New Training: Configure and Verify Certificates

In this 7-video skill, CBT Nuggets trainer Keith Barker demonstrates how to use certificates and lists of expected vEdges as part of onboarding new devices. Watch this new networking training.

Watch the full course: Cisco CCNP Implementing Cisco SD-WAN Solutions

This training includes:

• 7 videos

• 28 minutes of training

You’ll learn these topics in this skill:

• Introduction to Certificates

• Certificates Overview

• Enable an Enterprise Root Certificate

• Create Signed Certs for Controller Network

• Install Signed Certs on Controller Network

• Add Tunneling and Verify Certs

• Summary

Managing Certificates For vEdge Devices With vManage

Managing security certificates for vEdge devices in the software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) is an important task to ensure secure communication between devices in the network. Each vEdge device is required to have a certificate assigned to it to function properly. Let's take a quick look at the overall management functions of these certificates.

Certificates for the SD-WAN devices can be configured and deployed from the vManage dashboard. The vManage dashboard conveniently lists certificates for individual devices as well as the status for those certificates. These configurations can be found on the Controllers Tab in the vManage NMS.

vEdge devices require that their serial numbers are registered to work properly as well. This can also be managed by the vManage NMS. Once the serial numbers are registered, the vManage software can push those configurations out to the proper devices.

To see which certificates are valid, use the Certificates tab in the Configurations tab in the vManage software. This area will show which certificates are valid, invalid, or in the process of being staged.