Introduction

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The following sections provide an overview of Cisco: Viptela devices and the Cisco: Viptela PowerPack:

What is Cisco: Viptela?

Cisco: Viptela provides a cloud-based, software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) solution. Cisco: Viptela includes advanced routing, segmentation, and security capabilities for enterprise networks. Cisco: Viptela's cloud-based network management and orchestration technologies help you deploy and manage the latest WAN architectures.

What Does the Cisco: Viptela PowerPack Monitor?

To monitor Cisco: Viptela resources using the ScienceLogic platform, you must install the Cisco: Viptela PowerPack. This PowerPack enables you to discover, model, and collect data about Viptela resources.

The Cisco: Viptela PowerPack includes:

  • Example credentials that you can use as templates to create SOAP/XML credentials to connect to Viptela

  • The "Cisco: Viptela vManage Template" for aligning all dynamic applications to the root component device

  • Dynamic Applications to discover, model, and monitor performance metrics or collect configuration data for the following Cisco: Viptela resources:
  • vManage
  • vSmart Controller
  • vEdge Routers
  • vBond Orchestrator
  • Device Classes for each type of Cisco: Viptela device monitored:
  • ASR1000 Series
  • ISR1000 Series
  • ISR4000 Series
  • vBond Orchestrator
  • vEdge
  • vEdge Cloud
  • vEdge 100
  • vEdge 1000
  • vEdge 5000
  • vEdge 2000
  • vEdge 100-B
  • vEdge 100-M
  • vEdge 100-WM
  • vEdge Container
  • vManage
  • vSmart Controller
  • Event Policies and corresponding alerts that are triggered when Viptela resources meet certain status criteria
  • Dashboards that display information about Cisco: Viptela component devices

Installing the Cisco: Viptela PowerPack

Before completing the steps in this section, you must import and install the latest version of the Cisco: Viptela PowerPack.

By default, installing a new version of a PowerPack overwrites all content from a previous version of that PowerPack that has already been installed on the target system. You can use the Enable Selective PowerPack Field Protection setting in the Behavior Settings page (System > Settings > Behavior) to prevent new PowerPacks from overwriting local changes for some commonly customized fields. For more information, see the section on Global Settings.

Ensure that you are running version 12.1.2 or later of SL1 before installing this PowerPack. For details on upgrading SL1, see the relevant SL1 Platform Release Notes.

To download and install the PowerPack:

  1. Search for and download the PowerPack from the PowerPacks page (Product Downloads > PowerPacks & SyncPacks) at the ScienceLogic Support Site.
  2. In SL1, go to the PowerPacks page (System > Manage > PowerPacks).
  3. Click the Actions button and choose Import PowerPack. The Import PowerPack dialog box appears.
  4. Click [Browse] and navigate to the PowerPack file from step 1.
  5. Select the PowerPack file and click Import. The PowerPack Installer modal displays a list of the PowerPack contents.
  6. Click Install. The PowerPack is added to the PowerPacks page.

If you exit the PowerPack Installer modal without installing the imported PowerPack, the imported PowerPack will not appear in the PowerPacks page. However, the imported PowerPack will appear in the Imported PowerPacks modal. This page appears when you click the Actions menu and select Install PowerPack.