Now we had mentioned previously that we were waiting on our dashboard in
sandbox environment to load up and it finally has so let's go ahead and take a
look at what's actually going on.
Now as you can see on the screen here we're loaded up in what looks to be a
very realistic scenario inside of our web browser and this is what it's going
to look like in a real world environment.
Now I bring that up because there are a couple of things that we really need to
point out here before we continue.
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First and foremost here is that platform as a service gives us an application
level but you may be thinking that this is in a web browser so it's software as
a service.
Well this is just for us to be able to access what's actually going on to be
able to experiment inside of our Cisco platform as a service model.
Now remember we went with the catalyst center sandbox to be able to demonstrate
some basic things that we normally do inside of the Cisco world but I want to
point out that when it cranks up you're going to have your four devices that WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
point out that when it cranks up you're going to have your four devices that
are inside of the sandbox environment to simulate management at that network
technician level.
So what we want to do is be able to access these systems through their web
prompts because remember we're simulating the PAS and not actually having it on
site with us.
Now you may be wondering how do we access these through their actual web
addresses glad you asked because inside of this lab here matter fact let me WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
addresses glad you asked because inside of this lab here matter fact let me
move my camera over just a little bit so I could show you.
Because we're going to see if I can look right at it as we're going to it there
's a quick link icon that I just click on that allows us to be able to go
through and see some web or VPN information sorry it's like trying to walk it
to bubble gum at the same time here.
We have a VPN address VPN username and VPN password now normally if you've been WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
We have a VPN address VPN username and VPN password now normally if you've been
in my courses before you'll know that I have very big issue showing passwords
and stuff like this.
In this particular case I don't because the labs about to shut down when I'm
done with the skill and when I crank up another one it'll generate a new
username password that's where to fact multifactor authentication might come in
handy in case some of you out there were to try to get my lab after this is
published right in here for stuff later right.
Now this VPN address that we're going to copy here we're going to utilize and I WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
Now this VPN address that we're going to copy here we're going to utilize and I
'm going to open it up and drag it over Cisco any connect I have it.
It's not visible on screen let me see if I can fix that here momentarily you're
going to input the information and hit on connect for that web address and it's
going to utilize the username and password that you see there on the screen.
E-Coron and then our VPN password that I can easily copy and then put inside of
our web connect address.
Gonna click OK it's going to connect and there we go for a second it's still WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
Gonna click OK it's going to connect and there we go for a second it's still
loading up.
And you may have just heard that in the background and that was Cisco any
connect being able to open up now give me one second I want to show you a
different window here to demonstrate what just happened.
In our command prompt inside windows I'm just going to do a simple IP config
scroll up and show you that we just VPN inside of the lab dot devnet sandbox
dot local network. WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
dot local network.
The reason I'm pointing this out is because this is the actual VPN connection
that allowed us to be able to go inside our system here in our demonstration
mode to be able to go through and connect on the web interface.
Because some of these devices as I swap back over to our sandbox environment
are going to have a address for us to be able to go into.
I do want to click let me move my little window over a little bit so you can
see and I'll look over.
I should be looking at it now where I'm clicking back on instructions and then WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
I should be looking at it now where I'm clicking back on instructions and then
you can scroll down in there under access details and be able to see where we
have and I'm going to highlight here.
The username passwords and IP addresses for us to be able to get into these
systems now very briefly.
This is just a information inside of this lab environment so when we go back
and take a look at our IP address that we got from the VPN side that should be
full explanation of what's actually going on because you can ping those IP WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
full explanation of what's actually going on because you can ping those IP
addresses from your windows command prompt now that your VPN.
So the first one that I want to go into is our DNA center and we're going to
type that into the address bar and use our credentials of admin and Cisco 123
for explanation point very simply.
I'm just opening up another window here or tab inside of my browser and it's
going to take a second to load you may get an error that says not trusted and WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
going to take a second to load you may get an error that says not trusted and
that's because the certificate for this particular site has not been put in our
.
certificate authority for the local system that's okay as long as you
understand what's going on it's it's okay to go into and I already input my
credentials but it is that Cisco and admin 123 for pound and this is the.
So this is a place where we come back to to show all of our network here now
there's not much of a network actually going on but this is where this this WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
there's not much of a network actually going on but this is where this this
platform right here this application would be available to us developers to be
able to go through maintain and also implement configuration and security for
those different devices throughout our organization and as you can see we have
four network devices.
One network profile one Cisco DNA license device or four of them my mistake and
you and the reason that we have an error warning on this is because we're in WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
you and the reason that we have an error warning on this is because we're in
sandbox mode so if this is just a health summary of what's actually going to be
coming on here pretty soon and as you can see up here at the top this is what
confused me for a second Cisco DNA center is becoming catalyst center and that
's why we're in catalyst center.
And I'm going to go to the top left and click on the three little lines there
and open up our menu to be able to go through and browse some of the options
that we have available for us and I'm going to go inside of tools and show you WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
that we have available for us and I'm going to go inside of tools and show you
here that there's a couple of different things that we can do we can develop a
topology dude system or network discovery but more importantly I want to go in
template of.
And first that's just the border lane to the new what it's going to be called
in the future and this allows us to be able to go through and not only look at
templates but also configure those templates and be able to base it off of
different network devices and profiles that we have within the organization. WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
different network devices and profiles that we have within the organization.
These are the ones that are loaded up inside the by default inside of our data
catalyst center here inside of our sandbox and we'll be going through and
taking a look at these in more detail as the skill unfolds primarily I wanted
to show you that and how to be able to get into it because this is provides us
a hands on in order to be able to understand how platform as a service works
inside of our Cisco environment.
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We're able to take an application that's going to be available to us to manage
our network devices for those people and users and data that's across our
organization and it gives us more controlled implement security as we start
moving forward.
we inform.