Appliances

You can access the Appliances page by clicking in the left main menu of ExtremeCloud SD-WAN or in the Appliances widget on the Dashboard.

Overview

The Overview dashboard displays the appliances of your network.

Search

Search Appliance: To narrow the list of appliances, start typing in the name of the appliance you want to display. The list automatically updates, based on what you type. You can also search using Sites, and Serial Numbers in the search field.

Time Range Selector and Timeline

These display parameters are visible at the top of the Appliance window and apply to the displayed appliances.

1 Select a Time Range period by selecting it from the list : Last Day (default), Last Week, Last Month, Custom.
2 According to the chosen time range, the Time Span selectors listed below are displayed at the right side of the Time Range Selector. Use these selectors to modify the time span of the displayed data:

1hour, 2 hours, 4 hours, 8 hours, 24 hours, 1 day, 2 days, 7 days, 14 days, 30 days, 90 days

You can customize the time span by defining the date and time manually.

Click Column Picker in the upper right corner to select or deselect the columns to display appliances.

The following column information is displayed by default:

• Appliances: name of the appliance
• Sites: associated site
• Appliance State: if Managed, the appliance is managed by ExtremeCloud SD-WAN. If the appliance is Unmanaged, it is not configured/deployed and there is no traffic routing, nor monitoring or alarming. The appliance license is not consumed.
• Status: connected or disconnected in the network
• Fabric LLDP Signaling: LLDP including Fabric Extend TLVs is received or not (due to missing configuration, LLDP exception, etc.). Only appears if Fabric Support is enabled.
• Configuration Status
• Serial Number
• Firmware: build number. The following icons indicate the firmware upgrade status.
• : Available for firmware upgrade
• : Scheduled for firmware upgrade
• : Firmware upgrade is in progress
• : Firmware upgrade has failed
• Management IP: Management IP address
• Template: associated template
• Last update: date when the appliance was updated
• Action: enables you to delete the appliance

The following columns can be added to the table:

• Appliance Model
• Mac Address
• WANs

Note that you can sort appliances by clicking each column header.

Appliance Details

In the Overview table, click the Appliance Name.

Click Overlay or Underlay to view the map for the selected layer.

• The left pane of the window is a summary of the appliance configuration and policy. You can edit both of them. Refer to "Configuring Appliances", "Creating Appliance Templates", "Configuring the Network Policy"
• The Fabric Support summary contains Fabric Switch information and status as well as Peering information. It also enables you to display the corresponding Fabric Engine page in ExtremeCloud IQ Site Engine.
• Click the Peers link to display The Peering Status table.

This table enables you to monitor the state of Vxlan tunnels (Fabric Extend tunnels) thanks to the Remote SD-WAN Appliance name, GRE/IPSEC or MPLS connectivity state, Fabric Switch name and IS-IS adjacency state without using any other tool such as ExtremeCloud IQ Site Engine.

• Click the XIQSE link under Managed by -> Application to display the appropriate Device page of ExtremeCloud IQ Site Engine. Refer to the Devices section of the ExtremeCloud IQ Site Engine User Guide.
• The appliance location is represented by a red flag on the map. All Appliance Connections are also shown with the number of existing alarms. Click the Alarms widget to view alarm details. Refer to "Alarms Management"
• Click the Connection Details button to display the connection details, i.e. the overlays with their status (up or down), their destination site and destination appliance/interface. You can download this information as an Appliance_Connection_Data.csv file.
• The lower panel summary displays the number of appliance interfaces with their throughput, CPU Usage and when the DHCP Server service is activated, the number of active DHCP leases and the maximum number of possible leases (network devices that are active and use the DHCP Server).
• Click the Active link to display the Advanced Troubleshooting window.

In the Overview table, click the Site Name associated with each appliance. Refer to "Sites".