
Configuring a Web Policy ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 440
Dynamic On-Demand Tunnels ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 452
Configuring a Control Policy for Dynamic Tunnels ....................................................................................................................................................................... 461
Configuring OMP Templates ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 471
Enabling Dynamic Tunnels .......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 490
Activity Verification ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 504
Inter VPN Routing and Service Chaining......................................................................................................................................................................................... 514
Setting up VPN Lists .................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 534
Inter VPN Routing Policies ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 538
Inter VPN Routing Verification ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 548
Policies for Service Chaining ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 553
Activity Verification ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 561
Configuring Cloud OnRamp for SaaS.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 567
Configuring Cloud OnRamp for SaaS .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 573
Verification and Testing................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 581

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Requirements
1. The following table outline the components required to execute the tests in this demonstration guide.
Required Recommended Optional
Laptop with browser Google Chrome^ Cisco AnyConnect*

* Incognito mode if seeing caching issues on the POC Tool UI.

* You can use the external public address provided in the session details if not using AnyConnect.

Get Started
2. Initiate your dCloud session by clicking on the lab link provided by your trainer and log in with your own CCO credentials.
3. On the dCloud page, click on My Hub => Sessions => Info
4. Navigate the Info section and find the external IP address of your POD. This will be your POD’s public IP address.
5. Launch the Google Chrome browser (incognito mode preferred), put the external IP address of your POD in the address bar and hit Enter.
6. If your organization has blocked access to POD’s public IP address, then use AnyConnect VPN to access your POD. AnyConnect credentials and POD’s internal IP
address are also given in Info section.
7. On Google Chrome, click through the security warning to ignore the certificate error (or add an exception for the site). Log into POC Tool using username
dcloud@cisco.com and password C1sco12345.
8. As this is the first time you logged into your POD, wait here for approximately 10 minutes for all the devices to boot up. (Do not click on any button or icon)
9. After a wait of 10 minutes, click on the blue vManage icon at the top right corner. It will open vManage in another browser tab.

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11. Log into vManage using username admin and password admin.

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Network Details

Table of Contents
Lab Topology

Device Credentials

IP Address schema

Lab Topology
Given below is the lab topology being used for the SWAT SD-WAN Labs

Note: There might be minor differences in the topology being used versus what you see here. We will keep this
updated as far as possible

Decoding the topology:

There are a total of 5 sites where we will have cEdges/vEdges deployed

All sites have Service VPNs associated with them.

Sites with vEdges have 2 service VPNs (VPN10 and VPN20)

Sites with cEdges have 3 service VPNs (VPN10, VPN20 and VPN30)

Some devices have dual uplinks (MPLS and Internet) while others have single uplinks (MPLS only or Internet only)

Site DC (Site ID 1) is running OSPF on the LAN. Site 50 is running EIGRP on the LAN

Site 20 will have TLOC Extensions set up and we will be peering with the MPLS side via eBGP

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 All devices have been on boarded for the participants.

Participants are required to configure templates for WAN Edge devices and vSmarts

Device Credentials
• For vManage, vSmarts, vBond => username admin and password admin

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 • For all WAN Edge Devices => username admin and password admin
• For Windows PCs => username admin and password C1sco12345
• For Ubuntu PCs => username ubuntu and password viptela

IP Address Schema

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 Preconfiguration Summary
Certain parts of the topology have been preconfigured to save time, the preconfigured components and associated

knowledge is considered pre-requisite for this training, the preconfigured tasks include the following:

• All cEdges and vEdges are onboarded and have their control connections as up
• Feature templates for VPN0 and VPN0 interfaces for cEdges and vEdges on all sites have been pre-configured
• Device Templates for cEdges and vEdges on all sites have been preconfigured
• Some service-side VPNs for sites have been pre-configured

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Dynamic Service Side routing at the DC
Summary: Implementing Dynamic Service Side Routing at the DC - OSPF

Table of Contents
Overview

Updating the vEdge Service VPN 10 with an

OSPF Template

Activity Verification

Task List

Overview
Updating the vEdge Service VPN 10 with an OSPF Template
Activity Verification

Overview
Sites in Cisco SD-WAN will generally have an L3 device on the LAN other than the vEdges/cEdges. These devices might be
servicing LAN users and advertising their routes via an IGP of choice. We need to make sure that these routes are
advertised across the SD-WAN Fabric. While static routing can be used to achieve this, it is time consuming and extremely
prone to errors. Thus, running a Dynamic Routing Protocol between the WAN Edge devices and the L3 devices, is usually
preferred.

We will run OSPF on VPN 10 in the DC with an L3 Device (called the Central Gateway). The Central Gateway has been
configured with the corresponding OSPF configuration. Once OSPF neighborships are established between the Central
Gateway and our DC-vEdges, we will try to reach a route being advertised by the Central Gateway (10.0.0.1/32) from
vEdge30.

Given below is the section of the topology that we will be working on for this activity.

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 Task List

Overview
Updating the vEdge Service VPN 10 with an OSPF Template
Activity Verification

Updating the vEdge Service VPN 10 with an OSPF Template

1. Go to Configuration => Templates and click on the three dots next to DCvEdge_dev_temp. Click on Edit

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2. Under Service VPN, click on the three dots next to the vedge-vpn10 template and choose to Edit it

3. Click on OSPF under Additional VPN Templates to add an OSPF Template

4. Click on the OSPF drop down and click on Create Template to create a new OSPF Template. We are creating our
Templates on the fly over here, but could have created them before hand from the Feature Templates, if required
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5. Give the template a name of DC-OSPF and a Description of OSPF Template for the DC. Click on New Redistribute
under the Redistribute section

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6. No routes get redistributed into OSPF but we want to ensure that WAN Routes are advertised into the DC LAN. For
this purpose, choose OMP and click on Add. This will redistribute OMP routes into OSPF

7. Under the Area section, click on New Area

8. Set the Area Number as a Global value of 0. Our OSPF neighborships will be formed on Area 0. Click on Add
Interface

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 9. Click on Add Interface again to add the OSPF Interfaces

10. Specify the Interface Name as a Global value of ge0/2 and click on Add. This is our LAN facing Interface in VPN 10

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11. Click on Add under the Area section to Add these details to the OSPF Template

12. Click on Save to save the OSPF template

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13. This should take you back to the vedge-vpn10 Template configuration window. If it doesn’t, navigate to it manually and
populate the DC-OSPF template in the OSPF field. Click on Save

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14. Make sure that the VPN 10 Service VPN has OSPF, VPN Interface tacked on to it and click on Update

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15. We are taken to the configuration page for the individual devices at the DC. There is nothing that needs to
be configured, so we can click on Next

16. Review the side by side config diff (notice the OSPF configuration added) and click on Configure Devices.
Confirm this configuration change

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This completes the OSPF related configuration on VPN 10 for the DC-vEdges.

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 Task List

Overview
Updating the vEdge Service VPN 10 with an OSPF Template
Activity Verification

Activity Verification
1. On the vManage GUI, navigate to Monitor => Network. Click on DC-vEdge1 and then on Real Time. Enter OSPF
Neighbors in the Device Options and choose Do Not Filter, if prompted. You should see 2 OSPF Neighbors (Central
Gateway and DC-vEdge2)

2. Enter OSPF Routes in the Device Options and choose Do Not Filter if prompted

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3. You should see a Route for the 10.0.0.1/32 network, among others

4. The same information can be verified via console. Log in to DC-vEdge1 and issue show ospf neigh, show ospf
route and show ip route ospf

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5. Log in to console of vEdge-30 and issue a show ip route . You will notice that a route to 10.0.0.1/32 has been
learnt via OMP. Intra-Area and Inter-Area routes are injected into OMP by default

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6. Issue ping 10.0.0.1 vpn 10 from vEdge30 to verify connectivity with the advertised LAN side route at the
The pings should be successful

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Dynamic Service Side Routing at Site 40
Summary: Implementing Dynamic Service Side routing at Site 40 - EIGRP

Table of Contents
Overview

Updating the cEdge Service VPN 10 with an

EIGRP Template

Activity Verification and Remediation

Task List

Overview
Updating the cEdge Service VPN 10 with an EIGRP Template
Activity Verification and Remediation

Overview
We will run EIGRP on VPN 10 in Site 40 with an L3 Device. The L3 device has been configured with the corresponding
EIGRP configuration. Once EIGRP neighbourship is established between the L3 Device and cEdge40, we will try to reach a
route being advertised by the L3 Device (10.40.11.0/24) from the DC-vEdges.

Given below is the section of the topology that we will be working on for this activity

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 Task List
Overview
Updating the cEdge Service VPN 10 with an EIGRP Template
Activity Verification and Remediation

Updating the cEdge Service VPN 10 with an EIGRP Template

1. Go to Configuration => Templates and click on the three dots next to cEdge_dualuplink_devtemp. Click on Edit

2. Under Service VPN, click on the three dots next to the cedge-vpn10 template and choose to Edit it

3. Click on EIGRP under Additional Cisco VPN Templates to add an EIGRP Template

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4. Click on the EIGRP drop down and click on Create Template to create a new EIGRP Template. We are creating our Templates
on the fly over here, but could have created them before hand from the Feature Templates, if required

5. Give the template a name of site40-eigrp and a Description of EIGRP Template for Site 40 cEdge. Populate the
Autonomous System ID as a Device Variable with a value of eigrp_as_num. Click on New Redistribute under the
Unicast Address Family => Re-Distribute section

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6. No routes get redistributed into EIGRP but we want to ensure that WAN Routes are advertised into the Site 40 LAN.
For this purpose, choose OMP and click on Add. This will redistribute OMP routes into EIGRP

7. Under the Unicast Address Family section, click on the Network tab. Click on New Network and Enter a Global
Network Prefix of 10.40.10.0/24. Click on Add

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8. Under Interface, click on Interface to add a new one. Enter the Interface Name as GigabitEthernet4 and click on
Add. This is our LAN facing interface in VPN 10 on cEdge40

9. Make sure the EIGRP template looks like the image given below and click on Save to save the template

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10. This should take you back to the cedge-vpn10 Template configuration window. Populate the site40-eigrp template in
the EIGRP field. Click on Save

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11. Make sure that the VPN 10 Service VPN has Cisco VPN Interface Ethernet, EIGRP tacked on to it and click on
Update

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12. We are taken to the configuration page for the cEdge40. Enter the Autonomous System ID as 40 and click on Next

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 13. Review the side by side config diff (notice the EIGRP configuration added) and click on Configure Devices.

This completes the EIGRP related configuration on VPN 10 for the Site 40 cEdge.

Task List

Overview
Updating the cEdge Service VPN 10 with an EIGRP Template
Activity Verification and Remediation

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Activity Verification and Remediation
1. Log in to the Console of cEdge40. The username and password are admin. Enter show ip eigrp vrf 10 40
neighbors to view the EIGRP neighbors in VPN 10, AS 40. We will see one neighbor (the L3 Device)

2. Run show ip route vrf 10 - you should see a 10.40.11.0/24 route learnt via EIGRP

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3. Log in console to DC-vEdge1 and try to ping an IP in the 10.40.11.0/24 network. Type ping vpn 10 10.40.11.1 -
the pings should fail. Issue show ip route vpn 10 and you will notice that there is no route for the 10.40.11.0/24
subnet.

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4. This is due to the fact that EIGRP routes aren’t advertised into OMP. To remedy this, we will need to modify our cEdge
Template. Go to Configuration => Templates => Feature tab and click on the three dots next to cedge-vpn10.
Choose to Edit

5. Navigate to the Advertise OMP section and set EIGRP to Global - On. Click on Update

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6. Click Next on the Device page since we don’t have to update any values. Note that this change will be pushed to
multiple devices, even those that don’t have EIGRP configured (e.g., Site 50 Devices). We need to make sure that this
change is pushed to the Site 40 cEdge

7. Check the side by side configuration, noting that EIGRP routes will now be advertised into OMP. Click on Configure
Devices

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8. Confirm the change (pushed to 3 devices) and click on OK

9. Wait for the change to successfully go through

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10. Once successful, go to the CLI for DC-vEdge1 and issue show ip route vpn 10 again. You should see routes for
10.40.11.0/24

11. Run a ping to 10.40.11.1 via the CLI ping vpn 10 10.40.11.1 . It should be successful

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This completes the EIGRP verification and remediation activity.

Task List

Overview
Updating the cEdge Service VPN 10 with an EIGRP Template
Activity Verification and Remediation

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Configuring Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
Summary: Using Configuration Templates to set up VRRP as a First Hop Redundancy Protocol at Site 50.

Table of Contents
Editing Templates to support VRRP

Verification and Testing

Task List

Editing Templates to support VRRP

Verification and Testing

Editing Templates to support VRRP

1. On the vManage GUI, navigate to Configuration => Templates => Feature Tab

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2. Locate the cedge-vpn10-int template and click on the three dots next to it. Choose to Copy and name the copied
template cedge-vpn10-int-vrrp. Enter a Description of VPN 10 Interface Template for cEdges with VRRP. Click on
Copy

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3. Click on the three dots next to the newly copied template and click on Edit

4. Navigate to the VRRP section and click on New VRRP. Update the parameters as shown in the table below, using the
image for reference. click on Add

Field Global or Device Specific (Drop Down) Value

Group ID Global 5

Priority Device Specific vpn10_if_vrrp_priority

Track OMP Global On

IP Address Global 10.50.10.100

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5. Click on Update

6. Go to the Device tab in Configuration => Templates and locate the cEdge-single-uplink Device Template. Click on
the three dots next to it and click Edit

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7. Scroll down to the Service VPN section and click on the three dots next to cedge-vpn10. Choose to Edit

8. Populate cedge-vpn10-int-vrrp for the Cisco VPN Interface Ethernet and click on Save

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9. Back at the main Device Template screen, click on Update

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10. Enter a Priority of 110 for cEdge50 and a priority of 100 for cEdge51. This will ensure that cEdge50 becomes the
MASTER, if available. Click on Next

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11. Click on Configure Devices

12. Confirm the configuration change and click on OK

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13. Once the configuration change goes through, log in to console of cEdge50 and cEdge51 via Putty and enter the
command show vrrp 5 Gig3 on both. We should see that cEdge50 is the MASTER and cEdge51 is the BACKUP

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 Task List

Editing Templates to support VRRP

Verification and Testing

Verification and Testing

1. Log in to site50pc, Right Click on to the VM and select Console.

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2. Log in to the Site50 PC. Search for terminal and click on the icon to open Terminal

3. Enter ping 10.100.10.2 . The pings should be successful. Let the pings run

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4. Back at the console for cEdge50, enter the commands to reload this Router. In privilege mode, type reload and confirm.
This is happening since there is a short while when both Routers respond to the pings (since we’ve done a soft
reboot of the router)

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5. Check the Console for site50-pc, you will notice Duplicate (DUP!) ping packets on the Terminal screen After a few seconds, the pings should stabilize and we’ll
receive a response from just cEdge51.

6. Issue show vrrp 5 Gig3 on the CLI of cEdge51 and you will notice that it is now the MASTER. Also, the priority of
cEdge51 has been set to 100 - this will play a role once cEdge50 comes up

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7. Wait for cEdge50 to come up (approx. 5 minutes). Once you’re able to SSH to it, issue show vrrp 5 Gig3 - you will
notice it has taken the role of MASTER (look at the priority - it’s 110, meaning cEdge50 will always be the MASTER if
available). Had we left both the devices at the default priority of 100, cEdge51 would have continued being the
MASTER even after cEdge50 came back up.

Changing the priority of cEdge50 to a higher value and forcing it to be the MASTER might cause issues since it’s
possible that the LAN/VRRP side of the Router comes up post a reboot before the WAN/OMP side is ready. This
might lead to a few dropped packets

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Thus, we have set up a First Hop Redundancy Protocol at Site 50. This completes our Verification and Testing.

Task List

Editing Templates to support VRRP

Verification and Testing

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TLOC Extensions at Site 20
Summary: Configuring TLOC Extensions for transport redundancy.

Table of Contents
Overview

Feature Templates for TLOC Extensions

Updating the VPN and Device Templates

Activity Verification

Task List

Overview
Feature Templates for TLOC Extensions
Creating the VPN Interface Template for the TLOC-EXT interface
Creating the VPN Interface Template for the Tunnel interface
Creating the BGP Template for the MPLS link
Updating the VPN and Device Templates
Activity Verification

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Overview

A number of sites have a couple of routers in place, but transport connectivity to just one of the available transports. In the
event of a link failure, there is no mechanism for traffic to be redirected over the other transport. That’s where TLOC
Extensions come in.

TLOC Extensions allow vEdge/cEdge routers with a single transport to utilize the link on another vEdge/cEdge router at the
same site. Given below is a graphical representation of what we’re trying to achieve in this section of the lab.

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vEdge20 is connected to the Internet transport whereas vEdge21 is connected to MPLS. If the Internet link goes down,
vEdge20 doesn’t have a way to utilize the MPLS link available at vEdge21. TLOC Extensions seek to remedy this.
vEdge/cEdge routers build IPSec tunnels across directly connected transports AND across the transport connected to the
neighboring vEdge/cEdge router to facilitate transport redundancy.

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Without TLOC Extensions, the vEdges at Site 20 look something like the images below. Note that both have control
connections to the vSmarts and vManage via the directly connected transport, which can be checked using the CLI show
control connections

BFD sessions are established across the directly connected transport as well. Check via the CLI show bfd sessions

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 Task List

Overview
Feature Templates for TLOC Extensions
Creating the VPN Interface Template for the TLOC-EXT interface
Creating the VPN Interface Template for the Tunnel interface
Creating the BGP Template for the MPLS link
Updating the VPN and Device Templates
Activity Verification

Feature Templates for TLOC Extensions

We will need to create a total of three Feature Templates for this section which will be applied to vEdge20 and vEdge21
Device Templates.

Towards the end of the lab, we will copy and modify the VPN 0 feature template used by the INET interface on vEdge20 to
allow for NAT. Both vEdges at Site20 use the same feature template for VPN 0 ge0/0 so making a change on one will impact
the other as well. Hence, we will be breaking off the vEdge20 VPN Interface template from the one being used. This new
template will be identical to the VPN 0 interface template being used at this Site, except for NAT being enabled on ge0/0.

Creating the VPN Interface Template for the TLOC-EXT interface

1. On the vManage GUI, click on Configuration => Templates and go to the Feature tab. click on Add Template and
search for vedge. Select vEdge Cloud from the list and choose VPN Interface Ethernet to create an Interface
Template

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2. Enter the details as shown in the table below. Use the images for reference. Click on Save once done

Section Field Global or Device Specific Value

(drop down)

Template NA Site20_TLOC_Ext_NoTunn
Name

Description NA Site 20 TLOC Extension Template without

Tunnel Configuration

Basic Shutdown Global No

Configuration

Basic Interface Device Specific if_name_notunn_tlocext

Configuration Name

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Basic IPv4 Device Specific if_ipv4_address_notunn
Configuration Address

Advanced TLOC Global ge0/0

Extension

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This completes configuration of the VPN Interface Template for TLOC Extension interfaces, without a Tunnel. Each
participating vEdge/cEdge will have an interface that will not have a Tunnel associated with it (but will have a TLOC
Extension association) and another one which will have a Tunnel (but won’t have a TLOC Extension associated with it).

Task List

Overview
Feature Templates for TLOC Extensions
Creating the VPN Interface Template for the TLOC-EXT interface
Creating the VPN Interface Template for the Tunnel interface
Creating the BGP Template for the MPLS link
Updating the VPN and Device Templates
Activity Verification

Creating the VPN Interface Template for the Tunnel interface

1. Navigate to Configuration => Templates => Feature tab and search for tloc. You should get one template (the one
we just created). Click on the three dots next to it and choose Copy

2. Rename the Template to Site20_Tunn_no_tlocext with a Description of Site 20 Template with Tunnel Configuration no
TLOC-Ext. Click on Copy

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3. Click on the three dots next to the newly created template and choose to Edit

4. Update the details as in the table below. Use the images for reference and click on Update when done

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Section Field Global or Device Specific (drop Value
down)

Basic Shutdown Global No

Configuration

Basic Interface Device Specific if_name_tunn_notlocext

Configuration Name

Basic IPv4 Address Device Specific if_ipv4_address_tunn

Configuration

Tunnel Tunnel Global On

Interface

Tunnel Color Device Specific tloc_if_tunnel_color_value

Tunnel Restrict Device Specific tloc_if_tunnel_color_restrict

Tunnel - Allow All Global On

Service

Advanced TLOC Default

Extension

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This completes the configuration of our second feature template.

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 Task List

Overview
Feature Templates for TLOC Extensions
Creating the VPN Interface Template for the TLOC-EXT interface
Creating the VPN Interface Template for the Tunnel interface
- Creating the BGP Template for the MPLS link
Updating the VPN and Device Templates
Activity Verification

Creating the BGP Template for the MPLS link

We will now set up the BGP template for eBGP peering on the MPLS link. This is so that the TLOC extension subnet
(192.168.26.0/24 in this case) can be advertised to the MPLS network.
1. On the vManage GUI, go to Configuration => Templates => Feature tab. Click on Add Template and search for
vedge. Select vEdge Cloud and scroll down to the Other Templates section. Choose BGP

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2. Enter the Template Name as vedge21_mpls_bgp_tloc and the Description as BGP Peering Template for TLOC
Extension on the MPLS link. Set Shutdown to a Device Specific variable of bgp_shutdown. Set AS Number to a
global value of 65534. This will be the AS number on our vEdge21 for BGP Peering

3. Under Unicast Address Family, set the Maximum Paths to 2. Click on the Network tab and click on New Network.
Enter the Network Prefix as a global value of 192.168.26.0/24 and click on Add. This is the subnet which will be
advertised in BGP

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4. Under Neighbor, click on New Neighbor and enter details as per the table below. Click on Add (don’t miss this - far
right corner) to Add the Neighbor details and then click on Save (bottom-middle of the screen) to Save this template

Section Field Global or Device Specific (drop down) Value

Neighbor Address Global 192.0.2.9

Neighbor Remote AS Global 65535

Neighbor Address Family Global On

Neighbor Address Family Global ipv4-unicast

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This completes the configuration of our BGP Template.

Task List

- Overview
Feature Templates for TLOC Extensions
Creating the VPN Interface Template for the TLOC-EXT interface
Creating the VPN Interface Template for the Tunnel interface
Creating the BGP Template for the MPLS link
Updating the VPN and Device Templates
Activity Verification

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 Tip: We are setting many of the fields to Global values since this is a lab environment. In production, it is
recommended to set certain fields as Device Specific variables so that the templates can be re-used as and when
required, for disparate device configurations. The best-case scenario is to have as much common configuration
between devices/sites as is possible (global values) and then create Device Specific variables for the uncommon
parameters.

Updating the VPN and Device Templates

We will start by updating the existing VPN template for Site 20 (named Site20-vpn0) to include a default route with a next
hop to the corresponding TLOC Extension interface (i.e. to 192.168.26.21 on vEdge20 and 192.168.25.20 on vEdge21).
Device Specific variables will be used.

1. Navigate to Configuration => Templates => Feature tab on the vManage GUI. Search for site20 and you should see
the Site20-vpn0 template. Click on the three dots next to it and choose to Edit

2. Scroll down to the IPv4 Route section and click on the pencil icon next to 0.0.0.0/0 route to edit it

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3. Click on 1 Next Hop in the Update IPv4 Route popup

4. Click on Add Next Hop and set the new hop address to Device Specific with a name of tloc_ext_next_hop_ip. Click
on Save Changes

5. Click on Save Changes again, making sure that the Update IPv4 Routes field now shows 2 Next Hop

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6. Back at the VPN Feature template, make sure that the number 2 shows up under Selected Gateway Configuration
and click on Update

7. Populate the details for the Address (tloc_ext_next_hop_ip) for the two vEdges. vEdge20 should have 192.168.26.21
and vEdge21 should have 192.168.25.20 as the next hop IP. Click on Next

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8. You can view the side by side configuration if needed, and click on Configure Devices. Choose the confirm the
changes and click on OK

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9. To edit the Device Template and bring everything together, navigate to Configuration => Templates on the vManage
GUI. Make sure you’re on the Device tab and locate the vedge_Site20_dev_temp template. Click on the three dots
next to it and choose to Edit

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10. Under Transport & Management VPN, click on BGP under Additional VPN 0 Templates. Click on VPN Interface
twice to add two VPN Interfaces over on the left-hand side. Populate the BGP template we created in the BGP field
(Named vedge21_mpls_bgp_tloc). Populate Site20_TLOC_Ext_NoTunn under the first VPN Interface and
Site20_Tunn_no_tlocext under the second VPN Interface. Click on Update

11. Click on the three dots next to vEdge20 and choose Edit Device Template. Enter the details as shown in the
table below, referencing the image and click on Update

Field Value

Interface Name (if_name_tunn_notlocext) ge0/4

IPv4 Address (if_ipv4_address_tunn) 192.168.26.20/24

Color (tloc_if_tunnel_color_value) mpls

Restrict (tloc_if_tunnel_color_restrict) Checked

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 Interface Name (if_name_notunn_tlocext) ge0/1

IPv4 Address (if_ipv4_address_notunn) 192.168.25.20/24

Shutdown (bgp_shutdown) Checked

12. Click on the three dots next to vEdge21 and choose Edit Device Template. Enter the details as shown in the table
below, referencing the image and click on Update and then click on Next

Field Value

Interface Name (if_name_tunn_notlocext) ge0/1

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IPv4 Address (if_ipv4_address_tunn) 192.168.25.21/24

Color (tloc_if_tunnel_color_value) public-internet

Restrict (tloc_if_tunnel_color_restrict) Unchecked

Interface Name (if_name_notunn_tlocext) ge0/4

IPv4 Address (if_ipv4_address_notunn) 192.168.26.21/24

Shutdown (bgp_shutdown) Unchecked

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13. View the side by side configuration (optional) and click on Configure Devices. Confirm the configuration change on 2
devices

Tip: It’s important to make another change to the Internet transport so that our TLOC Extension configuration
works as expected. We need to enable NAT on the VPN Interface associated with the Internet link. Unfortunately,
NAT can’t be enabled/disabled via Device Specific parameters so we will need to copy the VPN Interface
template, tweak it and then copy the Device Template to reference the new VPN Interface template. We will then
attach vEdge20 to this template.

14. From the vManage GUI, navigate to Configuration => Templates. On the Feature tab, search for vpn0. Locate the

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 site20_vpn0_int template and make a copy of it, renaming to site20_vpn0_int_nat and updating the description
accordingly

15. Click on the three dots next to the new site20_vpn0_int_nat template and choose to Edit. Set NAT to a global value of
On and click on Update

16. Make sure you’re on the Configuration => Templates Device tab and locate the vEdge_Site20_dev_temp template.
Make a copy of it, renaming to vEdge_Site20_dev_temp_nat and updating the description accordingly

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17. Choose to Edit the newly created vEdge_Site20_dev_temp_nat via the three dots next to it and update the VPN
Interface field under Transport & Management VPN to reflect the VPN Interface template we created in step 14/15.
The name of the newly created VPN Interface template is site20_vpn0_int_nat. Click on Update

18. Click on the three dots next to the vEdge_Site20_dev_temp_nat device template and click on Attach. Choose the
vEdge20 device and attach it. Click Next/Configure Device as the prompts pop up (nothing will need to be populated
since we’re using a device template copied from before with NAT set to On)

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This completes the configuration of TLOC Extensions at Site 20.

Task List

Overview
Feature Templates for TLOC Extensions
Creating the VPN Interface Template for the TLOC-EXT interface
Creating the VPN Interface Template for the Tunnel interface
Creating the BGP Template for the MPLS link
Updating the VPN and Device Templates
Activity Verification

Activity Verification
1. To verify that our configuration is working, log in to the CLI of vEdge20 and vEdge21. Issue the same commands as
before and compare with the output we had taken at the start of this section
Output of show control connections and show bfd sessions given below
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 Note: If you get output that looks like the image below for vEdge20 (i.e. there are 3 mpls TLOC control
connections and 2 public-internet connections, issue a clear control connections, wait for a couple of
minutes and run show control connections again. The output should match with what we see above.

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 2. Similarly, log in to vEdge21 and compare the output of the same commands (click here to compare the output).
Commands are again show control connections and show bfd sessions

We now see that the vEdges have established control connections over the transport connected to their counterpart at the
same site. BFD sessions are also established across the platform transports. Thus, we should see control connections and
bfd sessions across mpls on vEdge20 and across public-internet on vEdge21, along with their directly connected transport
connections/sessions.
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Task List

Overview
Feature Templates for TLOC Extensions
Creating the VPN Interface Template for the TLOC-EXT interface
Creating the VPN Interface Template for the Tunnel interface
Creating the BGP Template for the MPLS link
Updating the VPN and Device Templates
Activity Verification

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Configuring a Hub and Spoke topology
Summary: Moving the SD-WAN topology from the default of full mesh to a Hub and Spoke for a particular VPN
while leaving the other VPNs in full mesh.

Table of Contents
Overview

Creating a new DC VPN 20 Feature

Template

Creating the Policy

Configuring Network Constructs

Activity Verification

Task List

Overview
Creating a new DC VPN 20 Feature Template
Creating the Policy
Configuring Network Constructs
Adding a Custom Control Policy
Activity Verification

Overview
Cisco SD-WAN builds out a full mesh network between sites by default for all VPNs. This might not be desirable in some
cases, where there is a requirement of a Hub and Spoke or a partial mesh topology.

Cisco SD-WAN Policies allow us to enforce a custom topology, thereby controlling the data flow within our network. We will
be setting up a Hub and Spoke topology for VPN 20 at all Branch sites, steering data to the DC site, post which it will be
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routed to its destination. Other VPNs in the network will retain full mesh connectivity. First, let’s check the current status of
the connectivity.

1. Log in to the vManage GUI and navigate to Monitor => Network

2. Click on vEdge20 and scroll down to Troubleshooting. Click on it and then choose Trace Route

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3. Enter the Destination IP as 10.30.20.2, choose VPN as VPN - 20 and populate the Source/Interface as ge0/3. Click
on Start. You will notice that traffic is flowing directly between the two sites (i.e. Site 20 and Site 30) in VPN 20 (if
there are multiple hops shown in the image in your POD, run the test again)

4. Run another test, this time to the Destination IP of 10.40.20.2. Traffic again flows directly between the sites

5. Log in to the CLI of cEdge40 via Putty and issue a show ip route vrf 20 . We will see that routes point directly to
the sites, thereby facilitating full mesh connectivity

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6. Log in to the CLI of vEdge20 and issue a show ip route vpn 20 . Once again, routes are pointing directly to the
corresponding site, which is expected behaviour (you will see routes on the mpls color as well). We will be looking at
changing this in the upcoming sections

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 Task List

Overview
Creating a new DC VPN 20 Feature Template
Creating the Policy
Configuring Network Constructs
Adding a Custom Control Policy
Activity Verification

Creating a new DC VPN 20 Feature Template

Note: This section is optional. We will be testing just inter-site traffic so the changes in this section won’t come into
play, but if VPN 20 has to route all traffic through the DC, it might encompass Internet traffic as well. In this event, the
following configuration is needed to steer all unknown prefixes to the DC.

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1. Go to Configure => Templates => Feature tab on the vManage GUI

2. Locate the vedge-vpn20 Feature Template and click on the dots next to it. Choose to make a Copy of this template

3. Rename the template vedge-vpn20-DC with a Description of VPN 20 Template for vEdges at the Data Center and
click on Copy

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4. Click on the dots next to the newly created template and choose to Edit it. Make sure that the Template Name and
Description match and modify the Name field under Basic Configuration to a Global value of PoS

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5. Under IPv4 Route click on New IPv4 Route. Enter a Prefix of 0.0.0.0/0 and set the Gateway as Null 0. Toggle Enable
Null0 to a Global value of On and click on Add. Click on Update to update this Feature Template

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6. Go to Configuration => Templates => Device Tab and locate the DCvEdge_dev_temp. Click on the three dots to the
template and choose to Edit

7. Scroll to the Service VPN section, select the vedge-vpn20 Template and choose Remove VPN (don’t worry, we will
be adding it again, with the template we just created in steps 4 and 5)

8. Confirm removal of the VPN by clicking on Remove

9. Back on the Device Template, click on Add VPN under Service VPN. Move the vedge-vpn20-DC Template to the
Selected VPN Templates section and click on Next

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10. Click on VPN Interface under Additional VPN Templates and populate vedge-vpn20-int in the VPN Interface drop
down. Click on Add. This should take you back to the Device Template page. Click on Update

11. Click on Next followed by Configure Devices in the ensuing pages (you can choose to check the side by side
configuration before choosing to Configure Devices)

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12. Confirm the change on 2 devices (the DC-vEdges)

13. Once complete, go to console of vEdge20 via Putty and issue show ip route vpn 20 again. You should notice
default routes pointing to the DC-vEdges (at this point, site to site traffic will still not go via the DC-vEdges. For this, we
will need to implement control policies)

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We have completed updating our Device Template to support a Hub and Spoke topology for VPN 20. Enforcement of the
Hub and Spoke topology will be done in the following sections.

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 Task List

Overview
Creating a new DC VPN 20 Feature Template
Creating the Policy
Configuring Network Constructs
Adding a Custom Control Policy
Activity Verification

Creating the Policy

We will now start enforcement of the Hub and Spoke topology via Control Policies. This is kicked off by creating a Policy
which encompasses various Network Constructs (like Site Lists, VPN Lists etc.) that are used within the Policy.

Configuring Network Constructs

1. First, let’s create our overarching policy. Through this policy, we will create our Network Constructs. Click on
Configuration => Policies in the vManage GUI to start configuring the Policy

2. Click on Add Policy

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3. We will first create a Site List. Click on Sites and then choose New Site List. Give it a name of Branches and enter
20,30,40,50 in the Add Site section. Click on Add

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4. Three more Site Lists need to be created in a similar fashion. Some won’t be used right now, but it’s best to create
them while we’re here. Use the table and images below as reference points

Site List Name Add Site

DC 1000

Site30 30

Site40 40

Site List for the DC

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5. Once all the Site Lists are configured, it should look like this

6. Click on VPN on the left-hand side and click on New VPN List. Specify the VPN List Name as Corporate and enter 10
under Add VPN. Click on Add

7. Repeat Step 6 two more times to create VPN Lists for PoS and Guest. They will have VPNs of 20 and 30 associated
with them, respectively

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8. Click on TLOC on the left-hand side then click on New TLOC List. Give a List Name of DC-TLOCs. Specify the
following values (click Add TLOC 3 times - this will add the number of rows we need)

TLOC IP Color Encap

10.255.255.11 public-internet ipsec

10.255.255.11 mpls ipsec

10.255.255.12 public-internet ipsec

10.255.255.12 mpls ipsec

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9. The DC-TLOCs list should look like the following image. Click on Next

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We will pause here since configuration of the Network Constructs is complete for our Control Policy. These will be used as
building blocks for our policies. Configuration of the policy itself will continue in the next section (carrying on from the page
we’re at in the vManage GUI).

Task List

Overview
Creating a new DC VPN 20 Feature Template
Creating the Policy
Configuring Network Constructs
Adding a Custom Control Policy
Activity Verification

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Adding a Custom Control Policy

Continuing from the previous section, let’s build out our Custom Control Policy to enforce a Hub and Spoke Topology on
VPN 20

1. You should be at the Configure Topology and VPN Membership page after the previous section. Click on Add
Topology and choose Custom Control (Route & TLOC)

2. Specify a Name of HnS-VPN20 with a Description of Hub and Spoke for VPN 20 only. Click on Sequence Type and
choose to add a Route Control Policy

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3. Click on Sequence Rule to add a new rule

4. Under Match click on Site and populate Branches in the Site List (this is one of the Site Lists we had created before)

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5. Still under Match, click on VPN and choose PoS in the VPN List

Through these two match conditions, we have specified that this rule applies to the site list Branches (which contains
Site IDs 20, 30, 40 and 50) and to the PoS VPN (which has VPN 20 in it)

6. Move over to the Actions tab and click on Accept. Then click on TLOC and populate DC-TLOCs in the TLOC List.
Click on Save Match and Actions

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7. Go to the Default Action and click on Accept. Click Save Match and Actions

8. The HnS-VPN20 policy should look like the image below. Click on Save Control Policy

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9. Click on Next since we don’t want to add any more Policies and then Next again (since we aren’t doing any
Application Aware Routing, Data Policies or NetFlow policies as of now)

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10. You should be presented with a screen which asks for a Policy Name, among other things. This can be a bit confusing
since we just gave a Policy Name before (called HnS-VPN20). The easiest way to wrap your head around this is think
of creating a Master Policy and before we can name this Master Policy, we are asked to create Sub-Policies in it. So
far, we have just created a Sub Policy and given it a name. At this point, we are being asked to give a name to our
Master Policy, which will then need to be applied.

Enter a Policy Name of Hub-n-Spoke-VPN20-only and give a Policy Description of Hub and Spoke policy for VPN 20
only. Click on New Site List under HnS-VPN20 and populate Branches in the Outbound Site List. Click on Add

Tip: Control Policies (such as the one you just built) are enforced by vSmart. Hence, the policy you just
created is from the perspective of vSmart. The application of this policy is enforced in an outbound direction
towards branch sites (i.e. Branches Site List). Think of how a BGP Route-Reflector would modify the next-hop of
routes it receives before sending them back out to neighbors.

Click on Save Policy

11. Back at the main Policy page, we should see the Hub-n-Spoke-VPN20-only Master Policy created. Click on the three
dots next to it and choose to Activate the policy

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 12. Confirm the activation by clicking on Activate

This completes our policy creation and activation. We will verify functionality in the upcoming section.

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 Task List

Overview
Creating a new DC VPN 20 Feature Template
Creating the Policy
Configuring Network Constructs
Adding a Custom Control Policy
Activity Verification

Activity Verification
1. Log in to cEdge40 and run show ip route vrf 20 . When compared to the output of this command taken before we
applied our policy, we see that all routes are now pointing to the DC-vEdges. Check Step 5 of Overview for the earlier
output

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2. On the vManage GUI, go to Monitor => Network and click on vEdge20. Scroll down on the left-hand side and click
on Real Time. Enter IP Routes in Device Options and choose to Filter. Filter on the basis of VPN ID 20. We will
notice similar output as what was seen for cEdge40

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3. Go to Troubleshooting and choose Trace Route. Enter the Destination IP as 10.30.20.2 with a VPN of VPN - 20 and
a Source/Interface of ge0/3. Traffic is now reaching the destination via the DC-vEdge

4. Run the traceroute for 10.40.20.2 and we see that traffic is being routed through the DC-vEdge in this case as well

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 5. Try to do a traceroute to 10.40.10.2, changing the VPN to VPN - 10 and the Source/Interface to ge0/2 and we will
notice that VPN 10 still has full mesh connectivity

Thus, all traffic from VPN 20 in the Branches is being steered to the DC-vEdges in a Hub and Spoke topology, whereas
traffic still utilizes a Mesh topology for other VPNs.

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 Task List

Overview
Creating a new DC VPN 20 Feature Template
Creating the Policy
Configuring Network Constructs
Adding a Custom Control Policy
Activity Verification

Setting up a Regional Hub

Summary: Steering all traffic from Site 20 to a Regional Hub (Site 30).

Table of Contents
Pre-Configuration
Adding the Policy

Verification

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 Task List

Pre-Configuration
Adding the Policy
Setting up Site Lists
Adding Custom Control policies
Policy for Traffic from Site 20 to the Regional Hub
Policy for Traffic from the Fabric to Site 20
Saving and Activating the Policy
Verification

Pre-Configuration

In this section, we will ensure that whenever communication has to happen in/out of Site 20, it goes through Site 30. This
means there will be two parts to the configuration - how Site 20 talks to other sites, and how other sites talk to Site 20. Site
30 will function as a Regional Hub for Site 20. Given below is the traffic flow we’re looking to achieve.

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Notice that all sites communicate to Site 20 via Site 30. Conversely, Site 20 punts all outbound traffic to Site 30.

1. We will first deactivate the Hub and Spoke policy created for VPN 20. On the vManage GUI, navigate to
Configuration => Policies and click on the three dots next to the Hub-n-Spoke-VPN20-only policy. Choose to
Deactivate it

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2. Confirm the Deactivation

3. Verify that traffic for VPN 20 is now flowing per the default Mesh topology. Navigate to Monitor => Network and click
on vEdge20. Scroll down on the left-hand side to Real Time and enter IP Routes in the Device Options. Choose to
Filter on the basis of VPN ID 20

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 Task List

Pre-Configuration
Adding the Policy
Setting up Site Lists
Adding Custom Control policies
Policy for Traffic from Site 20 to the Regional Hub
Policy for Traffic from the Fabric to Site 20
Saving and Activating the Policy
Verification

Adding the Policy

Setting up Site Lists

1. Go to Configuration => Policies and click on Add Policy
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2. Click on Site and choose to add a New Site List. Populate the Site List Name as Fabric and Add Site of 1000,40,50
(i.e. all the Sites other than the Regional Hub and Regional Spoke sites). Click on Add

3. Click on New Site List again and give this Site List a Name of Site20 with an Add Site of 20. Click on Add. Click on
Next to move on to the Configure Topology and VPN Membership page, which we will continue configuring in the
next section

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4. Once all the sites are configured, it should look like this:

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 Task List

Pre-Configuration
Adding the Policy
Setting up Site Lists
Adding Custom Control policies
Policy for Traffic from Site 20 to the Regional Hub
Policy for Traffic from the Fabric to Site 20
Saving and Activating the Policy
Verification

Adding Custom Control Policies

Policy for Traffic from Site 20 to the Regional Hub

We will be adding two policies in this section - one for traffic destined to the rest of the network from Site 20 and one for
traffic destined to Site 20.

1. Continuing from the previous section, click on Add Topology and choose to add a Custom Control (Route and
TLOC) topology

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2. Give this Control Policy a Name of Site20-to-Reg and a Description of Site 20 to Regional Hub at Site 30. Click on
Sequence Type and choose TLOC

3. Choose to add a Sequence Rule and click on Site under Match. Populate the Site List as Site30

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4. Go to the Actions tab and choose Accept. Click on Save Match and Actions

5. Click on Sequence Type again and this time choose Route

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6. Click on Sequence Rule and go to the Actions tab. Click on Accept and click on TLOC. Click on the drop down for
selecting a TLOC List and click on New TLOC List

7. Enter Site30 as the List Name and choose to Add TLOC. This should give two rows. The TLOC IP is 10.255.255.31
(in both rows) and the Encap is ipsec. One row should have the color public-internet whereas the other row should
have mpls. Click on Save

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8. Click on the drop-down for the TLOC List and choose the Site30 List we just created. Click on Save Match and
Actions

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9. Make sure the configuration looks like the image given below and click on Save Control Policy. Note that there are
two Sequence Types - a TLOC and a Route, along with the Default Action

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 Continue with the next section for configuring another Control Policy.

Task List

Pre-Configuration
Adding the Policy
Setting up Site Lists
Adding Custom Control policies
Policy for Traffic from Site 20 to the Regional Hub
Policy for Traffic from the Fabric to Site 20
Saving and Activating the Policy
Verification

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Policy for Traffic from the Fabric to Site 20
1. Back at the Configure Topology and VPN Membership page, click on Add Topology. We will add another Custom
Control (Route & TLOC) policy

2. Give this Control Policy a name of Fabric-to-Site20 with a Description of Fabric traffic to Site 20. Click on Sequence
Type and choose TLOC. Click on Sequence Rule and select Site under Match. Populate Site20 in the Site List. Click
on Save Match and Actions since the default of Reject Enabled is what we want for this Control Policy

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3. Click on Sequence Type again and choose Route. Click on Sequence Rule and choose Site under the Match tab.
Populate Site20 in the Site List. Click on the Actions tab and choose Accept. Click on TLOC and populate Site30 from
the TLOC List drop down. Click on Save Match and Actions

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 4. Click on Default Action and choose Accept. Save Match and Actions to complete configuration of this Control Policy
and click on Save Control Policy

We will complete configuration of the Policy in the next section.

Task List

Pre-Configuration
Adding the Policy
Setting up Site Lists
Adding Custom Control policies
Policy for Traffic from Site 20 to the Regional Hub
Policy for Traffic from the Fabric to Site 20
Saving and Activating the Policy
Verification

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Saving and Activating the Policy
1. Click on Next two times from the page you’re on at the end of the previous section (this should take you to the Apply
Policies to Sites and VPNs page). Enter the Policy Name as Site20-Regional-Hub-Site30 and the Description as
Regional Policy for Site 20 to Site 30. Click on New Site List and populate Fabric in the Outbound Site List for the
Fabric-to-Site20 Custom Control Policy. Click on Add

2. Under the Site20-to-Reg Custom Control policy, click on New Site List and populate Site20 in the Outbound Site List.
Click on Add and then click on Save Policy

3. Click on the three dots next to the Site20-Regional-Hub-Site30 policy and choose to Activate it

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 4. Confirm the Activation

This completes the configuration of our Policy for making Site 30 a Regional Hub to Site 20. We will verify the configuration
done in the next section.

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 Task List

Pre-Configuration
Adding the Policy
Setting up Site Lists
Adding Custom Control policies
Policy for Traffic from Site 20 to the Regional Hub
Policy for Traffic from the Fabric to Site 20
Saving and Activating the Policy
Verification

Verification
1. On the vManage GUI, navigate to Monitor => Network and click on vEdge20. Scroll down to Troubleshooting (on the
left-hand side) and click on Trace Route. Enter the Destination IP as 10.100.10.1 with a VPN of VPN - 10 and a
Source/Interface of ge0/2. Click on Start

Notice that the traffic destined for the DC Service Side VPN is going through Site30 (10.30.10.2) and then getting
routed over to the DC-vEdge.

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2. Click on Tunnel on the left-hand side and notice that vEdge20 has a single Up tunnel with vEdge30 on public-internet
and one on mpls. Other tunnels are not up (as expected)

3. Click on Select Device in the top left-hand corner and choose vEdge21. You will notice a similar output here with
respect to the Tunnels

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 4. Go to Troubleshooting => Trace Route and enter the same details as before (i.e. a Destination of 10.100.10.1, VPN
of VPN - 10 and a Source/Interface of ge0/2). Click on Start

We see that traffic from vEdge21 destined for the DC-vEdge Service Side VPN traverses vEdge30 (10.30.10.2) before
being punted over to the DC-vEdge

5. To verify traffic flows towards Site20, choose Select Device from the top left-hand corner and select DC-vEdge1.
Enter the Destination IP of 10.20.10.2 with a VPN of VPN - 10 and a Source/Interface of ge0/2. Click on Start

Notice that over here as well, traffic from the DC-vEdge goes to Site20 through Site30.

This completes the configuration of our Regional Hub.

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Implementing Custom Traffic Engineering
Summary: Influencing Path selection and facilitating custom traffic engineering in Cisco SD-WAN

Table of Contents
Overview

Deploying a Policy

Verification

Task List

Overview
Deploying a Policy
Setting up Groups of Interest and Traffic Rules
Applying and Activating the Policy
Verification

Overview
The Cisco SD-WAN solution builds a full mesh topology by default and there isn’t any traffic engineering that is in place out
of the box. The ability to steer application traffic per the network requirements via a specific path is something that can be
achieved via data policies. We can leverage data policies to match specific traffic and send it via the preferred transport. To
verify current functionality:

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1. Log in to the vManage GUI and navigate to Monitor => Network

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2. Click on vEdge30 and scroll down the list on the left-hand side to Troubleshooting

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4. Enter VPN - 10 as the VPN, ge0/2 as the Source/Interface and 10.0.0.1 as the Destination IP. Click on Simulate

We find that general traffic uses all possible available transports to send data to the other side.

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 5. Keep all details the same, but this time choose ftp under Application. Click Simulate

Once again, ftp traffic is also attempting to take all possible transports.

In our example, we will assume that the requirement is to send FTP traffic over the MPLS link (preferred).

Task List

Overview
Deploying a Policy
Setting up Groups of Interest and Traffic Rules
Applying and Activating the Policy
Verification

Deploying a Policy
We begin by creating a Policy and identifying Groups of Interest (or interesting traffic). The policy is then expanded to
encompass a Data Policy.
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Setting up Groups of Interest and Traffic Rules
1. On the vManage GUI, navigate to Configuration => Policies.

2. Under Centralized Policy, click on Add Policy to create a new Policy

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3. We will be making use of the Site30 Site List created before. Click on Next two times.

4. Make sure you are under Configure Traffic Rules. Click on the Traffic Data tab and choose to Add Policy. Click on
Create New

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5. Given the policy a name of ftp-mpls and a description of FTP via MPLS. Click on Sequence Type and choose Traffic
Engineering as the Data Policy

6. Click on Sequence Rule and choose Application/Application Family List as the match condition. Click on the drop-
down for the Application/Application Family List and click on New Application List

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7. Give the Application List Name as ftp and select File Transfer Protocol and File Transfer Protocol Data under the
Select Application drop down

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8. Make sure the Application List looks like the image below and click on Save. We are defining the interesting traffic
over here via this Application List

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10. Click on the Actions tab and choose Accept. Select Local TLOC and choose the Local TLOC List: Color as mpls.
Set the Local TLOC List: Encapsulation to IPSEC. Click on Save Match and Actions

11. Choose Default Action on the left-hand side and click on the pencil icon to edit the default action

12. Select Accept and click on Save Match and Actions

13. Back at the Data Policy window, click on Save Data Policy

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 14. At the main Policy window, click on Next

Continue to the steps in the next section.

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 Task List

Overview
Deploying a Policy
Setting up Groups of Interest and Traffic Rules
Applying and Activating the Policy
Verification

Applying and Activating the Policy

Continuing from the Setting up Groups of Interest and Traffic Rules, we will now finalize our policy and activate it.

1. Give the Policy a name of traffic-engineering-ftp and a description of Traffic Engineering for FTP. Click on the Traffic
Data tab and click on New Site List and VPN List. Leave the From Service radio button selected and populate
Site30 in Select Site List and Corporate in the Select VPN List. Click on Add and then click on Save Policy

2. This should create our traffic-engineering-ftp policy. Click on the three dots next to it and choose Activate

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 Tip: At this point we have created multiple policies and are activating them as we go along. However, this is
not a standard practice. At a time, only one policy can be active so all our Policy requirements are generally
concatenated into a single policy. Separate policies have been created in the lab for simplicity.

3. Click on Activate

We have now deployed our Policy.

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 Task List

Overview
Deploying a Policy
Setting up Groups of Interest and Traffic Rules
Applying and Activating the Policy
Verification

Verification
In order to verify that traffic flows have changed, we will be comparing the output in the Overview section to output which
will be taken here.
1. On the vManage GUI, go to Monitor => Network and select vEdge30. Scroll down to Troubleshooting on the left-
hand side and click on Simulate Flows

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2. Enter VPN - 10 for the VPN and ge0/2 for the Source/Interface. The Destination IP will be 10.0.0.1. Click on
Simulate

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 We can see that general traffic is still attempting to use all possible transports.

3. Set the Application to ftp and click on Simulate

FTP Traffic now flows via the MPLS transport, as per our requirement.

This completes the verification activity for this section.

Task List

Overview
Deploying a Policy
Setting up Groups of Interest and Traffic Rules
Applying and Activating the Policy
Verification

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Implementing Direct Internet Access
Summary: Setting up a Direct Internet Access policy for Guest Users at Site 40

Table of Contents
Overview

Creating and Activating a Policy

Verification

Task List

Overview
Creating and Activating a Policy
Verification

Overview
We will now shift focus to setting up our DIA site at Site40. Guest users will connect on VPN 30 and we need to ensure they
have access to the Internet. We will first verify that the PC at Site 40 does not have Internet access. The WAN Interface at
Site 40 on public-internet will then be updated for NAT and a Policy will be applied (which will include a Data Prefix list and a
Data Policy) to allow users on VPN 30 to access the Internet.

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1. Right click the site40pc and choose to stop, wait 30 seconds and then start (Sometimes the default gateway doesn't get populated
in the VM and a reboot fix that or you can run command “sudo ip route add default via 10.40.30.2”). Right Click on site40pc again, then click on console.

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 2. Open the Terminal

3. Type ping 8.8.8.8 and hit Enter. Pings should fail

We have thus verified that the Guest VPN user (with an IP of 10.40.30.21) doesn’t have internet access.

Task List

Overview
Creating and Activating a Policy
Verification

Creating and Activating a Policy

We will start by enabling NAT on the Internet interface and then continue with our Policy.
1. On the vManage GUI, navigate to Configuration => Templates => Feature Tab. Locate the cedge-vpn0-int-dual template created
before and click on the three dots next to it. Choose to Edit the template
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2. Scroll down to the NAT section and set NAT to a Global value of On. Click on Update

3. Click on Next since we don’t need to change anything on the device settings and then click on Configure Devices.
You can view the side by side configuration if you want to

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NAT should now be enabled on the public-internet transport

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4. Navigate to Configuration => Policies on the vManage GUI and click on Add Policy

5. Select Data Prefix List on the left-hand side under Create Groups of Interest and choose New Data Prefix List. Give
it a name of Guest-Site40 and specify the Add Data Prefix as 10.40.30.0/24. Click on Add and then click on Next
(Please click on Add BEFORE clicking on Next else the Data Prefix List will not get added)

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6. Click on Next on the Configure Topology and VPN Membership screen.

7. On the Configure Traffic Rules screen, click on the Traffic Data tab and choose Add Policy. Click on Create New

8. Give the Data Policy a name of Guest-DIA with a Description of Guest DIA at Site 40. Click on Sequence Type and choose Custom

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 9. Click on Sequence Rule and select Source Data Prefix under Match. Populate Guest-Site40 in the Source Data
Prefix List (we just created this Data Prefix list)

10. Click on the Actions tab and choose the Accept radio button. Select NAT VPN and click on Save
Match and actions

11. Click on Default Action over on the left-hand side and choose Accept. Click on Save Match and Actions

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12. Click on Save Data Policy

13. Make sure the Data Policy we just added shows up and click on Next

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14. Enter the Policy Name as Site40-Guest-DIA and a Description of DIA Policy for Site 40 Guests. Click on the Traffic
Data tab and choose New Site List and VPN List. Leave the radio button on From Service and choose Site40 under
Select Site List. Choose Guest under Select VPN List. Click on Add. Once added, click on Save Policy

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 15. Locate your Site40-Guest-DIA and click on the three dots next to it. Choose to Activate the policy

This completes the configuration of our DIA Policy.

Task List

Overview
Creating and Activating a Policy
Verification

Verification
1. To verify, log in to Console to the Site40 PC, as enumerated in the Overview section. On Terminal, enter
ping 8.8.8.8. The pings should succeed {These might fail due to dcloud FW policies not allowing ICMP}

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2. Click on the Mozilla Firefox icon on the Site40 PC and try to browse to sdwan-docs.cisco.com (or any other website).
It should work

Task List

Overview
Creating and Activating a Policy
Verification

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Configuring Application Aware Routing
Summary: Manipulate the path taken by traffic based on network parameters like latency, loss and jitter.

Table of Contents
Overview

Creating and Activating the AAR Policy

Viewing modified traffic flows and current

network statistics

Verify Policer configured for network

impairment

Applying the Policer on the MPLS link

Viewing changed statistics and resultant

traffic flows

Task List

Overview
Creating and Activating the AAR Policy
Viewing modified traffic flows and current network statistics
Verify Policer configured for network impairment
Verify the Policer List
Verifying the IPv4 ACL Policy
Applying the Policer on the MPLS link
Viewing changed statistics and resultant traffic flows

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Overview
While we can use Traffic Engineering to steer traffic towards a particular preferred transport, Application Aware Routing
takes things to a different level by not only allowing us to punt traffic over a preferred path, but also define SLA parameters
for traffic to be redirected if network conditions aren’t favourable for the type of traffic.

To set a baseline, we will first see how traffic flows on VPN 10 (let’s assume that this VPN has Voice traffic in it). We will then
implement AAR and SLA Classes to route traffic out a preferred transport and switch the chosen transport if SLA
parameters are not met.

To check existing traffic flows, follow the steps below:

1. Navigate to Monitor => Network and select cEdge40 from the list. Scroll down on the left-hand side and click on
Troubleshooting. Choose Simulate Flows. Choose a VPN of VPN - 10 and a Source/Interface of GigabitEthernet4.
Enter the Destination IP as 10.100.10.2 and click on Simulate. Notice that traffic is attempting to use all available
transports. If you receive an error of "Failed to run service path" as shown in the second image below, log in to
vCenter and right click on the cEdge40 VM for your POD. Choose Edit Settings and uncheck the "Connected" check
box for Network Adapter 4. Click on OK. Wait for 10 seconds and check the same checkbox again. Now try to simulate
the flow

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2. Click on Advanced Options and enter the DSCP value as 46 (i.e. VoIP RTP traffic). Click on Simulate. This traffic
also uses all possible transports, which might not be ideal for our network

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 Task List

Overview
Creating and Activating AAR Policy
Viewing modified traffic flows and current network statistics
Verify Policer configured for network impairment
Verify the Policer List
Verifying the IPv4 ACL Policy
Applying the Policer on the MPLS link
Viewing changed statistics and resultant traffic flows

Creating and Activating AAR Policy

We will now set up an AAR Policy for VoIP (i.e. DSCP 46) traffic.

1. On the vManage GUI, go to Configuration => Policies and click Add Policy. Click on Next twice (till you get to the
Configure Traffic Rules page) and click on Add Policy under Application Aware Routing. We thus have an
overarching Policy (let’s call it the Main Policy) and an application-aware routing policy within it. As of now, we will
configure the AAR routing policy. Towards the end, we will enter the details of the Main Policy

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2. Give this AAR Policy a name of VPN10-AAR and a Description of Transport Preference for Traffic in VPN 10. Click on
Sequence Type and then click on Sequence Rule. Under Match, select DSCP and enter a DSCP value of 46 under
Match Conditions

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3. Click on the Actions tab and choose SLA Class List. Click on the box under SLA Class and choose New SLA Class
List

4. Give the SLA Class a Name of Voice-SLA and specify the Loss % as 1. Enter 200 for the Latency and 15 for the
Jitter. Click on Save

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5. Still under actions, select the Voice-SLA SLA Class that we just created and set the Preferred Color to mpls. Click on
Save Match and Actions

6. Ensure your App Route looks like the image below and click on Save Application Aware Routing Policy. Click Next

7. At the Apply Policies to Sites and VPNs page, give the Policy a Name of AAR-VPN10 and a Description of
Transport Preference for VPN 10. Click on the Application Aware Routing tab and click on New Site List and VPN List.
Under Select Site List choose Branches and DC. Under Select VPN List choose Corporate. Click on Add

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8. Click on Save Policy in the lower middle part of the screen to save our AAR Policy

9. Click on the three dots next to the Site40-Guest-DIA policy created before and choose to Deactivate it (this needs to
be done due to a bug present in version 20.3.x of vManage, else Activation of the AAR policy we just created will give
an error of a "bad-element" in the configuration). Confirm the Deactivation. Once done, click on the three dots next to
the AAR-VPN10 policy we just created and choose to Activate it. Click on Activate again

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Task List

Overview
Creating and Activating the AAR Policy
Viewing modified traffic flows and current network statistics
Verify Policer configured for network impairment
Verify the Policer List
Verifying the IPv4 ACL Policy
Applying the Policer on the MPLS link
Viewing changed statistics and resultant traffic flows

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Viewing modified traffic flows and current network statistics
To view the changes made by the Policy on our network, follow the steps below.

1. On the vManage GUI, go to Monitor => Network and click on cEdge40. Choose Troubleshooting from the left-hand
column and click on Simulate Flows. Enter the VPN as VPN - 10 and the Source/Interface as GigabitEthernet4. Set a
Destination IP of 10.100.10.2 and click on Simulate. We find that traffic is taking all possible transports, just like before.
This is expected since we haven’t defined anything for regular traffic

2. On the same screen, click on Advanced Options and set the DSCP to 46. Click on Simulate

VoIP Traffic is now traversing the MPLS link as the preferred route.

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3. We will now check the current network statistics. Go to Monitor => Network => cEdge40 => Tunnel and put a check
mark against all the mpls Tunnel Endpoints. Click on Real-Time after scrolling up to the chart and make sure Packet
Loss/Latency is checked under Chart Options. We may see negligible packet loss occurring (let the chart run for 5
minutes before analyzing, it should get updated every few seconds)

Task List

Overview
Creating and Activating the AAR Policy
Viewing modified traffic flows and current network statistics
Verify Policer configured for network impairment
Verify the Policer List
Verifying the IPv4 ACL Policy
Applying the Policer on the MPLS link
Viewing changed statistics and resultant traffic flows

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Verify Policer configured for network impairment
In order to simulate impairment in the network (Packet Loss and Latency), we will use a Policer and a Shaper in this lab.
Over here, we will verify the policer list which is preconfigured, which will be applied to the MPLS link in order to simulate
Packet Loss.

Later on, we will leverage a Shaper to simulate Latency.

Verify the Policer List

1. On the vManage GUI, navigate to Configuration => Policies. Click on Custom Options (top right-hand corner).
Under Localized Policy click on Lists

2. Verify the Policer name “AAR-Impair-Policer-PL” is pre-configured as per the following screen.

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 Task List

Overview
Creating and Activating the AAR Policy
Viewing modified traffic flows and current network statistics
Verify Policer configured for network impairment
Verify the Policer List
Verifying the IPv4 ACL Policy
Applying the Policer on the MPLS link
Viewing changed statistics and resultant traffic flows

Verifying the IPv4 ACL Policy

1. Go to the Localized Policy tab and click on three dots next to Policer-AAR-Impairment, and select view.

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2. Click Access Control Lists Tab. Click on three dots next to Impair-PL-AAR and select View.

3. Verify how the policer is applied to all traffic, under match condition, since there is no statement, this means that all
traffic is going to be policed.

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Applying the Policer on the MPLS link
1. Navigate to Configuration => Templates => Feature Tab and locate the cedge-vpn0-int-dual_mpls VPN Interface
template. Click on the 3 dots next to it and choose to Copy

2. Rename it to cedge-vpn0-int-dual_mpls-impair and a Description cEdge VPN 0 Interface Template for Devices with a
dual uplink - MPLS with Impairment. Click on Copy

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3. Click on the three dots next to this newly copied template and click on Edit

4. Navigate to the ACL/QoS section and modify the following fields. Click on Update

Field Global or Device Specific (drop down) Value

Ingress ACL - IPv4 Global On

IPv4 Ingress Access List Global Impair-PL-AAR

Egress ACL - IPv4 Global On

IPv4 Egress Access List Global Impair-PL-AAR

5. Under Configuration => Templates go to the Device tab and locate the cedge_dualuplink_devtemp template. Click
on the three dots next to it and choose to Edit
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6. Under Transport & Management VPN, update the Cisco VPN Interface Ethernet from cedge-vpn0-int-dual_mpls to
cedge-vpn0-int-dual_mpls-impair. Make sure this is done on the VPN interface for the MPLS link

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7. Scroll down to the Additional Templates section and update the Policy to Policer-AAR-Impairment. Click on Update.
Click on Next

8. You can choose to view the side by side or simply click on Configure Devices

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This completes the implementation of our Policer on the MPLS link to simulate network impairment.

Task List

Overview
Creating and Activating the AAR Policy
Viewing modified traffic flows and current network statistics
Verify Policer configured for network impairment
Verify the Policer List
Verifying the IPv4 ACL Policy
Applying the Policer on the MPLS link
Viewing changed statistics and resultant traffic flows

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Viewing changed statistics and resultant traffic flows

1. Navigate to Monitor => Network and click on cEdge40. Click on Tunnel on the left-hand side and make sure all the
MPLS Tunnel Endpoint entries are selected, with the public-internet entries being unchecked. Click on Real Time (top
right corner) and the Chart Options drop-down (top left corner) is set to Loss Percentage/FEC Loss Recovery Rate.
Let this run for a few minutes - you will notice a spike in Packet Loss

2. Head over to Troubleshooting (left-hand side, might need to scroll down) and click on Simulate Flows. Enter the
VPN as VPN - 10, the Source/Interface as GigabitEthernet4 and the Destination IP as 10.100.10.2. Click on
Simulate. There should be no change in traffic flow for General traffic, which will still use all available transports

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3. Under Advanced Options, set DSCP to a value of 46 and click on Simulate. You will notice that VoIP traffic (i.e.
DSCP 46) is now taking the Internet path since MPLS doesn’t conform to the SLA requirements that we defined.
Compare the current traffic flow with the one in Step 2 over here

4. will now revert the configuration to what it was pre-impairment. Go to Configuration => Templates and locate the
cEdge_dualuplink_devtemp. Click on the three dots next to it and Edit. Change the Cisco VPN Interface Ethernet value
under Transport & Management VPN back to cedge-vpn0-int-dual_mpls and click on Update. Click on Next and Configure Devices

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 5. Wait for approximately 3 minutes and head over to Monitor => Network => cEdge40 => Troubleshooting => Traffic
Flows. Enter the same details as in Step 3 above and click on Simulate. VoIP traffic should traverse over the MPLS
link again

This completes the Application Aware Routing

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Configuring Low Latency Queuing and QoS
Summary: SD-WAN allows configuration of various QoS strategies to better support your business. Configure
QoS with LLQ for VoIP traffic

Table of Contents
Create a Localized Policy

Apply the ACL and QoS Map

Activity Verification

Task List

Create a Localized Policy

Add a Class List and a QoS Map
Configure the IPv4 ACL Policy
Complete and apply the localized policy
Apply the ACL and QoS Map
Activity Verification

While Application Aware Routing allows us to choose the path taken by traffic and switch paths based on SLA parameters,
QoS strategies in SD-WAN allow packets to be marked with standard DSCP values which are then utilized to prioritize
packets accordingly.

Let’s assume that our Corporate VPN (VPN 10) has, among other traffic, VoIP packets flowing through it. We would want to
follow some QoS strategy to ensure that these VoIP (RTP, Video and Signaling) packets are placed in a Low Latency
Queue, with corresponding strategies for other types of traffic.
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Create a Localized Policy
QoS in the SD-WAN world is implemented via Localized Policies. Differences in Localized and Centralized Policies can be
found over here .

Add a Class List and a QoS Map

1. On the vManage GUI, click on Configuration => Policies and choose the Localized Policy tab. Click on Add Policy

2. Under Create Groups of Interest click on Class Map on the left-hand side. Click on New Class List and specify the
Class as Voice. The Queue should be 0. Click on Save

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 This creates our Class List for VoIP traffic and puts the traffic in Queue 0.

3. Click on New Class List and create 3 more Class Lists, as shown below. Remember to hit Save after each Class List
is created

Class Queue

Video 1

BIZ-Data 2

Best-Effort 3

Once all the Class Lists are created, click on Next

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4. The Class Lists are referenced in QoS Maps. Under Configure Forwarding Classes/QoS, make sure you’re on the
QoS Map tab and click on Add QoS Map

5. Give the QoS Map a Name of WAN-QoS and a Description of WAN QoS. Click on Add Queue. Specify the following
details and click on Save Queue

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 Queue Bandwidth % Buffer % Scheduling Drops Forwarding Class

1 30 30 Weighted Round Robin Tail Video (Auto Populated)

(WRR)

6. Click on Add Queue and add a couple more queues as per the table given below. Remember to click on Save Queue
after you’re done setting up the Queue

Queue Bandwidth Buffer Scheduling Drops Forwarding Class

% %

2 40 40 Weighted Round Robin Random BIZ-Data (Auto

(WRR) Early Populated)

3 10 10 Weighted Round Robin Random Best-Effort (Auto

(WRR) Early Populated)

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Queue 2

Queue 3

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7. The wagon wheel that shows Queue Bandwidth and Buffer allocation should change to reflect the settings in the
Queues that were just created

8. The QoS Map queues should look like the image below. Click on Save Policy to save your QoS Map and then click
on Next

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 Notice that the Queue 0 Forwarding Class is populated as Control. Control network traffic (not related to VoIP) is also
included in Queue 0 by default. Any traffic that’s mapped to Queue 0 is regarded as LLQ traffic.

This completes the QoS Map configuration. We will continue with building our Main Policy in the next section.

Task List

Create a Localized Policy

Add a Class List and a QoS Map
Configure the IPv4 ACL Policy
Complete and apply the localized policy
Apply the ACL and QoS Map
Activity Verification

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Configure the IPv4 ACL Policy
1. Continuing from the QoS Map which we just built, you show now be at the Configure Access Control Lists page. An
ACL Policy can be used for classification of traffic on the LAN. Click on Add Access Control List Policy and choose
to Add IPv4 ACL Policy

2. Give the ACL Policy a Name of LAN-Classification and a Description of LAN Classification. Click on Add ACL
Sequence and then click on Sequence Rule. Make sure you’re on the Match tab and click on DSCP. Enter a DSCP
value of 46. This specifies our match criteria

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3. Click on the Actions tab and make sure the Accept radio button is selected. Click on Class and select the Voice
Class List which we created before. Click on Save Match and Action

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4. Click on Sequence Rule and follow the same procedure to create rules as per the following table. Use the images
below the table for reference (the actions tab should always have the Accept radio button selected). Make sure that
you click on Save Match and Actions once done creating each rule

DSCP Class

34 Video

26 BIZ-Data

Leave Blank Best-Effort

Sequence Rule for Video

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 Sequence Rule for BIZ-Data

Sequence Rule for Best-Effort

5. Verify that the Access Control List Policy looks like the image below (i.e. you should see 4 sequence rules, one for
each Class List with the corresponding DSCP values as match conditions) and click on Save Access Control List
Policy

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6. Click on Next twice and you should be at the Policy Overview page, which continues in the next section.

Task List

Create a Localized Policy

Add a Class List and a QoS Map
Configure the IPv4 ACL Policy
Complete and apply the localized policy
Apply the ACL and QoS Map
Activity Verification

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Complete and apply the localized policy
1. Continuing from the previous section, while on the Policy Overview page, give your policy a Name of QoS_Policy
and a Description of QoS Policy. Under Policy Settings, put a check mark next to Application and set the Log
Frequency to 30 (this will come into play if you are going through the SD-AVC configuration section). Click on Save
Policy

2. Navigate to Configuration => Templates and locate the cedge_dualuplink_devtemp Device Template. Click on the
three dots next to it and choose to Edit. Click on Additional Templates

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3. Populate QoS_Policy in the Policy drop down. If you have gone through the Guest DIA configuration, note that this
will break Guest DIA functionality. In the real world, the QoS Policy we configured should be included within the same
policy. Click on Update

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 4. Click on Next and then Configure Devices. You can view the side by side configuration, if you want to

We have completed application of the QoS Policy for our Device. This will create the QoS Maps and
inject the corresponding Queues in the Scheduler.

Tip: vManage pushes the forwarding class names as Queue0, Queue1 etc. along with the created Class Names.
Queue0, Queue1 etc. are the ones which are actually used in the qos-map but the settings are based on the defined
class names (e.g. Voice, Video, BIZ-Data etc. for our lab). This is expected behaviour. Additionally, you will NOT see
Queue 2 in the QoS policy-map interface output since that is used for Best Effort traffic by default. However, if we were
to map the Queues to 0 for Voice, 1 for Video, 3 for BIZ-Data and 4 for Best-Effort, all 4 queues will show up.

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 Task List

Create a Localized Policy

Add a Class List and a QoS Map
Configure the IPv4 ACL Policy
Complete and apply the localized policy
Apply the ACL and QoS Map
Activity Verification

Apply the ACL and QoS Map

We have created the QoS strategy for our network, the only thing that’s left is to apply and test our QoS configuration.

To apply the configuration, we will be modifying the Service VPN 10 interface such that traffic is classified on the basis of the
ACL we created, in the inbound direction.

The QoS Map will be applied in the outbound direction on the WAN interfaces (INET and MPLS)

1. Navigate to Configuration => Templates => Feature Tab and locate the cedge-vpn10-int Feature Template. Click on
the three dots next to it and choose to Copy the Template. Give a name of cedge-vpn10-int-qos to the copied
template with a Description of VPN 10 Interface Template for cEdges with QoS and click on Copy

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2. Locate the newly copied cedge-vpn10-int-qos Feature Template and click on the three dots next to it. Choose to Edit
the template. Make sure the Description is updated and scroll down to the ACL/QoS section. Set Ingress ACL - IPv4
to a Global value of On and enter LAN-Classification as the IPv4 Ingress Access List. This needs to match with the
ACL we created (case sensitive). Click on Update

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3. Navigate to the Device tab in Configuration => Templates and locate the cedge_dualuplink_devtemp. Click on the
three dots next to it and choose Edit

4. In the Service VPN section, click on the three dots next to the cedge-vpn10 Template and choose Edit

5. Change the template under Cisco VPN Interface Ethernet to cedge-vpn1-int-qos and click on Save

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6. Click on Next and choose to Configure Devices. The side by side configuration can be viewed and we should see
the LAN-Classification ACL being applied on GigabitEthernet4 (Service VPN Interface for VPN 10) in the incoming
direction

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7. Head back over to Configuration => Template => Feature Tab and locate the cedge-vpn0-int-dual template. Click on
the three dots next to it and click Edit. We will be updating the VPN 0 Internet interface with the QoS Map we created
before

8. Under the ACL/QOS section, specify the QoS Map as a Global value and enter WAN-QoS (case sensitive, should
match with the QOS Map we created before). Click on Update

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9. Click on Next and then Configure Devices. If you want, inspect the side by side configuration before clicking on
Configure Devices and you will notice that the WAN-QoS Policy will be applied to GigabitEthernet2 (WAN VPN 0
Interface for INET)

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10. Under the Configuration => Template => Feature Tab locate the cedge-vpn0-int-dual_mpls template. Click on the
three dots next to it and click Edit. We will be updating the VPN 0 MPLS interface with the QoS Map we created
before

11. Under the ACL/QOS section, specify the QoS Map as a Global value and enter WAN-QoS (case sensitive, should
match with the QOS Map we created before). Click on Update

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12. Click on Next and then Configure Devices. If you want, inspect the side by side configuration before clicking on
Configure Devices and you will notice that the WAN-QoS Policy will be applied to GigabitEthernet3 (WAN VPN 0
Interface for MPLS). Check the configuration pushed by logging in to the CLI for cEdge40 via Console and issue show
running | sec interface Gig . We should see the WAN_QoS policy applied under GigabitEthernet2 and
GigabitEthernet3

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 Task List

- Create a Localized Policy

Add a Class List and a QoS Map
Configure the IPv4 ACL Policy
Complete and apply the localized policy
Apply the ACL and QoS Map
Activity Verification

Activity Verification
1. Log in to the cEdge40 via Console and issue clear policy-map counters . Confirm that you want to clear the
counters. Now issue a show policy-map interface Gig2 and a show policy-map interface Gig3 . You will
notice the number of packets incrementing in Queue0 (this includes VoIP packets via configuration and Control
packets by default). Run the two commands given above multiple times and take notice of Queue3 and Queue0.
Queue3 should not increment, whereas Queue0 will keep incrementing

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2. Locate VM site40-pc2 and open console.
3. Type ping 10.100.10.2. Let the pings run for a few seconds,
making note of how many packets did we receive a response for (look at the icmp_seq field) and then stop the pings
by pressing Ctrl + C. We let the ping run for 70 packets

4. Issue show policy-map interface Gig2 and show policy-map interface Gig3 again, on the cEdge40 CLI.

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Queue3 in one of the outputs (depends on the path taken by the packets) should reflect an increment in the number of
packets

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Thus, traffic is being matched as per our QoS strategy. However, we won’t be able to test other queues since ESXi (the
VMWare environment in which our lab is running) doesn’t allow packet tags to be propagated over Standard vSwitches (the
virtual switch). Queue0 shows up since this traffic is generated natively by the Router in question.
An extended ping directly from the Router yields unpredictable results, with traffic usually getting matched to class class-
default (optional - you can try this out).

This completes our QoS activity verification.

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Task List

Create a Localized Policy

Add a Class List and a QoS Map
Configure the IPv4 ACL Policy
Complete and apply the localized policy
Apply the ACL and QoS Map
Activity Verification

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Configuring a Zone Based Firewall for Guest DIA
users
Summary: Implementing a Zone Base Firewall at Site 40 for Guest Direct Internet Access users

Table of Contents
Overview

Activate NAT DIA Policy

Setting up Lists

Creating a Security Policy

Applying the Policy and Verification

Task List

Overview
Activate NAT DIA Policy
Setting up Lists
Configuring Zones
Configuring an Application List
Creating a Security Policy
Applying the Policy and Verification

Overview
Since we have users on the Guest network accessing the Internet through the DIA VPN, we might want to lock down what
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they can/cannot access. Cisco SD-WAN has an in-built Zone Based Firewall which can perform Deep Packet Inspection,
allowing and/or blocking/inspecting traffic as need be. While this is a slightly stripped-down version of a ZBF, it is quite
robust in functionality and offers an intuitive GUI (in the form of vManage) for deploying Firewall Rules.

In this section we will be configuring and deploying a Zone Based Firewall in our network. Guest users will be able to access
most Web content but they won’t be able to access Web based emails (like Gmail). We will see the corresponding activity on
the ZBF in the CLI and on the GUI.

Task List

Overview
Activate NAT DIA Policy
Setting up Lists
Configuring Zones
Configuring an Application List
Creating a Security Policy
Applying the Policy and Verification

Activate NAT DIA Policy

1. On the vManage GUI, go to Configuration => Policies and locate the Site40-Guest-DIA. Click on the three dots next
to it and choose to Activate. Confirm the Activation

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 2. Go back to the console for the Site40-PC and open Terminal. (Start => search for terminal => click on the icon).
Type ping 8.8.8.8 and hit Enter to verify Internet connectivity
*Pings are not allowed through dcloud environment, try “nslookup www.google.com” instead, this should succeed.

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Setting up Lists
We start off by configuring a few Lists that form the building blocks of our ZBF. The following lists will be created

Zone List for identifying the Guest and Outside zones

Application List for identifying webmail traffic and allowing all other TCP traffic to ports 80 and 443

Configuring Zones
1. On the vManage GUI, go to Configuration => Security

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3. Click on Zones on the left-hand side and choose to create a New Zone List. Give the Zone List Name as Guest and
Add VPN as 30. Click on Add

4. Click on New Zone List again and give the Zone List Name as Outside. Specify the Add VPN as 0. Click on Add

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5. Make sure that there are two Zone Lists in the configuration and move to the next section of the guide (while staying
on the same page)

Task List

Overview
Activate NAT DIA Policy
Setting up Lists
Configuring Zones
Configuring an Application List
Creating a Security Policy
Applying the Policy and Verification

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Configuring an Application List
1. From the previous section, click on Application in the top left corner of the screen after verifying that both the Zone
Lists are visible

2. Once Application is selected, click on New Application List and give the Application List Name of Guest-Inspect.
Choose Webmail from the drop down, making sure all the sub-items under webmail are selected as well

3. Click on Add to add this Application List

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We have created an Application List which can potentially identify Gmail, Mail.ru etc. traffic. We will now create our policy.

Task List

Overview
Activate NAT DIA Policy
Setting up Lists
Configuring Zones
Configuring an Application List
Creating a Security Policy
Applying the Policy and Verification

Creating a Security Policy

1. On the vManage GUI, navigate to Configuration => Security and click on Add Security Policy

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3. Under Firewall, choose to Add Firewall Policy. Click on Create New

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4. Click on Apply Zone Pairs

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5. Set the Source Zone as Guest and the Destination Zone as Outside. Click on Save

6. Ensure that Guest appears under Sources and Outside appears under Destinations. Give the Policy a name of Guest-
FW and a Description of Guest Traffic Firewall. Click on Add Rule

7. Click on Source Data Prefix and choose Guest-Site40 as the IPv4 Prefix List. Click on the Green Save button (be
careful, don’t click on the Blue Save button)

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8. Click on Application List and select the Guest-Inspect list we created. Click on the Green Save button (again, please
don’t click on the Blue Save button)

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9. Give the Firewall Rule a name of Drop Web App Guest and set the Action as Inspect. Note that over here no
matter what action we choose, the only one which gets applied whenever an application-based matching is done
is DROP, even though we have selected inspect (Inspect is the only action that can be selected). Click Save
(This time, we click the Blue Save button). Ensure that the Source Data Prefix and the Application List is populated

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10. Click on Add Rule again and select the Source Data Prefix IPv4 Prefix List as Guest-Site40. Click on the Green
Save button

11. Click on Destination Ports and set the Destination Ports as 80 443 (there is a space between the port numbers).
Click on the Green Save button

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12. Make sure the Firewall Rule looks like the image below and specify a Name of TCP Guest Pass Web. Specify the Action as Inspect.
Click on the Blue Save button.

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13. Make sure the Firewall Policy looks as below and click on Save Firewall Policy

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14. Click on Next and then Next again at the URL Filtering and TLS/SSL Decryption sections

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15. At the Policy Summary page, give a Security Policy Name of Site40-Guest-DIA and a Description of Guest Policy for
Site 40. Under Additional Policy Settings set the TCP SYN Flood Limit to Enabled and 5000. Enable Audit Trail as
well and click on Save Policy

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This completes the process of creating the Security Policy.

Task List

Overview
Activate NAT DIA Policy
Setting up Lists
Configuring Zones
Configuring an Application List
Creating a Security Policy
Applying the Policy and Verification

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Applying the Policy and Verification
1. Go to Configuration => Templates and click on the three dots next to the cEdge_dualuplink_devtemp Device
Template. Choose to Edit it

2. Under the Additional Templates section, populate the Security Policy as Site40-Guest-DIA and click on Update

3. Choose Next and then Configure Devices to push the Security Policy to cEdge40

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4. Open the Console session to the Site 40 PC and navigate to www.facebook.com. It should work indicating that Web
Traffic is allowed. Log in to the cEdge40 CLI via Putty and issue a show log. We should see some activity there.

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5. Open up a few tabs on the Site 40 PC (2 to 3 of them) and try to access www.gmail.com on all tabs. This should fail

6. On the vManage GUI, navigate to Dashboard => Security and you should see spikes in the Firewall Enforcement
dashlet (continue with the lab and check back after approximately 15 minutes to see this)

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Thus, our ZBF is working as expected, blocking webmail traffic on the Guest VPN while allowing other traffic on ports 80 and
443.

Task List

Overview
Setting up Lists
Configuring Zones
Configuring an Application List
Creating a Security Policy
Applying the Policy and Verification

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Installing and Configuring the IPS module on cEdges
Summary: Installing an IPS Engine on cEdges and testing signature detection for DIA Guest users

Table of Contents
Overview

Initial Configuration

Add the Security Policy

Updating the Application List and Device

Template

Verifying installation and performing

signature updates

Activity Verification

Task List

Overview
Initial Configuration
Revert Site 40 PC changes and enable DIA
Upload Image to vManage
Add the Security Policy

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 Firewall Policy Update
Add the IPS Policy and Finalize the Security Policy
Updating the Application List and Device Template
Verifying installation and performing signature updates
Activity Verification

Overview
An Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) allows the network to detect anomalies based on known signatures and block/report
them. The IPS module in Cisco SD-WAN can be deployed on Cisco IOS-XE SD-WAN Devices, working in Detect or
Prevention mode. This solution is an on-prem on-box feature providing PCI compliance.

Snort is leveraged on Cisco SD-WAN IOS-XEW Devices for IPS and IDS capabilities.

Task List

Overview
Upload Image to vManage
Add the Security Policy
Firewall Policy Update
Add the IPS Policy and Finalize the Security Policy
Updating the Application List and Device Template
Verifying installation and performing signature updates
Activity Verification

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Add the Security Policy
A Security Policy will be applied to the Device Template for cEdge40 to trigger IPS installation and functionality. We will be
setting up the policy over here, including the previously created Firewall Policy in our overarching Security Policy.

Firewall Policy Update

1. On the vManage GUI, navigate to Configuration => Security and choose Add Security Policy. Select Custom and
click on Proceed

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2. Under Firewall, click on Add Firewall Policy and choose Copy from Existing. We already have a Firewall Policy in
place but the Security Policy type chosen for it was Guest Access, which doesn’t have an option of including an IPS
policy. Hence, we will create a new custom policy which will include the Firewall Policy created before

3. Select Guest-FW as the Policy and specify the Policy Name as Guest-FW_concat. Give a Description of Guest Traffic
Firewall with IPS. Click on Copy

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 4. The Firewall Policy we just copied should show up. Click on Next

Configuration of the Security Policy continues in the next section.

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 Task List

Overview
Initial Configuration
Upload Image to vManage
Add the Security Policy
Firewall Policy Update
Add the IPS Policy and Finalize the Security Policy
Updating the Application List and Device Template
Verifying installation and performing signature updates
Activity Verification

Add the IPS Policy and Finalize the Security Policy

1. Under the Intrusion Prevention page, click on Add Intrusion Prevention and choose Create New

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2. Click on Target VPNs and enter a VPN of 30. Click on Save Changes

3. Under the Intrusion Prevention - Policy Rule Configuration, enter the following details and click on Save Intrusion
Prevention Policy

Policy Name Signature Set Inspection Mode Alerts Log Level

Guest-IPS Security Protection Info

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4. Back at the main Security Policy page, click on Next 5 times

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 5. Enter the details as shown in the table below and click on Save Policy

Security Policy Name Security Policy Description TCP SYN Flood Limit Audit Trail

Guest-FW-IPS-DIA Guest Firewall and IPS DIA Enabled On

5000

This completes the configuration of our Security Policy.

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 Task List

Overview
Initial Configuration
Upload Image to vManage
Add the Security Policy
Firewall Policy Update
Add the IPS Policy and Finalize the Security Policy
Updating the Application List and Device Template
Verifying installation and performing signature updates
Activity Verification

Updating the Application List and Device Template

The Application List attached to the Firewall Policy that we had earlier will need to be instantiated again before we can use
it. For that, we will make a dummy modification to the Application List

1. On the vManage GUI, go to Configuration => Security. Click on Custom Lists (top right-hand corner) and choose
Lists

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2. Identify the Guest-Inspect Application List and click on the pencil icon on the right-hand side to edit it. Under Select
Application, check X Font Server (or any application that you want, this is a dummy entry)

3. Scroll down the list and uncheck Webmail, but check all the other Applications under Webmail

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4. Click outside the box and choose to Save the Application List. Click on Activate, if prompted. Click on Next followed
by Configure Devices

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5. Go to Configuration => Templates and click on the three dots next to cedge_dualuplink_devtemp. Click on Edit

6. Navigate to the Additional Templates section and populate the Security Policy field with the policy we just created -
Guest-FW-IPS-DIA. Click on Update

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7. Click on Next and you can choose to view the side by side configuration. Click on Configure Devices. If you do
choose to view the configuration, notice the UTD related commands being pushed by vManage - they are for the IPS
module

8. The status of this change will show up as Done - Scheduled. This is expected since the IPS engine has to be
installed on the cEdge

9. Navigate to Configuration => Devices and locate the cEdge40 Device. You will notice that the Device Status is
Service Install Pending (might have to scroll to the right or remove columns to see this)

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Since it takes approximately 5 minutes for the install process to go through, this will be a perfect time to grab a cup of
tea/coffee! We will validate the installation in the next section.

Task List

Overview
Initial Configuration
Upload Image to vManage
Add the Security Policy
Firewall Policy Update
Add the IPS Policy and Finalize the Security Policy
Updating the Application List and Device Template
Verifying installation and performing signature updates
Activity Verification

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Verifying installation and performing signature updates
1. After you’re done with the cup of tea/coffee, check the Configuration => Devices page again. cEdge40 should now
be In Sync

2. Log in to CLI of cEdge40 via Console and enter the show utd engine standard status command. The Overall
system status should be Green and the Engine should be Running. If the Signature is version 29.0.c, proceed to the
next step else skip to Activity Verification

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3. You should see file utd signature update file “UTD-STD-SIGNATURE- 29130-115-S.pkg” in flash of cedge40.
Run the command bootflash:UTD-STD-SIGNATURE-29130-115-S.pkg

Confirm the signature update

4. Run show utd engine standard status to check if the signature package version matches with the image below

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Task List

Overview
Initial Configuration
Upload Image to vManage
Add the Security Policy
Firewall Policy Update
Add the IPS Policy and Finalize the Security Policy
Updating the Application List and Device Template
Verifying installation and performing signature updates
Activity Verification

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Activity Verification
1. Log in to console of Site40-PC in to your Site 40 PC again, like before.
Open Terminal typeping 8.8.8.8 to verify that Internet connectivity is still there {ICMP might be blocked by dcloud FW.}

2. Still in Terminal, run sudo apt update & sudo apt upgrade. Wait for them to complete and then run sudo apt install curl.
Once installed, type ./ips.sh to trigger a few HTTP connections which will trigger the IPS.
(If ./ips.sh is not executable, then type chmod 755 ips.sh or chmod a+x ./ips.sh)

3. Back at the cEdge40 CLI, issue show utd engine standard logging events . You should see alerts triggered as
a result of running the ips.sh file (this file attempts to download some simulated malware). Thus, our IPS engine is
working as expected

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4. We can view this information on the vManage GUI as well. Go to Dashboard => Security and you should see some
Signature hits. The dashboard does take some time to get populated (it’s never too soon for another cup of
tea/coffee!)

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This completes the verification activity.

Task List

Overview
Initial Configuration
Upload Image to vManage
Add the Security Policy
Firewall Policy Update
Add the IPS Policy and Finalize the Security Policy
Updating the Application List and Device Template
Verifying installation and performing signature updates
Activity Verification

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Configuring URL Filtering
Summary: Configuring URL Filtering for DIA Guest Users

Table of Contents
Updating the Security Policy

Verification

Task List

Updating the Security Policy

Verification

Updating the Security Policy

URL Filtering allows networks to block traffic to certain sites by utilizing URL-based policies. It is implemented using the
Snort Engine.

1. On the vManage GUI, navigate to Configuration => Security. Locate the Guest-FW-IPS-DIA policy and click on the
three dots next to it. Choose to Edit the policy. We will add URL Filtering capabilities to the same policy which we
used for IPS deployment

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2. Click on the URL Filtering tab and then click on Add URL Filtering Policy. Choose Create New

3. Click on Target VPNs and enter a Target VPN of 30. Click on Save Changes

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4. Enter URLF-NoShopping for the Policy Name. Set the Web Categories to Block and add auctions and shopping to
the categories. Set the Web Reputation to High Risk

5. Specify This is not allowed! in the Content Body and make sure all the Alerts are selected. Click on Save URL
Filtering Policy

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6. Make sure the URLF-NoShopping URL Filtering policy shows up and click on Save Policy Changes

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7. Click on Next and choose to Configure Devices. You can check the side by side configuration if needed, making
note of the web-filter and block page-profile configuration being pushed by vManage. This is our URL-F
configuration

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 Task List

Updating the Security Policy

Verification

Verification
Wait for a few minutes before going through the verification steps enumerated below.

1. Log in to the Site40-PC, by Right Clicking on the Site40-PC and click on Console. Username and Password will be
viptela/viptela. Open an Incognito window in Chrome or a Private Browsing tab in Mozilla Firefox. Try to access
http://www.ebay.com. The page should get blocked, giving the message we had customized. If amazon.com is
accessed, we will get an SSL warning, however the CLI "show utd engine standard logging events" will show
amazon.com being blocked with a category tag of shopping:

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2. Log in to the CLI for cEdge40 via console and issue show utd engine standard logging events . This will
show us amazon.com being blocked with a category of shopping attached to it

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URL Filtering is working as expected in our lab environment.

Task List

Updating the Security Policy

Verification

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Configuring AMP and TLS/SSL Proxy
Overview
Starting with IOS-XE 17.2.1r, the cEdges can function as transparent TLS/SSL Proxy devices. Encrypted traffic can be decrypted by the cEdge which is then analyzed by the
Unified Threat Defense (UTD) engine to identify risks hidden in encrypted traffic. Some of the benefits of a TLS Proxy are

• Transparent inspection of encrypted traffic for threats

• Threat and Malware protection for TLS traffic
• Security Policy enforcement on decrypted traffic
TLS proxy devices act as a man-in-the-middle (MitM) to decrypt encrypted TLS traffic traveling across the WAN, and send it to UTD for inspection. TLS Proxy thus allows
devices to identify risks that are hidden by end-to-end encryption over TLS channels. The data is re-encrypted post inspection before being sent to its final destination.

Pre-Work and Testing

We will first perform some initial testing without AMP and TLS/SSL Proxy functionality enabled.
1. Console in to the Site40-pcwin at Site 40 and click on Start. Search for Windows Security and click on the Windows Security icon

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3. Select Tools > Options .

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5. Open Google Chrome and navigate to eicar.org/?page_id=3950. Scroll down and click on the eicar_com.zip HTTPS download link. This will initiate a
download of a sample malware file

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6. The download will go through and we should see the eicar_com.zip sample malware file in the Downloads folder. Delete the file (press Shift + Delete
after clicking on the file to permanently delete it) since we will be performing this test multiple times

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We thus saw that a known malware file was downloaded via HTTPS since:
• There is no malware protection mechanism in place
• The traffic is encrypted

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 Initial Configuration

SSL/TLS Proxy configuration requires a few pre-requisites to be in place. These are:

• TLS Proxy devices and the clients should have their times in sync
• A device will need to be set up as a CA. There are a few options: Enterprise CA, Enterprise CA with SCEP enabled, vManage as CA and vManage
as an Intermediate CA
• Traffic flows must be symmetric and pinned to a particular link, if there are multiple links
We will be setting up the vManage as the CA, along with configuring NTP and DNS for our network.

Configuring NTP and DNS

1. Log in to the vManage GUI. Navigate to Configuration => Templates and head over to the Feature tab. Click on Add Template

2. Search for csr and select the CSR1000v device. Click on Cisco NTP to create an NTP Feature Template for the cEdges

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3. Populate the name and description per the table given below and click on New Server. Enter the details as per the table, screenshot given for reference.
Click on Add once all the server details have been populated and then click on Save to save the template

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5. At the Feature Templates tab, locate the cEdge_VPN0_dual_uplink template and click on the three dots next to it. Choose to Edit the template

6. Populate the Primary DNS Address and Secondary DNS Address as 8.8.8.8 and 4.2.2.2 respectively. Click on Update

7. Click on Next and Configure Devices. You can choose to view the side by side configuration if needed

8. Go to Configuration => Templates and locate the cedge_dualuplink_devtemp Device Template. Click on the three dots next to it and choose
to Edit the template

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9. Click on Cisco NTP to add an NTP Feature Template and populate the cedge40-ntp template we created. Click
on Update

10. Click on Next and Configure Devices

11. Once the configuration is pushed successfully, log in via Console to cEdge40 and issue a show ntp assoc to
verify DNS resolution of the NTP server and a state of sys.peer

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12. Log in to the CLI of vManage via the console using the username and password given below. Enter the
commands enumerated here to update the DNS and NTP servers.

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13. Run show ntp assoc after a few seconds to verify that the vManage is now sync’d .

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Setting up vManage as the CA
We will now set up vManage as the CA and install the certificate on our client PC at Site 40.

1. Log in to the Windows PC at Site40pcwin and open Google Chrome. Navigate to https://100.100.100.2:8444 and log in to vManage, after accepting any
certificate errors

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2. Go to Configuration => TLS/SSL Proxy

3. Select vManage as CA and enter the details as per the following table. Click on Save Certificate Authority
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 Field Value

Common Name tlsproxy

Organization swat-sdwanlab

Organizational Unit Cisco

Locality SJ

State/Province CA

Country Code US

Email abc@cisco.com

Validity Period 10 years

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6. Click File > Add/Remove Snap-in

7. Click on Certificates > Add > Click Ok

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10. Click OK

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11. Click Trusted Root Certification Authority > Certificates > All Tasks > Import

12. Click Next

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13. Click on Browse and set the File Type to All Files. Select Downloads and click on
the tlsproxy_vmanage.pem file we downloaded and click on Open

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14. Click on Next and ensure that the certificate store is set to Trusted Root Certification
Authorities. Click on Next

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 Enabling AMP and Testing

Advanced Malware Protection will be enabled in this section and we will try to download a sample malware file via HTTPS. Since the TLS/SSL Proxy
isn’t configured yet, we expect the file to be downloaded despite AMP being enabled. This is due to the fact that traffic is encrypted and AMP cannot
analyze encrypted communication.
1. Navigate to Configuration => Security on the vManage GUI and locate the Guest-FW-IPS-DIA policy. Click on the three dots next to it and
choose to Edit

2. Click on the Advanced Malware Protection tab and then on Add Advanced Malware Protection Policy.
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Choose Create New

3. Enter the details enumerated in the table below and click on Save Advanced Malware Protection Policy. When
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the Custom VPN Configuration radio button is selected, you will get a help walkthrough which will instruct you how
to specify custom VPNs. Click on Got It and then click on Target VPNs. Enter 30 as the Target VPN

Field Value

Policy Name amp-policy

VPN Custom VPN Configuration

Target VPN 30

AMP Cloud Region NAM

Alerts Log Level Info

File Analysis Disabled

4. Click on Next and then Configure Devices. You can choose to view the side by side configuration, if required
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5. Go back to the Site40PCwin via the console. Open Google Chrome and use the Malware Test bookmark or
navigate to eicar.org/?page_id=3950. Download the eicar_com.zip sample malware file and you will notice that the
file gets downloaded successfully

We have enabled AMP in our SD-WAN environment and tested that HTTPS communication isn’t analyzed / blocked
by AMP due to its encrypted nature, despite downloading a known malware file.

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Configuring the Decryption Policy

We will now configure cEdge40 as the TLS/SSL Proxy device.

1. Navigate to Configuration => Security and locate the Guest-FW-IPS-DIA policy. Click on the three dots next to it and choose to Edit the policy.
Click on the TLS/SSL Decryption tab and click on Add TLS/SSL Decryption Policy

2. Make sure that the vManage shows up as the CA and click on Enable SSL Decryption

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3. Give the policy a name of vpn30-tls-decrypt and create a Network Rule by clicking on Add Rule

4. Set the name of the rule to decrypt-all-vpn30 and choose Decrypt for the Action. Click on Source VPN and set the
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Source VPN to 30. Click on Save and then Save again in order to save this rule

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5. Make sure that the policy has a Decrypt rule added and click on Save TLS/SSL Decryption Policy

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6. At the main policy page, click on Save Policy Changes and then choose Next and Configure Devices. You can
view the side by side configuration if needed

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 Activity Verification

1. Once the changes have been pushed successfully, log in to the CLI of cEdge40 via Console. Issue clear utd engine standard logging events and
then show sslproxy status. The SSL and TCP Proxy Operational State should be RUNNING and Clear Mode should be set to False

Username Password

admin admin

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2. There should be some traffic being generated from Site40. Issue show sslproxy statistics and make note of
some connections being proxied. Run show utd engine standard logging events - there might be some events
logged, depending on what’s open on the Site 40 clients

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3. Run clear utd engine standard logging events and then show utd engine standard logging events. We shouldn’t
see too much activity here, but some events will be logged automatically over time (like the dns.google events seen
before)

4. Open Google Chrome on the Site40PCWin VM (or navigate to eicar.com in a browser)

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5. Wait for a few seconds (might need to refresh for the site to load) and issue show utd engine standard logging
events in the cEdge40 CLI. You should see some traffic now being analysed by AMP, being flagged with Unknown
Disposition. This traffic will be allowed

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6. On Chrome at the Site40PCWin, click on the Malware Test bookmark or navigate to eicar.org/?page_id=3950 and
click on the eicar_com.zip hyperlink to download the file

7. You will notice that the file download is now blocked

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8. From the CLI of cEdge40, issue show utd engine standard logging events and we will see the file download being
blocked

We have thus configured cEdge40 as a TLS/SSL Proxy device that is decrypting encrypted traffic, acting as a man-
in-the-middle.

Note: If you have done all steps correctly and still able to download the ecar_com.zip file, that means TLS proxy is not working due time synchronization
issue between vManage and site40pcwin. Time on vManage and site40pcwin should be same in order for TLS to work properly.
From the pod, right click on vManage and log into it’s console. Type show clock to see the time on vManage. Then compare it with time on site40pcwin.
If there is a time difference, change the time on site40pcwin to same as you see on vManage.
Once time on site40pcwin is set to same, then try to download the file. TLS proxy will work and you would not be able to download the file.

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Integrating Cisco SD-WAN and Umbrella
Table of Contents

Overview

Pre-Work for Site 40

Enabling DIA for Site 40 VPN 30

Life without Cisco Umbrella

Basic Configuration for Umbrella

Making Umbrella Ours

API Keys and AD Configuration

Building a DNS Policy

Pre-Work for Site 30

Enabling DIA for Site 30

Setting up IPSEC Tunnels

Configuring a Firewall Policy

Summary: Cisco SD-WAN Security with Umbrella integration.

Overview

Cisco Umbrella offers flexible, cloud-delivered security when and how you need it. It combines multiple security functions into one solution, so you
can extend protection to devices, remote users, and distributed locations anywhere. Umbrella is the easiest way to effectively protect your users
everywhere in minutes.

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In this section, we will deploy DNS Layer Security as an Umbrella feature on cEdge40. Then we will deploy IPSEC tunnels to Umbrella on vEdge30
and check Firewall and Web functionalities.

• DNS Layer Security (cEdge40)

• Cloud-delivered Firewall (IPSEC Tunnel) (vEdge30)
• Secure Web Gateway (IPSEC Tunnel) (vEdge30)

Task List

Overview
Pre-Work for Site 40
Enabling DIA for Site 40 VPN 30
Life without Cisco Umbrella
Basic Configuration for Umbrella
Making Umbrella Ours
API Keys and AD Configuration
Building a DNS Policy
Pre-Work for Site 30
Enabling DIA for Site 30
Setting up IPSEC Tunnels
Configuring a Firewall Policy
Configuring a Web Policy

Pre-Work for Site 40

We will need to deactivate the Centralized DIA policy for cEdge40 and update few settings with respect to DNS servers to ensure that Umbrella infrastructure is utilized by
the SD-WAN solution.

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1. On the vManage GUI, go to Configurations => Policies. Search for Site40-Guest-DIA and deactivate the policy.

2. On the vManage GUI, go to Configuration => Templates => Feature. Search for cEdge_VPN0_dual_uplink template. Click on three dots and choose Edit.

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3. In the DNS section, add the primary and secondary DNS values as 8.8.8.8 and 4.2.2.2 respectively as shown below. Click on Update.

4. Click Next => Configured Devices to save the configs on cEdge40.

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Enabling DIA For Site 40 VPN 30
To facilitate communication to the Internet from Site 40, we will be enabling DIA at Site 40 for VPN 30.

1. On the vManage GUI, goto Configuration > Templates > Feature and search for cedge40-vpn30 template, click on three dots and click view.

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a. Primary and Secondary DNS Global values as 8.8.8.8 and 4.2.2.2

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Next, we will attach this feature template to device template associated with cedge40.

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3. Now we need to attach this new cedge40-vpn30 feature template to cEdge40 device template. Go to Configurations => Template => Device. Search for
cedge_dualuplink_devtemp and click on Edit

4. Go to Service VPN section. Check the button next to cedge-vpn30 and then click on Remove VPN. Click on Remove to confirm the process

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As of now, Site 40 Windows PC has connectivity to the internet and is pointing to DNS servers 8.8.8.8 and 4.2.2.2. We will run a quick check from site40pcwin to
verify that we are not connected to Cisco Umbrella.

1. Access site40pc from the pod. Right click on site40pcwin and click on Console

2. Open Google Chrome and go to welcome.umbrella.com. The Umbrella page should display the image shown below. This is an indication that our
network isn’t protected by Umbrella (yet).

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control/filtering enabled as of now

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network followed by a more elaborated DNS Policy.

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Configuring WAN Edge Umbrella Redirection

In this section we will ensure that cEdge40 intercepts DNS queries and send them to Umbrella.

1. Access wkst1 from the dCloud screen and by clicking View on the right side. Log in to the Umbrella portal from your wkst1 by clicking on the Umbrella login shortcut on
the desktop and you should be logged in automatically.

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Devices doesn’t exist, click on Generate.

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7. Copy-paste the Organization ID, Umbrella Network Devices Key, Umbrella Network Devices Secret and Legacy Network Devices Token in the corresponding
fields. Click on Save Changes

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8. Go to Configuration => Security and choose to Add Security Policy. Click on Custom and choose Proceed

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Click on Save Changes.

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11. Make sure the DNS Policy has the Umbrella Registration Status as Configured and click on Save DNS Security Policy. Also ensure that VPN 30 is listed in the
configuration

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12. Back at the main Security Policy, click Next till you’re at the Policy Summary page and give the Policy a name of cedge40-dns-sec with a Description of DNS Security
Policy for cEdge40. Click on Save Policy Changes.

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Click on the three dots next to it and choose to Edit the Template

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14. Scroll down to the Additional Templates section, remove the Security Policy Site40-Guest-DIA which was used in ZBF task and add cEdge40-dns-sec as shown
below. Click on Update

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15. Click on Next and then Configure Devices. You can view the side by side configuration if needed.
16. At this point, cEdge40 will register to the Umbrella portal as a Network Device. Log in to the Umbrella portal from wkst1 and go to Deployments => Network Devices.
You should see a device showing up over there, with the Device Name cEdge40 vpn30. The Status should be Active

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17. Log in to CLI of cEdge40 via console. Run the command show umbrella device-registration. If you see a status as created and a valid device ID, that means device is
successfully registered with Umbrella, receiving a response code 201.

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18. Access the site40pcwin from console. Open the command prompt. Run the command ipconfig /flushdns. Open Chrome and access internetbadguys.com. The site
should not load.

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20. Mouse over the latest spike and you should see the timestamp of it. Click on the spike to see details of it. Click on the three dots next to any of the blocks and choose
View Full Details

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potentially enforcing any Umbrella DNS Policies for that Organization.

Making Umbrella Ours

To apply custom DNS policies, we will need to ensure that our setup can be uniquely identified by Umbrella, post which DNS Policies can be set up for the organization.
Umbrella can be used to identify traffic coming from a public IP/IP Range. This helps with creating custom policies for a particular organization. In our lab, multiple
devices will be talking to the outside world via the same Public IP, hence this approach will not work for us.
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individual workstations by leveraging Cisco AnyConnect, thereby encompassing Roaming Computers in our DNS policies.

API Keys and AD Configuration

Three pieces of the puzzle that uniquely identify our Enterprise Network on Umbrella are given below:

Organization (this is a numeric string, allocated by Umbrella. Not to be confused with the SD-WAN organization name)

API Key

Secret

1. From your wkst1, click on the Umbrella shortcut and you will be logged in automatically.

Username Password

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3. API Keys and the Secret needs to be generated on Umbrella. Navigate to Admin => API Keys. If the sidebar isn’t visible, click on the menu icon (three horizontal
lines) next to the Cisco Logo

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to notepad.

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 Task List

Overview
Pre-Work For Site 40
Enabling DIA for Site 40 VPN 30
Life without Cisco Umbrella
Basic Configuration for Umbrella
Making Umbrella Ours
API Keys and AD Configuration
Building a DNS Policy
Pre-Work for Site 30
Enabling DIA for Site 30
Setting up IPSEC Tunnels
Configuring a Firewall Policy
Configuring a Web Policy

Building a DNS Policy

1. From wkst1, navigate to Policies => Policy Components => Destination Lists on the Umbrella portal. You will notice a few default Lists already created

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3. Scroll down to the Destinations in this list should be field and make sure it is set to Blocked. Type amazon.com in the Enter a domain or URL box and hit Enter (or
click on Add). This should place amazon.com in the list (blocked). Click on Save

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4. Navigate to Policies => Management => DNS Policies and click on Add to add a new DNS Policy

12. Scroll down on the How would you like to be protected? page and click on Next without making any changes

13. On the What would you like to protect? page, click on Network Devices. Don’t click on the checkbox next to it, but on the actual phrase itself

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5. Put a check mark next to cedge40 and it should show up in the right-hand window. Click on Next

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8. Search for ebay in the Search Box on the Control Applications page under Applications to Control and put a check mark next to eBay. Make sure it is set to Block
and click on Next. Click on Proceed on the Application Control page

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see BlockAmazon on the right hand-side under 2 Block Lists. Applied. Click on Next

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12. Our DNS Policy is now created. It might take 5 minutes for the policy to be applied. Click on the DNSPolicy1 policy and enable SSL Decryption. Scroll down and click on
Save

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13. We are now going to test our DNS Policy, but before doing so, the Cisco Umbrella root certificate will need to be downloaded and installed on the site40pcwin. Double
click the Flush DNS icon on the Desktop or run ipconfig /flushdns from command prompt to clear the DNS cache

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14. Log in to the Umbrella portal from your site40pcwin by navigating to login.umbrella.com in a browser. Enter credentials of umbrellademo9@gmail.com/C1sco@12345
and click on Log In. Navigate to Deployment => Root Certificate and download the Root Certificate on the Site 40 PC.

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15. Expand Cisco Root Certificate Authority and download the root CA certificate

16. Click on Keep, if prompted and open the downloaded file. Choose Open in the Security Warning

17. Click on Install Certificate

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21. On the browser, go to yahoo.com. The page should open since we haven’t applied any policy for it.

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21. Now try going to amazon.com. We will find that it is blocked with the text The site is blocked indicating this has been done by the administrator via a Block List. Amazon
was opening before, but our company policy doesn’t allow it and we have thus leveraged Cisco Umbrella’s DNS Policy functionality to block specific destinations

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22. Try to browse to ebay.com. This will also be blocked but the text will read This site is blocked due to content filtering. This is because we blocked eBay in the Control
Applications section of our policy

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play. Note the subtext mentioning This site was blocked due to the following categories: Gambling

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Overview
Pre-Work for Site 40
Enabling DIA for Site 40 VPN 30
Life without Cisco Umbrella
Basic Configuration for Umbrella
Making Umbrella Ours
API Keys and AD Configuration
Building a DNS Policy
Pre-Work for Site 30
Enabling DIA for Site 30
Setting up IPSEC Tunnels
Configuring a Firewall Policy
Configuring a Web Policy

Pre-Work for Site 30

So far, we have run through DNS policy which is the first layer of security in the network. For deeper packet inspection, we
can utilize Umbrella and SD-WAN’s SIG functionality which will create IPSEC tunnels between our vEdges/cEdges and
Cisco Umbrella. For this, we will use site 30. Traffic will be sent to Umbrella over the IPSEC tunnels and will be subject to
Firewall and Web policies. For that, first we need to enable DIA for site 30

1. Connect to the Site30PC and console to the PC and assign the following IP configuration on the active Network
Adapter 10.30.10.21, SM: 255.255.255.0, DG: 10.30.10.2, DNS: 8.8.8.8, 4.2.2.2

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8.8.8.8 , the pings should fail indicating that there is no Internet connectivity.( Please Enter the Address to Machine Manually , if not present)

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to Edit

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(IPv4) to 4.2.2.2

7. Locate the IPv4 Route section and click on the pencil icon to edit the 0.0.0.0/0 route

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9. Click on Save Changes

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11. Click on New IPv4 Route and enter a Prefix of 192.0.2.0/24. Click on Add Next Hop

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13. Enter a Global value of 192.0.2.13 in the Address field and click on Add

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15. We will be adding 2 more routes. Repeat steps 12 to 15 for the routes enumerated below, using the images as
reference. These routes and the ones in the previous steps are being added to maintain BFD sessions on the MPLS
link in our SD-WAN network and to ensure that the TLOC extension configured before works as expected (hence the
192.168.26.0/24 route shown below). The 192.0.2.0/24 and 192.1.2.0/24 routes being added correspond to our MPLS
subnets across the SD-WAN Network

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Field Global or Device Specific (Drop Down) Value

Prefix Global 192.1.2.0/24

Add Next Hop - Address Global 192.0.2.13

Field Global or Device Specific (Drop Down) Value

Prefix Global 192.168.26.0/24

Add Next Hop - Address Global 192.0.2.13

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17. Click on Next and then Configure Devices. You can view the side by side configuration difference, if required. Notice
that the default route pointing to the MPLS next hop is being removed and 3 routes are being added in place of it

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18. Navigate to the Configuration => Templates => Feature tab and click on the three dots next to vedge30_MPLS.
Click on Edit

19. Under Tunnel, set the Control Connection to Off and click on Update. Click on Next and then Configure Devices

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20. Back at the Configuration => Templates => Feature tab, locate the vEdge30_INET Feature Template. Click on the
three dots next to it and choose to Edit. Set NAT to a Global value of On and click on Update. Click Next and
Configure Devices on the corresponding screens, viewing the side-by-side configuration difference if required

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21. We will now add a VPN 10 Template for vEdge30 since there will be settings applicable just to this Site for Umbrella
connectivity. On Configuration => Templates => Feature tab locate the vedge-vpn10 Template. Click on the three
dots next to it and choose Copy

22. Rename the Template to vedge30-vpn10 and update the description accordingly. Click on Copy

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23. Click on the three dots next to the newly copied template and choose to Edit

24. Update the DNS entries to 8.8.8.8 for the Primary DNS Address (IPv4) and 4.2.2.2 for the Secondary DNS
Address (IPv4). Click on Update.

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Template. Click on the three dots next to it and choose to Edit the template

26. In the Service VPN section, select the vedge-vpn10 Template Name entry and click on Remove VPN. Confirm the
removal

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28. Under Additional VPN Templates click on VPN Interface and select vedge-vpn10-int in the VPN Interface drop-
down. Click on Add

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This completes the pre-work that we needed to do at Site 30.

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To facilitate communication to the Internet from Site 30, we will be enabling DIA at Site 30 for VPN 10.

1. On the vManage GUI, edit the vedge30-vpn10 template with a VPN route to 0.0.0.0/0 VPN 0 and ensure the vEdge30-INET template for vEdge30 is enabled for NAT.

2. Go to IPv4 Route section and add route 0.0.0.0/0, choose gateway as VPN, enable VPN as Global value of On. Click on Add, Save Changes, Update and
Configured Devices to save the changes.

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3. Go to the Site 30 PC open Command Prompt (Start => type Command Prompt). Type ping 8.8.8.8 and hit Enter. Pings should work. To
verify DNS resolution, type ping www.cisco.com and hit Enter

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Setting up IPSEC Tunnels

1. Open a browser and log in to Cisco Umbrella from your host. The main overview page will show that we no Active Network
Tunnels

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=> Feature Tab and click Add Template. Search for vedge and select the vEdge Cloud device. Click on SIG
Credentials under Other Templates

Username Password

admin admin

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Key (i.e., API Key) and Secret copied and saved to notepad before. Click on Save

4. Back at the Templates page, make sure you’re still on the Feature Tab and click on Add Template. Search for vedge
and select vEdge Cloud. Click on Secure Internet Gateway (SIG) under VPN

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Parameter Global or Device Specific (Drop Down) Value

Interface Name (1 - 255) Global ipsec1

Source Interface Global ge0/0

Data-Center NA Primary

7. Click on Add Tunnel again to add a second IPSEC Tunnel. Enter the details given below and click on Add

Parameter Global or Device Specific (Drop Down) Value

Interface Name (1 - 255) Global ipsec2

Source Interface Global ge0/0

Data-Center NA Secondary

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9. Log in to vEdge30 via the console. Enter ping global-a.vpn.sig.umbrella.com. Pings should be successful.
Press Ctrl + c to stop the pings

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admin admin

10. Back on the vManage GUI, navigate to Configuration => Templates. Under the Device tab, locate the
vedge30_dev_temp template and click on the three dots next to it. Choose to Edit the template

11. Go to the Transport & Management VPN section click on Secure Internet Gateway under Additional VPN 0
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12. Scroll down to the Additional Templates section and populate SIG-Creds for the SIG Credentials. Click on Update

13. Click on Next. You can view the side by side configuration if required. Make note of the secure-internet-gateway and

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14. If you scroll down, interface ipsec1 and interface ipsec2 configuration can be viewed. Click on Configure Devices

show ipsec ike

15. Wait for a couple of minutes and log in to the Console session for vedge30. Issue the command
sessions . You will see 2 sessions which should be in a state of IKE_UP_IPSEC_UP. If the sessions are in any other
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16. Log in to the Umbrella GUI from wkst1. On the main overview page, you should see Active Network Tunnels 2/2 Active

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17. Head over to Site 30 PC and open a web browser. Go to http://portquiz.net:444. The page should load correctly

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vpn10 template and click on the three dots next to it. Choose to Edit the template

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click on Add. Click on Update followed by Next and Configure Devices

This will ensure that all the traffic hitting VPN 10 on vEdge30 is punted over the newly established IPSEC Tunnels to
Umbrella.

20. From wkst1, access the Umbrella GUI, click on Active Network Tunnels and you will see the naming convention
automatically populated for our 2 Tunnels. Both tunnels should be in an Active state (if the status is unknown, wait
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then the System IP of the device in question with the dots replaced by x. The last few characters reference the
Interface (IF) followed by the Interface Name (ipsec1 and ipsec2 in our case).

We have completed IPSEC Tunnel configuration for our vEdge30 device. Through the Service Route, we have ensured that
all traffic is punted over the Tunnels to Umbrella (this is not in effect yet, more changes will be made to force traffic over the
Tunnels).

Task List

Overview
Pre-Work For Site 40
Enabling DIA for Site 40 VPN 30
Life without Cisco Umbrella
Basic Configuration for Umbrella
Making Umbrella Ours
API Keys and AD Configuration

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Pre-Work for Site 30
Enabling DIA for Site 30
Setting up IPSEC Tunnels
Configuring a Firewall Policy
Configuring a Web Policy

Configuring a Firewall Policy

1. Log into Cisco Umbrella from wkst1 and click on the Umbrella shortcut which will log you in automatically.
Navigate to Policies => Management => Firewall Policy and click on Add in the top right-hand corner

2. Enter the rule name as block444. We will be blocking TCP traffic to port 444 via this Firewall Policy

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5. Under Rule Schedule set the Start Date to the earliest available and make sure Does Not Expire is checked. Click
on Save

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7. Go to http://portquiz.net:444. The site will not load

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being blocked (in line with our Firewall Policy)

9. Other than using the Cloud Delivered Firewall to block specific ports, we can also block ICMP packets. Open a
command prompt on the Site 30 PC and type ping cisco.com . Hit Enter. The pings should be successful

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policy and name it blockicmp

11. Set the Protocol as ICMP

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Click on Save to save the firewall policy

13. Wait for approximately 5 minutes and try to ping cisco.com from the Site 30 PC again. Pings should now be blocked

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completes our configuration of a Cloud Delivered Firewall.

Task List

Overview
Pre-Work For Site 40
Enabling DIA for Site 40 VPN 30
Life without Cisco Umbrella
Basic Configuration for Umbrella
Making Umbrella Ours
API Keys and AD Configuration
Building a DNS Policy
Pre-Work for Site 30
Enabling DIA for Site 30
Setting up IPSEC Tunnels
Configuring a Firewall Policy
Configuring a Web Policy

Configuring a Web Policy

We will now apply a Web Policy to all traffic traversing the IPSEC Tunnels.

1. From wkst1, click on the Umbrella shortcut which should log you in automatically. Navigate to Policies => Policy
Components => Destination Lists and click on Add. Name the list blockyahoo and make sure that the Blocked radio
button is selected. The This Destination List is applied to field should be Web Policies. Enter yahoo.com in the
Enter a domain, URL, IPv4 or CIDR box and click on Add. Once yahoo.com shows up in the lower half of the screen,
click on Save

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identity (note that we can also inherit the Ruleset identities) and click on Apply

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Apply. Click on Save to save this rule Next

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browser window. Try to access yahoo.com. Traffic to Yahoo, which was working before, should now be blocked. Make
note of the subtext This site was blocked by the Cisco Umbrella proxy

We have completed integration and configuration of Umbrella with our SD-WAN environment.

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Summary: Configuring Dynamic On-Demand Tunnels between Site 30 and Site 40 with DC as the backup route

Table of Contents
Overview

Exploring the current setup

Configuring a Control Policy for Dynamic

Tunnels

Configuring OMP Templates

Enabling Dynamic Tunnels

Activity Verification

Task List

Overview
Exploring the current setup
Configuring a Control Policy for Dynamic Tunnels
Configuring OMP Templates
Enabling Dynamic Tunnels
Activity Verification

Overview
IPSEC tunnels are established between TLOCs in a full mesh fashion between devices in the SD-WAN overlay. This leads to multiple, potentially idle tunnels remaining up
between sites and an overhead of traffic traversing the WAN links (due to BFD).
With version 20.3 of vManage, Cisco SD-WAN allows the creation of on-demand tunnels between sites - i.e. tunnels will only be set up when there is traffic traversing the

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The following configuration components come into play when setting up Dynamic On-Demand Tunnels:

Control Policies

OMP Templates (max path and ECMP limits) System

Templates (for configuring Dynamic Tunnels)

We will set up Dynamic On-Demand Tunnels between vEdge30 and cEdge40 with the DC-vEdges functioning as backup forwarding nodes.

Task List

Overview
Exploring the current setup
Configuring a Control Policy for Dynamic Tunnels
Configuring OMP Templates
Enabling Dynamic Tunnels
Activity Verification

Exploring the current setup

0. Open a CLI session to vEdge30 using the Console . Log in via the credentials mentioned below and enter the command show
omp tlocs | tab . Notice that TLOC routes learnt from cEdge40 are Chosen, Installed and Resolved (C,I,R) or Chosen, Resolved (C,R)

Username Password

admin admin

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for 10.255.255.31 (vEdge30) and these are also Chosen, Installed and Resolved (C,I,R) or Chosen, Resolved (C,R)

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3. Back at vEdge30, check the OMP routes for VPN 10 and VPN 20 subnets behind cEdge40. Run the commands show omp routes 10.40.10.0/24 and show
omp routes 10.40.20.0/24 . vEdge30 routes traffic for the subnets directly to cEdge40 (normal full mesh operation of SD-WAN)

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4. Similarly, cEdge40 routes traffic for the vEdge30 VPN 10 and VPN 20 subnets directly to vEdge30. Run the commands show sdwan omp routes 10.30.10.0/24
and show sdwan omp routes 10.30.20.0/24 on cEdge40.

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Configuring a Control Policy for Dynamic Tunnels
1. On the vManage GUI, navigate to Configuration => Policies

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3. Click on Site and then on New Site List to create a New Site List

4. Name the Site List Site30_40 and enter 30,40 in the Add Site field. Click on Add

5. Make sure the Site List looks like the image below and click on Next

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6. Click on Add Topology and then on Custom Control (Route & TLOC) to create a new control policy

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7. Give the control policy a Name of site30-40-dynamic-tunnels and a Description of Dynamic Tunnels between Site 30 and 40 with DC as a backup.
Click on Sequence Type and choose Route

8. Click on Sequence Rule and select Site. Populate the Site List Site30_40 and click on Actions

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9. Set the Action to Accept and click on TLOC Action and TLOC. Populate TLOC Action as Backup and the TLOC List as DC-TLOCs. Click on Save Match and
Actions

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10. Click on Default Action and then the pencil icon to change the default of Reject Enabled to Accept Enabled. Click on Accept and choose to Save. Make sure the
Default Action is set to Accept Enabled and click on Save Control Policy

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11. Click Next till you’re at the Apply Policies to Sites and VPNs tab and give the policy a Name of Dynamic-Tunnels-Site30_40 with a Description of Dynamic Tunnels
between Site 30 and Site 40. Under Topology, click on New Site List for the site30-40-dynamic-tunnels policy and choose the Site30_40 Site List under Outbound
Site List. Click on Add and then click on Preview to view the CLI output of the policy

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 12. We will notice that the control policy is setting the TLOC of Site 30 and Site 40 OMP Routes to the DC-TLOCs TLOC list. It is also setting a tloc-action backup to
populate the ultimate tloc value in the OMP route, pointing to the other site TLOC (rather than punting traffic out the DC-TLOCs). Click on Save Policy

This completes the Control Policy required for Dynamic On-Demand Tunnels.

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 Task List

Overview
Exploring the current setup
Configuring a Control Policy for Dynamic Tunnels
Configuring OMP Templates
Enabling Dynamic Tunnels
Activity Verification

Configuring OMP Templates

We will be applying OMP Templates to the vSmarts and the WAN Edges at Site 30 and Site 40.

1. On the vManage GUI, go to Configuration => Templates

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2. Click on the Feature tab and then click on Add Template

3. Search for vSmart in the Select Devices section and select the vSmart Device. Click on OMP under Basic Configuration to start configuring an OMP Template for the
vSmarts

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4. Give the template a name of vsmart-omp-dt with a Description of OMP modification for Dynamic Tunnels - vSmart. Set the Number of Paths Advertised per Prefix
to a Global value of 16 and click on Save

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5. We will now apply this Feature Template to the vSmart Device Template. Go to the Device tab in Templates and locate the vSmart-dev-temp Device Template. Click
on the three dots next to it and choose to Edit the template

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6. Under OMP, set the template to vsmart-omp-dt. Click on Update. Click on Next and Configure Devices

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7. Confirm the configuration change and click on OK

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8. Navigate to Configuration => Templates => Feature Tab and click on Add Template

9. Search for vedge and select vEdge Cloud. Click on OMP

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10. Give the template a name of vedge-omp-dt with a Description of OMP modification for Dynamic Tunnels - vEdge. Set the ECMP Limit to a Global value of 16 and
click on Save

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11. Navigate to Configuration => Templates => Feature Tab and click on Add Template. Search for csr and select CSR1000v. Click on Cisco OMP

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12. Give the template a name of cedge-omp-dt with a Description of OMP modification for Dynamic Tunnels - cEdge. Set the ECMP Limit to a Global value of 16 and
click on Save

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13. We will now attach the OMP templates just created to vEdge30 and cEdge40. Navigate to Configuration => Templates. While on the Device Tab, locate the
vEdge30_dev_temp template and click on the three dots next to it. Choose to Edit the template

14. Update the OMP template as vedge-omp-dt and click on Update. Click Next and Configure Devices to push the changes to vEdge30

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15. Navigate to Configuration => Templates. While on the Device Tab, locate the cEdge_dualuplink_devtemp template and click on the three dots next to it. Choose to
Edit the template

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16. Update the Cisco OMP template as cedge-omp-dt and click on Update. Click Next and Configure Devices to push the changes to cEdge40

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This completes the configuration of our OMP Feature Templates for vEdge30 and cEdge40 to support Dynamic On-Demand Tunnels.

Task List

Overview
Exploring the current setup
Configuring a Control Policy for Dynamic Tunnels
Configuring OMP Templates
Enabling Dynamic Tunnels
Activity Verification

Enabling Dynamic Tunnels

We will now add some basic configuration on the DC-vEdges and enable Dynamic On-Demand Tunnels via System templates.

1. Navigate to Configuration => Templates => Feature Tab and locate the DCvEdge-vpn0 Feature Template. Click on the three dots next to it and choose to Edit the
template

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2. Scroll down to the Service section and click on New Service. Set the Service Type as TE and click on Add. Click on Update. Click on Next and Configure Devices.
Confirm the configuration change

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3. On the vManage GUI, go to Configuration => Templates. Click on the Feature tab and then click on Add Template. Search for vedge in the Select Devices section
and select the vEdge Cloud. Click on System under Basic Configuration to start configuring a System Template for vEdge30
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4. Give the template a name of vedge-system-dt with a Description of System modification for Dynamic Tunnels - vEdge. Under Advanced, set On-Demand Tunnel to a
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Global value of On and the On-Demand Tunnel Idle Timeout (min) to 5. Click on Save

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5. Go to Configuration => Templates. Click on the Feature tab and then click on Add Template. Search for csr in the Select Devices section and select the
CSR1000v. Click on Cisco System under Basic Configuration to start configuring a System Template for cEdge40

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6. Give the template a name of cedge-system-dt with a Description of System modification for Dynamic Tunnels - cEdge. Under Advanced, set On-Demand Tunnel to a
Global value of On and the On-Demand Tunnel Idle Timeout (min) to 5. Click on Save

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7. We will now attach the System templates just created to vEdge30 and cEdge40. Navigate to Configuration => Templates. While on the Device Tab, locate the
vEdge30_dev_temp template and click on the three dots next to it. Choose to Edit the template

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8. Update the System template as vedge-system-dt and click on Update. Click Next and Configure Devices to push the changes to vEdge30

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 9. Navigate to Configuration => Templates. While on the Device Tab, locate the cEdge_dualuplink_devtemp template and click on the three dots next to it. Choose to
Edit the template

10. Update the Cisco System template as cedge-system-dt and click on Update. Click Next and Configure Devices to push the changes to cEdge40

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 Task List

Overview
Exploring the current setup
Configuring a Control Policy for Dynamic Tunnels
Configuring OMP Templates
Enabling Dynamic Tunnels
Activity Verification

Activity Verification
2. Log in to the Console of DC-vEdge1 and DC-vEdge2. Use the credentials given
below. Issue clear control connections on both devices

Username Password

admin admin

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3. Log in to the Console of vEdge30. Use the same credentials as above and issue show omp tlocs | tab . Notice that the TLOC Routes for cEdge40 are learnt
by vEdge30, but they are in an inactive state

4. Run the commands show system on-demand and show system on-demand remote-system on vEdge30. You will notice that vEdge30 shows itself as On-

Demand yes and Status Active. However, the Status of cEdge40 is inactive

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5. Run the command show omp routes | tab on vEdge30. Notice that the OMP Routes for the VPN 10 subnet at cEdge40 (10.40.10.0/24) are in an Unresolved,
On-Demand Inactive state (U,IA)

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6. On the vManage GUI, navigate to Configuration => Policies and locate the Dynamic-Tunnels-Site30_40 policy. Click on the three dots next to it and choose to
Activate this policy. Click on Activate and Configure Devices if prompted

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7. Once the policy is active, go to the CLI of vEdge30 and run show omp routes | tab again. We now see that the traffic to the VPN 10 subnet at cEdge40
(10.40.10.0/24) is being routed via the DC-vEdges, with the direct routes to cEdge40 in an Installed, Unresolved and On-Demand Inactive state (I,U,IA)

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8. Log in to the CLI of vEdge30 and run a Traceroute to 10.40.10.2 via the CLI traceroute VPN 10 10.40.10.2 . We will see that the initial path will traverse an IP in
VPN 10 at the DC-vEdges (10.100.10.3 in this example) and will then start going directly to cEdge40. This is because the initial packet takes the backup DC-vEdge
route after which the Tunnel between vEdge30 and cEdge40 is established. Run show system on-demand and show system on-demand remote and we will

see that the Tunnel to cEdge40 is now active, with the Idle timeout counting down from 300 seconds (i.e. 5 minutes, as we had configured in the System Template)

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9. Subsequent traffic will go directly over the Tunnel between vEdge30 adn cEdge40, as long as the Tunnel is active. This can be verified by running traceroute vpn
10 10.40.10.2 on vEdge30

10. show omp routes 10.40.10.0/24 indicates that the Chosen, Installed, Resolved (C,I,R) route for the 10.40.10.0 subnet is the direct path to cEdge40

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11. Wait for approximately 5 minutes and we will find that the Tunnel between vEdge30 and cEdge40 transitions to an inactive state after the Idle Timeout expires,
assuming there is no traffic between the two Sites

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12. Once the tunnel is inactive, show omp routes 10.40.10.0/24 shows the traffic path traversing the DC-vEdges again, with the direct path to cEdge40 in I,U,IA

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This completes the configuration and verification of Dynamic On-Demand Tunnels.

Task List

Overview
Exploring the current setup
Configuring a Control Policy for Dynamic Tunnels
Configuring OMP Templates
Enabling Dynamic Tunnels
Activity Verification

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Inter VPN Routing and Service Chaining
Summary: Implementing Inter VPN Routing between Site 20 VPN 10 and Site 30 VPN 20, along with Service
Chaining (Firewall).

Table of Contents
Overview

Configure VPN 40 on DC-vEdges

Configuration Cleanup and Routing

Verification

Setting up VPN Lists

Inter VPN Routing Policies

Inter VPN Routing Verification

Policies for Service Chaining

Activity Verification

Task List

Overview
Configure VPN 40 on DC-vEdges
Configuration Cleanup and Routing Verification
Setting up VPN Lists
Inter VPN Routing Policies
Inter VPN Routing Verification
Policies for Service Chaining
Activity Verification

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Overview
As of now, devices in different VPNs cannot communicate with each other. VPN 10 devices can talk to other VPN 10
devices but not to VPN 20. In this section, we will be setting up Inter VPN routing.

Additionally, there might be a requirement where we need to send traffic from one VPN to another through a firewall. This
feature is known as Service Chaining (other devices like Load Balancers can also be part of the Service Chain) and is used
widely in real-world SD-WAN Deployments.

We will be focusing on ensuring devices in Site 20 VPN 10 can communicate with devices in Site 30 VPN 20. Initially, this will
be direct communication between the two VPNs. A firewall will then be inserted in the path so that all traffic between the
VPNs traverses the firewall, which will be located at Site-DC in VPN 40.

Diagrammatically, our topology will look as below:

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The Black arrow between Site 20 and Site 30 indicates the traffic flow when Inter VPN Routing
configuration is done for the first time. Traffic flows directly between the two Sites.

The Orange arrow is the traffic flow from Site 20 VPN 10 to Site 30 VPN 20 once Service Chaining is
configured.
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 Source IP: 10.20.10.2 or 10.20.10.3
Destination IP: 10.30.20.2

The Green arrow is the traffic flow from Site 30 VPN 20 to Site 20 VPN 10 once Service Chaining is
configured.

Source IP: 10.30.20.2

Destination IP: 10.20.10.2 or 10.20.10.3

Task List

Overview
Configure VPN 40 on DC-vEdges
Configuration Cleanup and Routing Verification
Setting up VPN Lists
Inter VPN Routing Policies
Inter VPN Routing Verification
Policies for Service Chaining
Activity Verification

VPN40 Template (dc-vedge-vpn40) and VPN40 interface template (dc-vedge-vpn40-int1) are preconfigured, we will simply review them and configure service insertion in dc-
vedge-vpn40 template.
1. Log in to the vManage GUI and browse to Configuration => Templates => Feature

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2. Go to the Feature tab and edit dc-vedge-vpn40 template.

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3. Review the Template, then Go to the Service section and click on New Service. Select the Service Type as netsvc1 and enter an IPv4 Address
of 10.100.40.1. Click on Add

4. Click on New Service again and select the Service Type as netsvc2. Enter an IPv4 Address of 10.100.40.5. Click on
Add then click on Save to save the VPN Template configuration

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5. Review the dc-vedge-vpn40-int1 template under Configuration => Templates => Feature Tab

6. Go to Configuration => Templates on the vManage GUI and make sure you’re on the Device tab. Locate the
DCvEdge_dev_temp template and click on the three dots next to it. Choose to Edit the template

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7. Scroll down to the Service VPN section and click on Add VPN. Move the dc-vedge-vpn40 template to the right-hand
side and click on Next

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8. Click on VPN Interface under Additional VPN Templates and select dc-vedge-vpn40-int1 under the VPN Interface
drop down. Click on Add

9. Make sure the Service VPN section shows the addition of the VPN 40 Template and click on Update

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10. Enter the IPv4 Address field for vpn40_if_ipv4_address as 10.100.40.2/30 (for DC-vEdge1) and 10.100.40.6/30 (for
DC-vEdge2). Click on Next

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11. Click on Configure Devices. You can choose to view the side-by-side configuration, if required, noting the addition of
vpn 40 with the corresponding service addresses

12. Confirm the configuration change by clicking on the check box and clicking on OK

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 13. Once the configuration update goes through, log in to the CLI of DC-vEdge1 and DC-vEdge2 via Putty and issue the
following commands. You should see successful ping responses:

On DC-vEdge1 - ping vpn 40 10.100.40.1 On DC-vEdge2 - ping vpn 40 10.100.40.5

This completes the configuration needed for adding VPN 40 to the DC-vEdges.

Task List

Overview
Configure VPN 40 on DC-vEdges
Configuration Cleanup and Routing Verification
Setting up VPN Lists
Inter VPN Routing Policies
Inter VPN Routing Verification
Policies for Service Chaining
Activity Verification

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Configuration Cleanup and Routing Verification
1. On the vManage GUI, go to Configuration => Templates => Feature Tab. Locate the vedge-vpn20-DC template and
click on the three dots next to it. Choose to Edit the template

2. Scroll down to the IPv4 Route section and delete the route populated (it should be a null route) by clicking on the
trash icon. Click on Update. Click Next and Configure Devices to push the update out

3. To check the current routing tables for VPN 10 and VPN 20, navigate to Monitor => Network

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5. Go to Real Time in the left menu and enter ip route in the Device Options field. Click on IP Routes to see the current
routes and choose Show Filters

6. Enter a VPN ID of 10 and click on Search to filter the routes for VPN 10 on vEdge20

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7. Since Inter VPN Routing hasn’t been configured yet, we will see routes that are part of VPN 10 only. Subnets from
other VPNs will not show up over here. We can thus infer that there won’t be inter VPN connectivity as of now

8. Click on Select Devices (top left-hand corner) and choose vEdge30 from the drop down. Click on Show Filters

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9. Enter 20 in the VPN ID and click on Search

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10. This shows all the routes learnt by vEdge30 in VPN 20. There aren’t any routes subnets in other VPNs, as of now

11. On the left-hand slide, click on Troubleshooting and select Traceroute (note that this is being done on vEdge30)
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12. Enter a Destination IP of 10.20.10.2 and select VPN 20 from the VPN drop down. Populate the Source/Interface as
ge0/3 and click on Start

13. As expected, the traceroute should fail

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14. Click on Select Device in the top left-hand corner and choose vEdge20. Run the traceroute again, changing the
Destination IP to 10.30.20.2, VPN to VPN 10 and the Source/Interface to ge0/2. Click on Start and this should fail
as well

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We have established that Inter VPN communication is not happening between Site 20 and Site 30 as of now.

Task List

Overview
Configure VPN 40 on DC-vEdges
Configuration Cleanup and Routing Verification
Setting up VPN Lists
Inter VPN Routing Policies
Inter VPN Routing Verification
Policies for Service Chaining
Activity Verification

Setting up VPN Lists

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In order to facilitate inter VPN connectivity, we will be setting up VPN Lists that can be used in our Policies.

1. On the vManage GUI, go to Configuration => Policies

2.

3. Click on Custom Options in the top right-hand corner and click on Lists (under Centralized Policy)

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4. Select VPN and click on New VPN List. Enter a VPN List Name of FW and put 40 for the Add VPN field. Click on
Add

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5. Click on New VPN List again and Put a VPN List Name of Corp_FW. Put 10,40 in the Add VPN field. Click on Add

6. Click on New VPN List again and Put a VPN List Name of PoS_FW. Put 20,40 in the Add VPN field. Click on Add

7. Make sure that the following VPN lists show up, before proceeding

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 Task List

Overview
Configure VPN 40 on DC-vEdges
Configuration Cleanup and Routing Verification
Setting up VPN Lists
Inter VPN Routing Policies
Inter VPN Routing Verification
Policies for Service Chaining
Activity Verification

Inter VPN Routing Policies

1. Navigate to Configuration => Policies and locate the Site40-Guest-DIA Policy. Click on the three dots next to it and
choose to Edit the policy

2. Click on the Topology tab (top of the screen) and click on Add Topology. Choose to add a Custom Control (Route &
TLOC) policy

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3. Give the policy a Name of vpn10-inter-vpn20-40 with a Description of Control Policy for Inter VPN Routing from VPN
10 to VPNs 20 and 40. Click on Sequence Type and choose Route

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4. Click on Sequence Rule and add a VPN match. Select Corporate from the VPN List drop down

5. Click on the Actions tab and select the Accept radio button. Click on Export To and select PoS_FW from the drop
down under Actions. Click on Save Match And Actions

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6. Select Default Action on the left-hand side and click on the pencil icon to edit the Default Action

7. Click on Accept and then Save Match And Actions

8. Click Save Control Policy

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9. Click on Add Topology and add another Custom Control (Route & TLOC) policy. Give it a Name of vpn20-inter-
vpn10-40 with a Description of Control Policy for Inter VPN routing between VPN 20 and VPNs 10 and 40. Click on
Sequence Type and select Route

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10. Click on Sequence Rule and select VPN as the match. Select PoS from the VPN List

11. Click on the Actions tab and select the Accept radio button. Click on Export To and select the Corp_FW VPN list in
the Export To drop down under Actions. To save the rule, click on Save Match And Actions

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12. Click on Default Action on the left-hand side and click the Pencil icon to edit the Default Action

13. Select Accept and click Save Match And Actions

14. Click on Save Control Policy

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15. You should be back at the main policy screen. Click on the Policy Application tab and make sure you’re under the
Topology sub-tab (should not be under the main Topology tab). Click on New Site List under the entry for vpn10-
inter-vpn20-40 and select the Inbound Site List as Site20. Click on Add

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16. Click on New Site List under the entry for vpn20-inter-vpn10-40 and select the Inbound Site List as Site30. Click on
Add. Click on Save Policy Changes

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 17. Click on Activate to push the changes to the vSmarts

We have set up the policies for Inter VPN Routing.

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 Task List

Overview
Configure VPN 40 on DC-vEdges
Configuration Cleanup and Routing Verification
Setting up VPN Lists
Inter VPN Routing Policies
Inter VPN Routing Verification
Policies for Service Chaining
Activity Verification

Inter VPN Routing Verification

1. On the vManage GUI, navigate to Monitor => Network and click on vEdge20. Scroll down along the left-hand side
menu and click on Real Time. Enter IP Routes in the Device Options and select IP Routes when it pops up. Choose
Show Filters and enter a VPN ID of 10. Click on Search. The Routing Table for VPN 10 on vEdge20 should show
routes to subnets at Site 30 VPN 20

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2. Click on Select Device in the top left-hand corner and click on vEdge30

3. Click Show Filters and enter a VPN ID of 20. Click on Search

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4. You should see routes for Site 20 VPN 10

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5. Click on Troubleshooting on the left-hand side and make sure you have vEdge20 as the selected device. Enter a
Destination IP of 10.30.20.2 with a VPN of VPN - 10. Select a Source/Interface of ge0/2 (once again, verify that
you’re at the vEdge20 device. If not, click on the Select Device drop down from the top left-hand corner and select
vEdge20). Click on Start. Notice that we now have direct Inter VPN connectivity from Site 20 VPN 10 to Site 30 VPN
20

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 6. Click on Select Device in the top left-hand corner and select vEdge30. Enter a Destination IP of 10.20.10.2 with a
VPN of VPN - 20 and a Source/Interface of ge0/3. Click on Start. Notice that we now have direct Inter VPN
Connectivity from Site 30 VPN 20 to Site 20 VPN 10

This completes the verification of our Inter VPN Routing configuration.

Task List

Overview
Configure VPN 40 on DC-vEdges

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Setting up VPN Lists
Inter VPN Routing Policies
Inter VPN Routing Verification
Policies for Service Chaining
Activity Verification

Policies for Service Chaining

Direct connectivity between two VPNs might not be a desirable scenario. There might be a requirement to enforce certain
rules when two VPNs are communicating with each other. That’s where Service Chaining comes into the picture, where we
route Inter VPN traffic through an intermediary device (like a Firewall) to enforce our policies/rules. To reiterate, the traffic
flow should look like the diagram below at the end of this section vs. the direct connectivity that we have between VPNs right
now.

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The Black arrow between Site 20 and Site 30 indicates the traffic flow when Inter VPN Routing
configuration is done for the first time. Traffic flows directly between the two Sites.

The Orange arrow is the traffic flow from Site 20 VPN 10 to Site 30 VPN 20 once Service Chaining is
configured.

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Source IP: 10.20.10.2 or 10.20.10.3
Destination IP: 10.30.20.2

The Green arrow is the traffic flow from Site 30 VPN 20 to Site 20 VPN 10 once Service Chaining is
configured.

Source IP: 10.30.20.2

Destination IP: 10.20.10.2 or 10.20.10.3

1. On the vManage GUI, go to Configuration => Policies. Locate the Site40-Guest-DIA policy and click on the three
dots next to it. Choose to Edit the policy. Make sure you’re on the Topology tab and click on Add Topology. Choose
to add a Custom Control (Route and TLOC) topology

2. Give the Custom Control Policy a Name of site20-fw-site30 and a Description of Traffic from Site 20 to Site 30 via the
Firewall. Click on Sequence Type and choose Route

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3. Click on Sequence Rule and select Site for a Match Condition. Click on the Site List drop down and choose Site 30.
Click on the Actions tab

4. Select the Accept radio button and choose Service. Under Actions select the Service: Type as Net Service 1 and
specify a Service: VPN of 40. Select an Encapsulation of IPSEC and click on Save Match And Actions to save this
rule

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5. Click on Default Action on the left-hand side and click the pencil icon. Select Accept and then Save Match And
Actions. The Default Action should change to Accept Enabled. Click on Save Control Policy

6. Make sure you’re on the Topology tab and click on Add Topology. Choose to add a Custom Control (Route and
TLOC) topology. Give the Custom Control Policy a Name of site30-fw-site20 and a Description of Site 30 to Site 20 via
the firewall. Click on Sequence Type and choose Route

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7. Click on Sequence Rule and then select Site. Choose Site 20 in the Site List under Match Conditions. Click on
Actions

8. Select the Accept radio button and choose Service. Under Actions select the Service: Type as Net Service 2 and
specify a Service: VPN of 40. Select an Encapsulation of IPSEC and click on Save Match And Actions to save this
rule
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9. Click on Default Action on the left-hand side and click the pencil icon. Select Accept and then Save Match And
Actions. The Default Action should change to Accept Enabled. Click on Save Control Policy

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10. Go to the Policy Application tab and locate the site30-fw-site20 and site20-fw-site30 entries. For site30-fw-site20,
click on New Site List and choose Site30 in the out direction. Click on Add. Similarly, for site20-fw-site30, click on
New Site List and choose Site20 in the out direction. Click on Add. Click on Save Policy Changes. Activate the
change when prompted to do so

Task List

Overview
Configure VPN 40 on DC-vEdges
Configuration Cleanup and Routing Verification
Setting up VPN Lists
Inter VPN Routing Policies
Inter VPN Routing Verification
Policies for Service Chaining
Activity Verification

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Activity Verification
1. Log in to the console of vEdge20 (username and password given below) and enter ping vpn 10
10.100.40.2 to test connectivity between Site 20 VPN 10 and Site DC VPN 40. The pings should fail

Username Password

admin admin

This is due to the fact that we haven’t set up inter VPN connectivity between VPN 10/VPN 20 and VPN 40. It is vital to
ensure that the source and destination VPNs can access the Service Subnet.

2. On the vManage GUI, navigate to Configuration => Policies. Click on Custom Options on the top right-hand corner
and select Lists (under Centralized Policy). Click on VPN in the left-hand menu and then New VPN List. Enter a VPN
List Name of Corp_PoS and put 10,20 in the Add VPN field. Click on Add

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3. Go to Configuration => Policies and locate the Site40-Guest-DIA Policy. Click on the three dots next to it and choose
to Edit the policy. Click on the Topology tab (top of the screen) and click on Add Topology. Choose to add a Custom
Control (Route & TLOC) policy. Give the policy a Name of vpn40-inter-vpn10-20 with a Description of Control Policy for
Inter VPN Routing from VPN 40 to VPNs 10 and 20. Click on Sequence Type and choose Route

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4. Click on Sequence Rule and add a VPN match. Select FW from the VPN List drop down

5. Click on the Actions tab and select the Accept radio button. Click on Export To and select Corp_PoS from the drop
down under Actions. Click on Save Match And Actions

6. Select Default Action on the left-hand side and click on the pencil icon to edit the Default Action. Click on Accept
and then Save Match And Actions. Click Save Control Policy

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7. You should be back at the main policy screen. Click on the Policy Application tab and make sure you’re under the
Topology sub-tab (should not be under the main Topology tab). Click on New Site List under the entry for vpn40-
inter-vpn10-20 and select the Inbound Site List as DC. Click on Add. Click on Save Policy Changes. Click on
Activate to push the changes to the vSmarts

8. Head back over to the CLI of vEdge20 and type ping vpn 10 10.100.40.2. The pings should now be successful.
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 Type ping vpn 10 10.100.40.1 to ping the Firewall. This should also work

9. On the vManage GUI, go to Monitor => Network and select vEdge20. Click on Troubleshooting along the left-hand
menu and choose Traceroute. Enter a Destination IP of 10.30.20.2 and a VPN of VPN - 10. Set the
Source/Interface as ge0/2 and click on Start. We are thus doing a traceroute from Site 20 VPN 10 to Site 30 VPN 20

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 Notice that traffic doesn’t flow directly between the sites. Instead, it traverses the Firewall (IP of 10.100.40.1 in this
case) and then goes to Site 30 VPN 20.

10. Click on Select Device in the top left-hand corner and select vEdge30. Enter a Destination IP of 10.20.10.2 and a
VPN of VPN - 20. Specify a Source/Interface of ge0/3 and click on Start. We are doing a traceroute from Site 30
VPN 20 to Site 20 VPN 10

In this case as well, traffic traverses the Firewall (IP of 10.100.40.5) and then goes to Site 20 VPN 10.

This completes the Service Chaining lab activity.

Task List

Overview
Configure VPN 40 on DC-vEdges
Configuration Cleanup and Routing Verification
Setting up VPN Lists
Inter VPN Routing Policies
Inter VPN Routing Verification
Policies for Service Chaining
Activity Verification

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Configuring Cloud OnRamp for SaaS
Summary: Implementing Cloud OnRamp for SaaS in Cisco SD-WAN

Table of Contents
Overview

Prerequisite configuration for Cloud

OnRamp

Configuring Cloud OnRamp for SaaS

Verification and Testing

Task List

Overview
Prerequisite configuration for Cloud OnRamp
Configuring Cloud OnRamp for SaaS
Verification and Testing

Overview
With the changing network landscape, the way in which applications are consumed has also undergone a massive overhaul.
Applications being hosted in the cloud (Public/Private) are a common occurrence, rather than the exception.

Cloud OnRamp for SaaS monitors widely used Cloud Applications and arrives at a vQoE score (Viptela Quality of
Experience). Loss and latency are used to calculate the vQoE score and based on this, the solution routes traffic to the
Cloud Application via the optimal path. The vQoE value is calculated periodically to ensure persistent optimal application
performance.

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 Task List

Overview
Prerequisite configuration for Cloud OnRamp
Configuring Cloud OnRamp for SaaS
Verification and Testing

Prerequisite configuration for Cloud OnRamp

1. On the vManage GUI, navigate to Configuration => Templates => Feature Tab. Locate the vEdge30_INET template
and click on the three dots next to it. Choose to Edit the template

2. Scroll down to the NAT section and set NAT to a global value of On. Click on Update

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3. Click on Next and Configure Device. There are no changes to be made here since we are simply enabling NAT on
the interface.

4. On the vManage GUI, go to Configuration => Templates => Feature Tab. Locate the DC-vEdge_INET template and
click on the three dots next to it. Choose to Edit the template

Note: This step is not required if you have gone through the WAAS Integration. Please skip to the next section if
WAAS integration has been done.

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5. Scroll down to the NAT section and set NAT to a Global value of On. Click on Update. Click Next/Configure Devices
To finish the update to the devices. Confirm the change on two devices and click OK

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6. On the vManage GUI, go to Configuration => Templates => Feature Tab. Locate the DCvEdge-vpn0 template
and click on the three dots next to it. Choose to Edit the template
Change the DNS to 8.8.8.8 and 4.2.2.2 and Click Update and OK.

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We have enabled NAT on all the interfaces that will be communicating directly with the SaaS applications. There are other
prerequisites that need to be taken into consideration while deploying this in production (a few examples are devices should
be in vManage mode, DNS server details populated in VPN 0 etc.) but these have been fulfilled in our SD-WAN Network.

Task List

Overview
Prerequisite configuration for Cloud OnRamp
Configuring Cloud OnRamp for SaaS
Verification and Testing

Configuring Cloud OnRamp for SaaS

Go through the following steps in order to configure Cloud OnRamp for SaaS in our SD-WAN network.

1. On the vManage GUI, navigate to Administration => Settings

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2. Locate the Cloud onRamp for SaaS section and click on Edit. Set the radio button to Enabled and click on Save.
Cloud OnRamp for SaaS needs to be enabled system wide before it can be used

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3. Once enabled, click on the Cloud icon in the top right-hand of the screen and click on Cloud onRamp for SaaS

4. Click on Dismiss

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5. Click on Manage Cloud onRamp for SaaS (top right-hand corner) and click on Applications

6. Specify a random application (example shows Amazon AWS, but you can choose something else like Oracle or
Google Apps) and populate a VPN of 10

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7. Click on Cloud onRamp for SaaS (top right-hand corner) again and click on Direct Internet Access (DIA) Sites

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 8. Click on Attach DIA Sites and move Site 30 to the Selected Sites section. Click on Attach

9. Wait for the task to go through successfully. Once it is done, click on the Cloud icon in the top right corner and click
Cloud onRamp for SaaS

10. Click on Manage Cloud onRamp for SaaS and choose Gateways

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11. Click on Attach Gateways and move Site 1000 to the Selected Sites. Click on Attach (Make sure you select Viptela OS)

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12. If you go to Configuration => Cloud OnRamp for SaaS (or click the Cloud icon and go to Cloud onRamp for SaaS),
you should see the selected Application with 3 Devices attached to it. Click on the Application and the three Devices
should be tagged with a vQoE Status of Bad. Their vQoE score is 0.0, indicating that information hasn’t been collected
to arrive at a score. We will need to wait for some time (another tea/coffee?)

13. If you refresh the screen, you should notice devices gradually showing up with their vQoE score. Notice that vEdge30
is selecting a local path to the selected Application

Through the DIA configuration, we have provided vEdge30 with a local breakout to the Application and by adding Site
1 as the Gateway, traffic can be punted over the MPLS link to the DC site and sent out the Internet breakout there, in
the event of the local Site30 Internet breakout facing issues.

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 Task List

- Overview
Prerequisite configuration for Cloud OnRamp
Configuring Cloud OnRamp for SaaS
Verification and Testing

Verification and Testing

1. Navigate to Configuration => Template Device and locate the vEdge30_dev_temp template. Click on the three dots
next to it and choose to Edit

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2. Click on Additional Templates, select the Policy “Policer-AAR-Impairment” and click UPDATE. Click OK

3. Navigate to Configuration => Template => Feature Tab and locate the vEdge30_INET template. Click on the three
dots next to it and choose to Edit

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4. Scroll down to the ACL/QOS section and specify the ACL (Impair-PL-AAR) as shown below with the name . This will
inject delay on our INET link connected to vEdge30. Click on Update

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 5. Click on Next/Configure Devices. You can check the side by side configuration to see that the shaping rate is applied
to interface ge0/0 ( It will take some time for the config to push through).

6. Wait for some time and traffic to the chosen Application from vEdge30 (check via Cloud icon => Cloud onRamp for
SaaS => click on the Application) should have a DIA status of gateway, indicating that the DC Gateway is being used
to contact Amazon AWS (in this example). The local/remote color is mpls with the system-ip of the gateway being
used

The vQoE score might vary, as shown in the image below (it usually takes approximately 15 to 20 minutes for the
expected results to show up)

This completes the Cloud OnRamp for SaaS lab.

Task List

Overview
Prerequisite configuration for Cloud OnRamp
Configuring Cloud OnRamp for SaaS
Verification and Testing

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