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Day0 & Day1 Provisioning

Before we start with the deployment of the Day 0-1 configuration of our fabric, let’s check if the configuration of the fabric is empty.

Under the Device Templates and feature templates, you should be seeing only the default configuration.

Device Configuration

Device Templates

Feature Templates

Step 2: Localized and Centralized Policies

Section titled “Step 2: Localized and Centralized Policies”

You can also check for the Localized and Centralized policies under the policy section.

Policy

Centralized Policies

Please go back to the main page of your GitLab project where we logged in in the Getting Started section.

GitLab Login

Open the “nac sdwan example” project and create a new branch. From the menu, by pressing on the +, create a new branch and name it Day0.

GitLab SD-WAN Project

Create Branch

GitLab SD-WAN Project

Open the WEB IDE UI so we can edit the repository easily.

GitLab SD-WAN Project WEB IDE UI

From the temp folder, copy all YAML files into the data folder by using drag and drop in the WEB IDE and confirm the move step.

GitLab SD-WAN TEMP Copy WEB IDE UI

GitLab SD-WAN TEMP Copy WEB IDE UI

Submit the code by committing the 12 changes in the code on the left side using the commit message “SD-WAN initial config”.

GitLab SD-WAN Initial Commit WEB IDE UI

Close the window and go to the main previous page of GitLab. Check the status of the pipeline for the branch Day0.

Validation Pipeline Day0

Now, perform a merge request for Day0 to Main and approve it.

Merge Request Day0

After the merge request will pass press on Merge for performing merging and wait until passing all steps.

Merge Request Day0

Now the full pipeline is triggered and should be running as below. Wait until all steps have passed.

Pipeline Pass Day1

Now log in to the SD-WAN and check the setup of the feature templates and centralized policies. You should be able to see all provisioned into the SD-WAN vManage.

Step 12: Day 1 Feature Templates & Device Templates

Section titled “Step 12: Day 1 Feature Templates & Device Templates”

Under the SD-WAN feature templates, we should now see more feature templates added, and also under device templates, we have 3 more devices configured.

Device Templates Day 1

Feature Templates Day 1

Step 13: Centralized Policies and Localized Policies

Section titled “Step 13: Centralized Policies and Localized Policies”

If we check now under the centralized and localized policies, we will see we have one centralized policy and 3 local policies configured.

Centralized Policies

Localized Policies