Add Devices Overview

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
Switch Engine Switches
Fabric Engine Switches
Universal Hardware Switches
ExtremeWireless WiNG Controller
ExtremeCloud IQ Controller
ExtremeCloud IQ Site Engine
Universal Appliances
Tunnel Concentrator instances

Important

AP5022 and AP5060U/D devices cannot be onboarded in ExtremeCloud IQ. AP5022 and AP5060U/D devices must be onboarded and managed in Extreme Platform ONE Networking or ExtremeCloud IQ (New). Monitoring and statistics for AP5022 and AP5060U/D devices are available in ExtremeCloud IQ when the devices are managed locally through a controller.

When an AP is powered on for the first time, it begins a sequence of steps to connect to the network. For more information, see the Universal AP Boot and Onboarding Process.