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).

Pre-requisites

• OpsRamp Classic Gateway 13.0.0 and above.

Default Monitoring Configurations

Silverpeak SDWAN application has default Global Device Management Policies, Global Templates, Global Monitors and Global Metrics in OpsRamp. You can customize these default monitoring configurations as per your business use cases by cloning respective Global Templates and Global Device Management Policies. OpsRamp recommends performing the below activity before installing the application to avoid noise alerts and data.

1. Default Global Device Management Policies

   OpsRamp has a Global Device Management Policy for each Native Type of Silverpeak SDWAN. You can find these Device Management Policies at Setup -> Resources -> Device Management Policies, search with suggested names in global scope. Each Device Management Policy follows below naming convention:

   {appName nativeType - version}

   Ex: silverpeak-sdwan Silverpeak Orchestrator - 1 (i.e, appName = silverpeak-sdwan, nativeType = Silverpeak Orchestrator version = 1)

2. Default Global Templates

   OpsRamp has a Global Template for each Native Type of Silverpeak SDWAN. You can find these templates at Setup -> Monitoring -> Templates, search with suggested names in global scope. Each template follows below naming convention:

   {appName nativeType 'Template' - version}

   Ex: silverpeak-sdwan Silverpeak Orchestrator Template - 1 (i.e, appName = silverpeak-sdwan, nativeType = Silverpeak Orchestrator, version = 1)

3. Default Global Monitors

   OpsRamp has a Global Monitors for each Native Type which has monitoring support. You can find these monitors at Setup -> Monitoring -> Monitors, search with suggested names in global scope. Each Monitors follows below naming convention:

   {monitorKey appName nativeType - version}

   Ex: Silverpeak Orchestrator Monitor silverpeak-sdwan Silverpeak Orchestrator 1 (i.e, monitorKey = Silverpeak Orchestrator Monitor, appName = silverpeak-sdwan, nativeType = Silverpeak Orchestrator, version = 1)

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. From All Clients, select a client.
2. Go to Setup > Integrations and Apps.
3. Click Manage Apps.
   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.

4. Click + ADD on the INSTALLED APPS page. The AVAILABLE INTEGRATIONS AND APPS page displays all the available applications along with the newly created application with the version.
   Note: You can even search for the application using the search option available. Also you can use the All Categories option to search.

5. Click ADD in the Silverpeak SDWAN application.
6. In the Configurations page, click + ADD. The Add Configuration page appears.
7. 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.

8. In the Custom Attributes section, select the custom attribute key and value from the dropdown boxes.
   Note:
   • The custom attribute that you add here will be assigned to all the resources that are created by the configuration.
   • You can add a maximum of 5 custom attributes (key and value pair).
   • The custom attribute that you add should be created at the client level.
9. 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.
10. In the DISCOVERY SCHEDULE section, select Recurrence Pattern to add one of the following patterns:
    • Minutes
    • Hourly
    • Daily
    • Weekly
    • Monthly
11. Click ADD.

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.

12. Click NEXT.
13. 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 above alerts.
• Macro replacement limitation (i.e, customization of threshold breach alert subject, description).
• This application supports only Classic Gateway and NextGen Gateway. Not supported with Cluster Gateway.
• Component level thresholds can be configured on each resource level.
• No support for the option to get Latest snapshot metric.
• No support of showing applied time on templates.