Adding vEdges / cEdges List to vManage in EVE-NG

This post is about making vEdges and cEdges working inside EVE-NG simulation environment which does not focus on basic concepts.

You need to have a Cisco Smart Account with you for this. 

Go to Cisco Software Central > Network Plug and Play Connect

 Select Controller Profiles

  + Add Profile

    Controller type -> VBOND

    Fill the reqired details like Profile Name, Organization Name, Primary Controller IP address which        is the VBOND IP

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Then need to add the devices going again to Cisco Software Central > Plug and Play Connect

 Select Devices > +Add Software Devices

In Identify Device you should provide the Base PID (VEDGE-CLOUD-DNA for vEdges and CSR1KV for my cEdge), Quantity and the Controller Profile which you created for VBOND..

Now if you go to Cisco Software Central > Plug and Play Connect > Devices, you can see the devices are provisioned.

From now onwards you can do 2 things to onboard the provisioned devices to vManage.

1. Let vManage sync with your Cisco Smart Account through internet

2. Download serialFile.viptela from Smart Account portal and upload it to vManage manually

I am using the second option.

Go to Cisco Software Central > Plug and Play Connect

 Select Controller Profiles

 Download the "Provisioning File"

Now go to vManage > Configuration > Upload WAN Edge List and upload the downloaded file.

You can see the list of Devices are pushed to the vManage, vBond and vSmart.

You can check this from vBond CLI also by following command.

There is another command which shows same kind of output in vManage and vSmart which is "show control valid-vedges"