Expert Insights Series
Catalyst SD-WAN Ignite Series
Discover how Catalyst SD-WAN control policies optimize traffic, enforce security, and ensure compliance through centralized management. Learn to use Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager for real-time monitoring and troubleshooting, and see how Cloud OnRamp delivers reliable, automated cloud connectivity. The series also covers best practices for converting device templates and policies into configuration and policy groups, with step-by-step deployment demonstrations.
Catalyst SD-WAN control policies define how traffic is routed and managed across the network. They include traffic engineering, VPN membership, topology, and traffic filtering policies, enabling optimization of performance, security enforcement, and compliance. These policies are centrally configured on Cisco SD-WAN Controllers and influence routing and data flow in the overlay network.
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager (formerly vManage) provides a highly visualized dashboard for centralized configuration, management, operation, and monitoring of the SD-WAN fabric. It offers real-time and historic network and application health visibility, troubleshooting tools, and support case management integration.
Cloud OnRamp enables optimized and reliable connectivity from WAN locations to multiple cloud platforms. It provides dynamic path selection for SaaS applications, consolidates branch egress points, automates cloud connectivity, and monitors underlay performance to ensure continuous uptime and predictable performance.
Converting device templates and centralized policies to configuration groups and policy groups. Covers best practices for creating configuration groups and policy groups using workflows, Cisco catalogs, and manual methods. Demonstrates how to associate and deploy these configurations to a device via a lab demo.
