All right, we want to build out our topology.
Again, we're going to expand it a little bit.
We'll just kind of start by zooming out here.
And what we're going to do is, by the end of this,
have quite a few new areas.
We're going to have some new sites,
and we're going to have some SD-WAN edges.
And we're also going to see that we've
got a couple of clouds, new weigh-in circuits.
And so we're going to start by taking a look at what we have.
So what we have is we have this unmanaged switch called VPN0.
We're going to say this is VPN0-internet.
This is our internet circuit.
And so we're going to make sure that we know
that that's what it is from now on.
We're also going to go ahead and drag another one down.
So we've got to look for the unmanaged switch down
all the way at the bottom.
And we're going to call this also VPN0, except this is MPLS.
Again, air quotes MPLS, but it's going
to be our MPLS circuit.
Let's go ahead and zoom in a little bit here.
And in fact, if you want to, we can compress these down
a little bit, try to make it so that all of our devices
fit in a little bit tighter space.
That's totally up to you whether you want to do that or not.
But if you wanted to kind of keep looking the same as what
we have here, then maybe take a few moments to do that.
Whoops.
And zoom in all over the place there.
OK.
So whoops, that also gets dragged up.
There we go.
And I didn't mean to click on CPU utilization.
OK.
So now what we're going to do is we're
going to create our couple of sites.
We can use rectangles for this.
So I could create a rectangle like maybe here.
And we'll make that site 11.
There we go.
And then we'll make another rectangle for site 12.
And then we'll make a rectangle over here.
Got to click rectangle again.
And we'll make this site 13.
So next, what we want to do is bring out the edge devices
themselves.
So what we'll do is click on the node add node link.
And we want to find specifically catalyst SD-WAN edges.
Don't get mixed up.
Yes, this is an 8000V image, but it's
running in SD-WAN operation, whereas the CAT 8000V,
even though it's also an 8000V, it's running in iOS XE version.
We also don't want to grab, for example, the V edge,
the classic option.
We want to grab edge.
So I'm going to drag this down.
And we're going to drag four of them out here.
We'll put them kind of in this rectangular type of shape.
There we go.
And we should have four of them.
Let's go ahead and click on them and just give them names
just so that they have them.
At this point, we're going to call this edge 11.
And this device, edge 12, make it so that all of these
have the name that we can recognize.
Now, again, this configuration doesn't
change the actual device config.
It just changes it in our diagram,
so it looks a little prettier.
OK, so at this point, what we're going to do--
let's rearrange just a little bit.
So I want to make this really easy to see.
I'm going to pull this control environment up here a little bit.
And we'll just drag all of these devices and sites up.
And there we go.
So now we've got 11 and 12 there.
And we've got to move this site up as well.
And now we can kind of connect things in a little tighter space.
It'll make it a little more easy to do.
So what we're going to do is we're going to treat each one
of these unmanaged switches as our network circuits,
or as our WAN circuits.
So I'm going to right click, say Add Link for edge 11.
I'm going to connect it to the internet.
And for the most part, we're going to just take the default.
Although I will say it's important
that we connect gig 1 up to the internet
to start with just for the sake of consistency.
So go to the internet first and then go to MPLS, gig 1
and gig 2.
Now I'm going to add gig 1 and gig 2 here.
And then edge 13 is only going to connect up to the internet
because again, over on this side,
as we designed with our topology, what we really want to do
is connect our devices to this basically,
except I'm going to change this to be--
actually, no, we're going to leave that as gig 1.
All right, so gig 1.
So we want this to be sort of our primary topology here.
However, edge 14 is on an island down here,
is not able to get up to the controllers and out to the internet.
So we're going to go ahead and add another link here
and go to the internet.
So we'll just leave that at gig 2.
All right, and so that is pretty much where we want to leave it.
Now we could go ahead and also, for example,
click on one of these text blocks, click clone,
and then we'll drag this one down here.
Now layering is a little interesting in CML.
It's right here.
We see the layer, so I can bring it up.
So eventually, it's in front of all of the rectangles.
It can maybe rearrange things a little bit.
But this is going to be the .254 subnet as we specified there.
And then I could also do things like this, where I say, OK,
let's go ahead and clone this.
And now we're just going to call this .11.
And we're going to put .11 over here.
But again, pay attention to the layering.
Let's bring it up to the top so we can see it.
And so that'll be our edge 11 devices, .11.
So you can play around with this.
Again, it doesn't have to perfectly match exactly what we
have when we're demoing it, as long as the topology is sound.
You can try to make it so that things are aligned a little bit
better so you can keep seeing things.
So we could actually put all of these out here.
So not just .11, but also .12.
Bring that down here for our edge 12.
Now also be aware in CML that by default,
it wants to align things to a grid, which might not
be perfect in all situations.
And so what we can also do here, if I can get that text again,
there we go, is we can come up to the gear,
turn off the magnet, which is the snap to grid.
And now I can move it around seamlessly or smoothly,
put it exactly where I wanted to go.
So maybe I wanted .11 to go right in the middle there.
That 12, maybe fit in the middle.
I don't think it can fit quite in there.
So I'll just put it over here, for example.
And then we could do .13 and .14 as well.
So play around with this as much as you want.
Again, the goal here, we're not bringing this online here
in the skill.
Mostly we just want to make sure that our topology is physically,
if that's the right word for a virtual environment,
but is physically built out, which
will allow us to apply configuration moving forward.
Also very importantly, I'm trying to grab that .13.
All right, there we go.
We'll grab that one.
Very importantly as well, we are not turning on any of these
devices.
I suppose you could turn on the unmanaged switch,
if we so desired.
But I'm going to come up here and re-enable grid
before I forget about it.
But what we're going to end up doing, as we zoom out here,
is we're going to find that we're
going to try to bring these different sites online.
Eventually we'll apply devices and subnets behind them.
But starting in the next skill, our goal
is going to be to apply a specific type of configuration
to these edge devices and allow them to come online.