Cisco SD-WAN - LiveNX

LiveNX Operations Dashboard Admin Guide

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The Cisco SD-WAN tab provides integration to Cisco vManage. In Cisco SDWAN environments, LiveNX will poll vManage for SDWAN alerts, configuration and tunnel statistics.


Cisco SD-WAN

To integrate LiveNX to vManage enter the vManage hostname or IP address, set the username and password, and click Save.

If required, and a proxy is required to connect to vManage, click Add HTTP Header and enter the Key and Value. When finished, click Submit.


Add Cisco SD-WAN connection

Once LiveNX has established a connection with vManage, the Status shows as Connected.

LiveNX can import cEdge and vEdge router inventory from vManage.


Status - Connected

To begin this process, click Discover.


Discover devices

Enter the IP address(es) of interest in the Specify IP Ranges field to define the IP range of SD-WAN devices LiveNX will discover from vManage. These device’s management IPs must have connectivity to LiveNX.


Discover Devices - Specify IP ranges

LiveNX Sites and vManage Sites are defined differently. To ensure vManage sites are accurately mapped to LiveNX sites, click Set Mapping.


Discover Devices - Set Mapping button

The Cisco SD-WAN Site Mapping modal appears.


Cisco SD-WAN Mapping modal

To add an individual site, click Add.


Site Mapping - Add button

Enter the SD-WAN Site ID and LiveNX Site Name and click Add.


Edit Site Mappping

Repeat for all SD-WAN Site ID’s and LiveNX Site Names to be added into the system.

When done, the site mapping is listed.


List of sites

If desired, sites can also be added via CSV file. Click Import CSV File to import a CSV.


List of sites - Import CSV File button

Below is an example CSV.


Example .csv file
Note: The example file also includes the existing LiveNX site(s) already defined in LiveNX. These sites can be associated with Cisco SD-WAN (Viptela) site ID’s.

If there are any invalid entries in the .csv file, the rows will be ignored.

When ready, click Save & Next.


Specify IP Ranges - Save & Next button

The SNMP Settings tab appears. Select the desired SNMP credentials for LiveNX to monitor these SDWAN devices.

Note: Easy onboarding via API integration to vManage and the SNMP polling of the devices are separate processes. If the SNMP settings are incorrect or if LiveNX does not have connectivity to the devices via SNMP – the devices will show up as gray or unreachable.

When ready, click Save & Next.


SNMP Settings - Save & Next button

The Node tab appears. From the Specify Node picker, select the LiveNX Node that will monitor these SDWAN devices.

When ready, click Discover.


Specify Node - Discover button

The Device Management page appears and displays the discovery progress log.


Device Management - Discovery logs

The devices discovered from vManage appears on the LiveNX Discovered Devices tab.


Device Management - Discovered Devices

Adding these discovered devices to the LiveNX inventory is now identical to device discovery of any other SNMP monitored device.

If desired, select the devices and click Edit to set or override the device site name, group and polling settings.

If desired, click Select Interfaces to define which interfaces LiveNX should monitor on these SDWAN devices. Or, to use the default learned settings, click Add All Devices.