Activate Analytics for an Existing Edge

VMware SD-WAN Orchestrator allows the Administrator (Enterprise or Partner) to activate Analytics on an existing SD-WAN Edge.

To activate Analytics on an existing SD-WAN Edge, perform the following steps.

Prerequisites

Ensure that all the necessary system properties to activate Analytics are properly set in the SD-WAN Orchestrator. For more information, contact your Operator Super User.
Ensure that the Analytics functionality is activated for the Customer associated with the Edge.
The SD-WAN Orchestrator must be on 5.0.1.0 and the SD-WAN Edges must be running a minimum of 4.3.1 code. You can review the software image installed on each edge by navigating to Configure > Edges. The table on the Edges page will have a column that displays Software version of Edge per customer.
If the Edge is using the 4.2 release, ensure the Edge has a LAN interface that is up and advertised or use the special MGMT-IP software build, otherwise the Edge will not be able to send metrics to the ENI backend.

Procedure

In the Enterprise portal, navigate to Manage Customers.
Select a customer and then go to Configure > Edges.
The Edges screen appears.
Click the Edge name to activate Analytics.
In Edge Overview tab, from the Analytics drop-down menu, select one of the following Analytics modes for the Edge:
- Application Analytics - Gains access to fault isolation and Application-specific Analytics.
- Application and Branch Analytics - Gains access to Application-specific Analytics and Branch Analytics.
- By default, None is selected.
Click Save Changes.

Results

An Analytic Edge is provisioned for the selected customer. Once the Edge is provisioned, the Analytics functionality collects data, performs deep packet inspection of all traffic, identifies network application and correlates traffic with user information.

What to do next

To send the collected analytics data to the Cloud Analytics Engine, you must configure an Analytics interface on which the Edge transmits Analytics data.