Silverpeak SDWAN

Introduction

A software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) is a more intelligent, cloud-first way to build a WAN. It improves business productivity and end-user quality of experience, accelerates business initiatives, and lowers costs. As applications continue to migrate to the cloud, enterprises are realizing that an SD-WAN is a better way to accelerate business initiatives and enable digital transformation.

Silverpeak orchestrator enables you to globally monitor performance and manage EdgeConnect (EC) appliances, whether you are configuring a WAN Optimization network (NX, VX, or VRX appliances) or an SD-WAN network (EC or EC-V appliances).

Prerequisites

The OpsRamp Gateway must be installed.

Hierarchy of Silverpeak SD WAN

Silverpeak Orchestrator
     - Silverpeak Appliance
           - Silverpeak Tunnel
           - Silverpeak ECOS Bonded Tunnel
           - Silverpeak ECOS Third Party Tunnel
           - Silverpeak ECOS Interface
           - Silverpeak ECOS Disk

Configure and install the integration

1. Go to Setup > Integrations and Apps.

2. Click + ADD on the INSTALLED APP page. The ADD APP page displays all the available applications along with the newly created application with the version.
   Notes:

   • If there are already installed applications, it will redirect to the INSTALLED APPS page, where all the installed applications are displayed.
   • If there are no installed applications, it will navigate to the ADD APP page.
   • You can even search for the application using the search option available. Also you can use the All Categories option to search.

     

3. Click ADD in the Silverpeak SDWAN application.

4. In the Configurations page, click + ADD. The Add Configuration page appears.

5. Enter the below mentioned BASIC INFORMATION:

Notes:

• By default the Is Secure checkbox is selected.
• App Failure Notifications: if turned on, you will be notified in case of an application failure that is, Connectivity Exception, Authentication Exception.

6. In the RESOURCE TYPE section, select:

   • ALL: All the existing and future resources will be discovered.
   • SELECT: You can select one or multiple resources to be discovered.

7. In the DISCOVERY SCHEDULE section, select Recurrence Pattern to add one of the following patterns:

   • Minutes
   • Hourly
   • Daily
   • Weekly
   • Monthly

8. Click ADD.

9. Now the configuration is saved and displayed on the configurations page after you save it.
   Note: From the same page, you may Edit and Remove the created configuration.

10. Click NEXT.

11. In the Installation page, select an existing registered gateway profile, and click FINISH.

The application is now installed and displayed on the INSTALLED INTEGRATION page. Use the search field to find the installed application.

Modify the Configuration

• See Modify an Installed Integration or Application article.

  Note: Select the Silverpeak SDWAN application.

View the Silverpeak SDWAN details

The discovered resource(s) are displayed in Infrastructure > Resources > Silverpeak SDWAN. You can navigate to the Attributes tab to view the discovery details, and Metrics tab to view the metric details for Silverpeak SDWAN.

Supported Metrics

Risks and Limitations

• Application can handle Critical/Recovery failure notifications for below two cases when user enables App Failure Notifications in configuration
  • Connectivity Exception
  • Authentication Exception
• Application will not send any duplicate/repeat failure alert notification until the already existing critical alert is recovered.
• Using metrics for monitoring the resources and generating alerts when the threshold values are breached.
• Application cannot control monitoring pause/resume actions based on the above alerts.
• No support for the option to get Latest snapshot metric.
• No support of showing applied time on templates.