There are two ways to onboard real or simulated devices:
Quick Add
Devices is a simplified way to add devices to your network.
If you choose to manage your devices directly from the cloud, you can onboard
real or simulated devices to your network. When you create simulated devices
with this method, you can also create Digital Twin devices. Create simulated
devices to help you prepare your network for real devices. You can create up to
20 Digital Twins,
each with a lifespan of 4 hours. For more information about the Digital Twin
feature, see About Digital Twin. If you choose to manage your devices locally, with an
on-premise controller, you can select ExtremeWireless WiNG, ExtremeXOS/Switch Engine,
or VOSS/Fabric Engine
devices. All you need is the device serial number.
Advanced
Onboarding is a guided process to add manually managed real
devices or cloud-managed real or simulated devices, assign locations, and either
assign an existing network policy or create and assign a new network
policy.
ExtremeCloud IQ supports many families of devices and
each family is sufficiently distinct from others to make onboarding them together
complicated. Multiple devices of the same family can always be onboarded together. The
following items cannot be
onboarded with devices from a different device family:
Any AP device family with any
switch or router family
