Network Insight allows you to collect and manage data from SDN and SD-WAN environments. Currently, you can discover Cisco ACI, Cisco Meraki, Cisco Viptela, and Juniper Mist. For information about adding, configuring, discovering data, and configuring polling settings for these devices, see:

You can add specific SDN and SD-WAN entries in the discovery properties of Probe or Standalone members. You cannot configure these settings on Consolidators. Also, you can configure general SDN and SD-WAN polling properties in the Grid discovery settings.

To view discovery results for SDN and SD-WAN, go to Data Management > Devices. For information, see Viewing Discovered Devices and their Properties.

Cisco Network Solutions

You can add, configure, and discover data for the following Cisco solutions: Cisco ACI, Cisco Meraki, Cisco Viptela.

Adding and Configuring Cisco ACI Discovery

Enabling the discovery of Cisco ACI devices provides visibility into your Cisco ACI infrastructure. This allows you to view and manage discovered IP addresses of Cisco ACI fabric members such as APIC controllers and fabric switches with their attached end points.

To add and configure a Cisco ACI fabric, complete the following:

1. From the Grid tab, select the Grid Manager tab, and then click Discovery.

2. Select a Probe member, and then click Edit > Member Discovery Properties in the Toolbar.

3. Click the SDN/SD-WAN tab.

4. Click the Add icon and select Cisco ACI.

5. Complete the following:

   • Fabric Name: Specify a short and unique name for the current Cisco ACI configuration.

   • Addresses: Enter the hostname or IP address of the Cisco APIC controller. If your fabric includes more than one controller, click the Add icon to add more addresses.

   • Protocol: Select HTTP or HTTPS.

   • Network View: Select the network view to identify the corresponding network interface for connectivity with the Cisco ACI. Also, this network view will be assigned to discovered devices from this ACI.

   • Username: The login name for the Cisco ACI.

   • Password: The login password.

   • Comment: Additional information about the Cisco ACI.

   • Connect using Grid Proxy settings if available: Select if you want to use the Grid Proxy for connectivity to or from the Cisco ACI. If the Proxy is specified in the Grid properties, then Network Insight uses it. For more information, see Configuring Proxy Servers.

6. Click Test Connection to check if the fabric is reachable and the provided credentials are correct. The connection test results are also written to syslog.

7. Click Add.

8. Click Save & Close.

Adding and Configuring Cisco Meraki Discovery

Enabling the discovery of Cisco Meraki provides visibility into your Cisco Meraki SD-WAN elements, for example:

• Wireless access points

• Switches

• Routers

• Cameras

• Phones

Network Insight classifies Meraki cameras and phones as end hosts and other Meraki devices as network devices.

To add and configure Cisco Meraki discovery, complete the following:

1. From the Grid tab, select the Grid Manager tab, and then click Discovery.

2. Select a Probe member, and then click Edit > Member Discovery Properties in the Toolbar.

3. Click the SDN/SD-WAN tab.

4. Click the Add icon and select Cisco Meraki.

5. Complete the following:

   • Config Name: Specify a short and unique name for the current Cisco Meraki configuration.

   • Address: Enter the hostname or IP address of the Cisco Meraki Dashboard API. By default, it is api.meraki.com.

   • Protocol: HTTPS by default.

   • Network Interface: Select the interface that will be used to access the device.

   • API Key: An access key is required to use Cisco APIs.

   • Comment: Additional information about the Cisco Meraki device.

   • Connect using Grid Proxy settings if available: Select if you want to use the Grid Proxy for connectivity to or from the Cisco Meraki device. If the Proxy is specified in the Grid properties, then Network Insight uses it. For more information, see Configuring Proxy Servers.

6. Click Test Connection to check if the device is reachable and the provided credentials are correct. The connection test results are also written to the syslog.

7. Click Add.

8. Click Save & Close.

Adding and Configuring Cisco Viptela Discovery

Enabling the discovery of Cisco Viptela devices provides visibility into your Viptela SDN/SD-WAN infrastructure. You can use Viptela as an on-premises SDN controller or as a cloud solution.

To add and configure Cisco Viptela discovery, complete the following:

1. From the Grid tab, select the Grid Manager tab, and then click Discovery.

2. Select a Probe member, and then click Edit > Member Discovery Properties in the Toolbar.

3. Click the SDN/SD-WAN tab.

4. Click the Add icon and select Viptela.

5. Complete the following:

   • Config Name: Specify a short and unique name for the current Viptela configuration.

   • Address: Enter the hostname or IP address of the Viptela vManage controller.

   • On-premise controller: Check this if your Viptela setup is on-premises.

   • Protocol: Select HTTP or HTTPS.

   • Network Interface: Select the interface that will be used to access the device.

   • Network View: Select the network view in which the discovered Viptela devices will be shown.

   • Username: The login name for the Viptela vManage controller.

   • Password: The login password.

   • Comment: Additional information about the Viptela vManage controller.

   • Connect using Grid Proxy settings if available: Select if you want to use the Grid Proxy for connectivity to or from the Viptela. If the Proxy is specified in the Grid properties, Network Insight uses it.

6. Click Test Connection to check if the device is reachable and the provided credentials are correct. The connection test results are also written to syslog.

7. Click Add.

8. Click Save & Close.

Juniper Mist Network Solutions

Enabling the discovery of Juniper Mist provides visibility into your Juniper Mist SD-WAN elements, for example:

• Wireless access points

• Switches

• Routers

• Firewalls

To add and configure Juniper Mist discovery, do the following:

1. From the Grid tab, select the Grid Manager tab, and then click Discovery. The Grid Manager tab will be automatically chosen as the default selection.

2. Under the Services tab, select a Probe member. The Edit icon becomes active when you select the Probe member.

3. Click the Edit icon.

4. Click the SDN/SD-WAN tab from the left navigation pane.

5. Click the drop-down next to the Add icon.

6. Select Juniper Mist. The Add Juniper Mist Configuration page will be displayed.

7. Complete the following:

   • Config Name: Specify a short and unique name for the current Juniper Mist configuration.

   • Address: Enter the hostname or IP address of the Juniper Mist Dashboard API. By default, it is api.mist.com.

   • Protocol: This field is populated as HTTPS automatically and is not editable.

   • Network Interface: Select the interface for accessing the device.

   • API Key: An access key required to use Juniper Mist APIs.

   • Comment: Additional information about the Juniper Mist device.

   • Connect using Grid Proxy settings if available: Select if you want to use the Grid Proxy for connectivity to or from the Juniper Mist device. If the Proxy is specified in the Grid properties, then Network Insight uses it. For more information, see Configuring Proxy Servers.

8. Click Test Connection to check if the device is reachable and the provided credentials are correct. The connection test results are also logged to syslog.

9. Click Add.

10. Click Save & Close.

Adding and Configuring Silver Peak SDN

Enabling the discovery of Silver Peak SDN provides visibility into your Silver Peak SD-WAN elements.

To add and configure Silver Peak SDN, complete the following:

1. From the Grid tab, select the Grid Manager tab, and then click Discovery.

2. Select a Probe member, and then click Edit > Member Discovery Properties in the Toolbar.

3. Click the SDN/SD-WAN tab.

4. Click the Add icon and select Silver Peak.

5. Complete the following:

   • Config Name: Specify a short and unique name for the current Silver Peak configuration.

   • Addresses: Enter the hostname or IP address of the Silver Peak SDN.

   • Protocol: The Protocol will be HTTPS by default.

   • Network Interface: Choose the Network Interface that will be used to access the device

   • Network View: Select the network view to identify the corresponding network interface for connectivity with the Silver Peak SDN. Also, this network view will be assigned to discovered devices from this SDN.

   • API Key: An access key is required to use Silver Peak APIs.

   • Comment: Additional information about the Silver Peak device.

   • Connect using Grid Proxy settings if available: Select if you want to use the Grid Proxy Server for connectivity to or from the Silver Peak device. If the Proxy is specified in the Grid properties, then Network Insight uses it. For more information, see Configuring Proxy Servers.

6. Click Test Connection to check if the device is reachable and the provided credentials are correct. The connection test results are also written to the syslog.

7. Click Add.

8. Click Save & Close.

Configuring SDN and SD-WAN Polling Properties

The following devices are supported for SDN and SD-WAN polling settings:

• Cisco ACI

• Cisco Meraki

• Cisco Viptela

• Juniper Mist

• Silver Peak SDN

On the Grid side, you can enable or disable the SDN and SD-WAN polling, specify end host collection timing, and define network view mapping rules. If SDN and SD-WAN polling is disabled, only traditional network devices are polled. Controlling the polling setting and end host data collection allows you to reduce the load on your system if required.

For the supported devices, you can select between different modes for mapping networks to NIOS network views. This mapping mechanism is required as your defined device infrastructure may have overlapping IP ranges that can be supported under different network views. The mapping rules include:

• Mapping to the predefined SDN network view

• Automatic mapping

• Custom mapping

To configure SDN/SD-WAN polling properties, complete the following:

1. From the Grid tab, select the Grid Manager tab, and then click Discovery.

2. From the Toolbar, select Edit > Grid Discovery Properties.

3. Click the SDN/SD-WAN tab.

4. On the Basic tab, complete the following:

   • Enable SDN/SD-WAN polling: Select to enable or disable SDN and SD-WAN polling.

   • Default SDN Network View: The network view that will be assigned to discovered Cisco Meraki devices for which the automatic network view mapping is disabled. You enable or disable automatic mapping in the advanced SDN and SD-WAN polling settings. For more information, see step 5 below.

   • Detailed End Host Collection Interval: Select to enable or disable the collection of end hosts (or clients in Cisco Meraki terminology). If enabled, specify one of the following:

     • Periodic Collection: Specify the N minutes or hours when the collection should occur.

     • Scheduled Collection: Schedule recurrent collection based on hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly time periods. Choosing this option, click the Calendar icon, and a Polling Scheduler appears; click the Edit icon to make scheduling changes. Choose a recurrence pattern of Once, Hourly, Daily, Weekly, or Monthly; in all cases, you must choose an Execution Time.

5. On the Advanced tab, complete the following:

   • Disable SDN/SD-WAN Discovery for networks not in IPAM: If set, new unmanaged networks discovered on the SDN controller are not created in the Infoblox IPAM.

   • Network View Mapping: Select one of the following:

     • Disable automatic mapping and use predefined SDN Network View: Select to map the collected SDN/SD-WAN devices to the default SDN network view defined in step 4 above.

     • Automatically create network views for unmapped networks: Select to automatically map collected networks to their network views using Network Insight’s internal rules. Network views that do not exist are created automatically. The mapped networks are displayed in the table that is not editable.

     • Enable network view mapping defined below: This is custom mapping. Select to manually map the collected networks to appropriate network views. To change a network view entry, click it in the table.

6. Click Save & Close.