SD-Access Fabric
An SD-Access Fabric is a logical group of devices that is managed as a single entity in one or multiple locations.
Add a Fabric Site
Before you begin
You can create a new fabric site only if IP Device Tracking (IPDT) is already configured for the site. This means that you should have enabled Monitor wired clients while configuring Telemetry settings for the site.
Procedure
Step 1 |
. |
Step 2 |
In the Fabric Sites tab, click Add fabric site. Alternatively, instead of the first two steps, in the Cisco DNA Center GUI, click the Menu icon and choose . Follow the workflow wizard. |
Step 3 |
In the Create a Fabric Site window, click Let’s Do it. |
Step 4 |
Select an area, building, or floor to add as a fabric site and click Next. |
Step 5 |
(Optional) To designate fabric zones and create scoped subnets, select Yes Setup Zones. To enable a fabric zone, select a fabric site from the network hierarchy displayed. |
Step 6 |
Click Next. |
Step 7 |
Review the fabric site settings on the Summary window. You can edit any of the fabric site or zone settings here. |
Step 8 |
Click Create. |
Add a Device to a Fabric
After you have created a fabric site, you can add devices to the fabric site. You can also specify whether the device should act as a control plane node, an edge node, or a border node.
You can add a new device to the fabric site only if IP Device Tracking (IPDT) is configured for the fabric site.
A device which is assigned the Access role and has been provisioned before enabling IPDT on the site can’t be added to the fabric. Reprovision such devices before adding them to the fabric site. Check the Provision workflow to confirm the status of Deployment of IPDT on the device.
Note |
|
Before you begin
Provision the device if you haven’t already provisioned it:
-
Click the menu icon () and choose .
-
The
window displays the discovered devices. -
The topology view shows a device in gray color if it has passed the fabric readiness checks and is ready to be provisioned.
-
If an error is detected during any of the fabric readiness checks, an error notification is displayed on the topology area. Click See more details to check the problem area listed in the resulting window. Correct the problem and click Re-check to ensure that the problem is resolved.
-
If you update the device configuration as part of problem resolution, ensure that you resynchronize the device information by performing an
for the device.
Note |
You can continue to provision a device that has failed the fabric readiness checks. |
Procedure
Step 1 |
Click the menu icon () and choose under SD ACCESS. |
||||||||
Step 2 |
Select the fabric site to add a device. The resulting topology view displays all devices in the network that have been inventoried. In the topology view, any device that is added to the fabric is shown in blue. |
||||||||
Step 3 |
Click a device. A slide-in pane displays the following Fabric options:
To configure a device as a fabric-in-a-box, select the Control Plane, Border, and Edge options. To configure the device as a control plane and a border node, select both Control Plane and Border. |
||||||||
Step 4 |
Click Add. |
What to do next
After a device is added to the fabric, fabric compliance checks are automatically performed to ensure that the device is fabric-compliant. The topology displays a device that has failed the fabric compliance check in blue color with a cross-mark beside it. Click See more details on the error notification to identify the problem area and correct it.