Before we call this one good, we want to do a little bit of
call it initial configuration. And it's going to take just a couple of minutes.
So what we want to
do is we want to start by coming over here on the left to administration and go
to settings.
We're going to do a couple of quick things. So first of all, we're just going
to scroll down to the
system section. Let's see, there it is. So we're going to click on organization
name and again,
oops, they want me to make sure that I am authorized for this because it will
mess up certificates
and all kinds of things if we change this incorrectly. This is that
organization name that we've
already put in a couple of times, we're going to use this for certificates. But
I want to put it in
here within manager. And then I can over on the left find my system section.
And then I can click
validator. And I want to enter the IP address. So yes, I know we already did
this. This is our
VPN zero, by the way, so 255.171. And unless we change the port, this port 123
46 is a very important
port. It's what we're going to use to connect to our validator slash V bond. So
I'm just going to
click save here. Fortunately, we don't have to have that memorized for the sake
of configuring
things, because it's right here, we might have to have it memorized for exams
and just in case
it comes up for firewalls and this and that. So either way, we did those two
things, we wanted to get
the settings set there. But the other thing I'm going to recommend we go ahead
and do is scroll
the way up Cisco account section, we want to go to smart account credentials. I
'm going to recommend
we go ahead and put this in. So I'm going to go and enter my username and
password. And then once
we click save, we should get a pop up saying that we are officially connected.
Now pay attention.
This is our real Cisco username and password. So you need to have a Cisco
account in order to
get this spun up in order to use Cisco to sign our certificates, which is what
we're going to do.
So make sure you log in with your actual, if I were to go to Cisco.com, the
username and password
he used to log in there. That is the username and password that you are using
to log in here.
And when you click save, you should get a pop up saying that that connection
was successful.
Now a couple last things here. As far as initial configuration, we're going to
go over to
configuration over here on the left. And we're going to come down to our
devices. And notice Cisco's
calling these control components can't call them controllers anymore because
one of the names is
controller, scan unfortunate. We see that we're aware of the manager because we
're logged into it.
We need to add our validator and we need to add our controller. So let's go
ahead and do that.
Validator management IP address. This is again out VPN zero. So the validator
is 171 username,
use an admin connection or account here. This is very important because signing
certificates will
not work unless we're using an administrator account. So add the validator, we
should see that that
successful and then add the controller 192.168.255.173 in my environment. Just
make sure you're using
the correct one there. Once again, use admin Cisco as the password if you're
using the default settings.
And then we can change the protocol here. This is where we can select dts or
TLS. The
validator always uses dts, which is why it didn't work. However, if we specify
TLS, we're going to
need to specify the port here so we can just leave that as dts to keep things
simple in our lab
environment. So at this point, we've added them. But if we come back to monitor
overview, we're
going to find that they haven't actually shown up here because we're not, we
don't have the
certificates in place and we haven't formed our tunnels yet. That's why
certificate status
shows three invalid certificate situations. So next up, we're going to resolve
the certificate
conundrum. But for now, we have established pretty good initial configuration
for our SDWAN
environment.