I hit numerous errors with this but most of these errors were around pacakges not being installed in WSL. The prompted help did not help but googling the errors methoically eventually got me past this. I also downloaded the SDWAN ISO for CML and had some fun getting the initial setup to work but finally it is deploying the lab. I wish I had known it was going to be this tricky as I would have recorded it. Thank you for providing tools to enable us to deploy SDWAN from Cisco. The last set of tools I used were from TH-camrs so its nice to see something coming from the Blue ship.
So just to add, if your deployment is stuck on Waiting for SD-WAN Manager API - pop into the VLAN you are using in VMWARE and within security enable Promiscuous. I actually ticked all three to enable. The other gotcha is, if you are like me you rush before you can crawl and common sense is lost on you (like me) ... Ensure your IP address for your manager is routable, I put it in the same subnet once I realised it has to be live to carry on the with the script.
Is this possible to add a cEdge to the Catalyst vManage in CML, Like CSR1000v ? sdwan-lab add or csdwan add 1 edge only adds catalyst 8Kv node in my lab. I wanted to practice with CSR1000v. May cli syntax are different....
Right now you can add CSR1k manually. Not via SD-WAN Lab Tool automation. I would recommend using C8kv. The difference between C8kv and CSR1k are not big, in fact, we use the same code base and renamed it. You can also upgrade CSR1k to C8kv. So, it was not much difference in the past and the benefit of using C8kv now is all new features introduced recently. And I am not aware of any use case, which is possible with CSR1k and not possible with C8kv.
Error "Waiting for SD-WAN Manager API (attempt 49)..." I waited for a log time after that. logged into vManage via CLI. I have noticed that "show running-config" on vManage does not have any interface or IP mentioned. Tried twice, stuck at the same place. I am using version 20.7.1 . BTW - I could not find any sd-wan image in the supplied image repository "refplat_p-20240623-fcs-iso". How do I get the latest images ?
The refplat-20240322-supplemental-iso.zip that is available under 2.7.0 release has the SD-WAN images included. Which SD-WAN software version did you use? The IP addresses should be auto configured by the script based on the input variables you provide.
@@TomaszZarski thanks! got the image now. But there is another issue. When I run the lab on my ESXi 8 based server, external connectivity does not work properly. If bridged, vManage is not reachable. If NAT (virbr0) is used, vManage can reach external IP addresses via vpn512, but from external IP of my home network I can not reach vManage. However this issue does not exist if I start the lab on my laptop with Vmware Workstation. Is there any ESXi specific tuning required to get the external connectivity working. My laptop does not have capacity run the lab. My ESXi network is very basic. One external connection and VMs are all connected to the same vSwitch with default settings. No tagging/trunking anywhere in uplink or downlinks.
@@CiscoSDWANandCloudNetworking I receive following error while trying to add a cEdge using advised command. Do I need to procure license? Error: "Preparing add task...Cannot onboard 1 WAN Edges as there are only 0 unused UUIDs available."
it was due to internet connectivity, i guess. But, csdwan add 1 edge only adds a cat 8000v edge. I need a cEdge catalyst syntax is different than cEdge. Many commands does not work
Everything went fairly smooth until the deploy at the end, I get stuck with the following error: Waiting for SD-WAN Manager API (attempt 119)...Failed to login to SD-WAN Manager after 60 minutes. Everything else seems to be fine, the linux box I'm deploying from can obviously talk to cml as it built out the lab, but it seems that it cant connect to the manager? I am able to reach it from the same box via HTTPS, but when I login to the manager everything is just defaulted and it sees no other devices. Any advice?
This means the script was unable to login to SD-WAN Manager over HTTPS. Please verify reachability and rerun the tool with “-- retry” option. It should attempt to connect again to SD-WAN Manager and if it’s successful, it will continue the onboarding. If you will still face problems, feel free to contact us using e-mail in the video description.
@@TomaszZarski Looks like the --retry option worked, not sure if it mattered, but I first logged into the manager via https in the browser, then went back and used the script again and it connected without issue.
Hi I a new ubuntu desktop for this, following the steps I got the folloing error when running: pip install --upgrade catalyst-sdwan-lab I tried to install pyats 23.11 but I wan't able as well. INFO: pip is looking at multiple versions of catalyst-sdwan-lab to determine which version is compatible with other requirements. This could take a while. Collecting catalyst-sdwan-lab Using cached catalyst_sdwan_lab-2.0.8-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (20 kB) Using cached catalyst_sdwan_lab-2.0.7-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (20 kB) Using cached catalyst_sdwan_lab-2.0.6-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (20 kB) ERROR: Cannot install catalyst-sdwan-lab==2.0.6, catalyst-sdwan-lab==2.0.7, catalyst-sdwan-lab==2.0.8 and catalyst-sdwan-lab==2.0.9 because these package versions have conflicting dependencies. The conflict is caused by: catalyst-sdwan-lab 2.0.9 depends on pyats=23.1 catalyst-sdwan-lab 2.0.8 depends on pyats=23.1 catalyst-sdwan-lab 2.0.7 depends on pyats=23.1 catalyst-sdwan-lab 2.0.6 depends on pyats=23.1 To fix this you could try to: 1. loosen the range of package versions you've specified 2. remove package versions to allow pip attempt to solve the dependency conflict ERROR: ResolutionImpossible: for help visit pip.pypa.io/en/latest/topics/dependency-resolution/#dealing-with-dependency-conflicts
Windows is not natively supported, the only way to run the tool on Windows is by using either Linux on Windows with WSL or a linux VM or container. You can read more here: github.com/cisco-open/sdwan-lab-deployment-tool/blob/dev-2.0.10/README.md
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I hit numerous errors with this but most of these errors were around pacakges not being installed in WSL. The prompted help did not help but googling the errors methoically eventually got me past this. I also downloaded the SDWAN ISO for CML and had some fun getting the initial setup to work but finally it is deploying the lab. I wish I had known it was going to be this tricky as I would have recorded it. Thank you for providing tools to enable us to deploy SDWAN from Cisco. The last set of tools I used were from TH-camrs so its nice to see something coming from the Blue ship.
So just to add, if your deployment is stuck on Waiting for SD-WAN Manager API - pop into the VLAN you are using in VMWARE and within security enable Promiscuous. I actually ticked all three to enable. The other gotcha is, if you are like me you rush before you can crawl and common sense is lost on you (like me) ... Ensure your IP address for your manager is routable, I put it in the same subnet once I realised it has to be live to carry on the with the script.
Game changer. Kudos Cisco for this
Is this possible to add a cEdge to the Catalyst vManage in CML, Like CSR1000v ? sdwan-lab add or csdwan add 1 edge only adds catalyst 8Kv node in my lab. I wanted to practice with CSR1000v. May cli syntax are different....
Right now you can add CSR1k manually. Not via SD-WAN Lab Tool automation. I would recommend using C8kv. The difference between C8kv and CSR1k are not big, in fact, we use the same code base and renamed it. You can also upgrade CSR1k to C8kv. So, it was not much difference in the past and the benefit of using C8kv now is all new features introduced recently. And I am not aware of any use case, which is possible with CSR1k and not possible with C8kv.
Error "Waiting for SD-WAN Manager API (attempt 49)..." I waited for a log time after that. logged into vManage via CLI. I have noticed that "show running-config" on vManage does not have any interface or IP mentioned. Tried twice, stuck at the same place. I am using version 20.7.1 . BTW - I could not find any sd-wan image in the supplied image repository "refplat_p-20240623-fcs-iso". How do I get the latest images ?
The refplat-20240322-supplemental-iso.zip that is available under 2.7.0 release has the SD-WAN images included. Which SD-WAN software version did you use? The IP addresses should be auto configured by the script based on the input variables you provide.
@@TomaszZarski thanks! got the image now. But there is another issue. When I run the lab on my ESXi 8 based server, external connectivity does not work properly. If bridged, vManage is not reachable. If NAT (virbr0) is used, vManage can reach external IP addresses via vpn512, but from external IP of my home network I can not reach vManage. However this issue does not exist if I start the lab on my laptop with Vmware Workstation. Is there any ESXi specific tuning required to get the external connectivity working. My laptop does not have capacity run the lab. My ESXi network is very basic. One external connection and VMs are all connected to the same vSwitch with default settings. No tagging/trunking anywhere in uplink or downlinks.
Is this possible to add a cEdge to the Catalyst vManage in CML, Like CSR1000v ?
Yes, use the csdwan add 1 edge
@@CiscoSDWANandCloudNetworking I receive following error while trying to add a cEdge using advised command. Do I need to procure license? Error: "Preparing add task...Cannot onboard 1 WAN Edges as there are only 0 unused UUIDs available."
it was due to internet connectivity, i guess. But, csdwan add 1 edge only adds a cat 8000v edge. I need a cEdge catalyst syntax is different than cEdge. Many commands does not work
Everything went fairly smooth until the deploy at the end, I get stuck with the following error:
Waiting for SD-WAN Manager API (attempt 119)...Failed to login to SD-WAN Manager after 60 minutes.
Everything else seems to be fine, the linux box I'm deploying from can obviously talk to cml as it built out the lab, but it seems that it cant connect to the manager? I am able to reach it from the same box via HTTPS, but when I login to the manager everything is just defaulted and it sees no other devices.
Any advice?
This means the script was unable to login to SD-WAN Manager over HTTPS. Please verify reachability and rerun the tool with “-- retry” option. It should attempt to connect again to SD-WAN Manager and if it’s successful, it will continue the onboarding. If you will still face problems, feel free to contact us using e-mail in the video description.
@@TomaszZarski Looks like the --retry option worked, not sure if it mattered, but I first logged into the manager via https in the browser, then went back and used the script again and it connected without issue.
Hi I a new ubuntu desktop for this, following the steps I got the folloing error when running: pip install --upgrade catalyst-sdwan-lab
I tried to install pyats 23.11 but I wan't able as well.
INFO: pip is looking at multiple versions of catalyst-sdwan-lab to determine which version is compatible with other requirements. This could take a while.
Collecting catalyst-sdwan-lab
Using cached catalyst_sdwan_lab-2.0.8-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (20 kB)
Using cached catalyst_sdwan_lab-2.0.7-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (20 kB)
Using cached catalyst_sdwan_lab-2.0.6-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (20 kB)
ERROR: Cannot install catalyst-sdwan-lab==2.0.6, catalyst-sdwan-lab==2.0.7, catalyst-sdwan-lab==2.0.8 and catalyst-sdwan-lab==2.0.9 because these package versions have conflicting dependencies.
The conflict is caused by:
catalyst-sdwan-lab 2.0.9 depends on pyats=23.1
catalyst-sdwan-lab 2.0.8 depends on pyats=23.1
catalyst-sdwan-lab 2.0.7 depends on pyats=23.1
catalyst-sdwan-lab 2.0.6 depends on pyats=23.1
To fix this you could try to:
1. loosen the range of package versions you've specified
2. remove package versions to allow pip attempt to solve the dependency conflict
ERROR: ResolutionImpossible: for help visit pip.pypa.io/en/latest/topics/dependency-resolution/#dealing-with-dependency-conflicts
for anyone who may need it.
I had to install python3.11 (I had 3.12), and manually install pyats23.11.
then it started working.
@@arielgustavoherediaoliva8465 we've just released version 2.0.10 with python3.12 support!
If I'm using CML 2.7, will it take care of the licenses as well?
Before using the tool, you need to make sure your CML server is already licensed.
@@TomaszZarski yes It is!. I was asking about the SD wan licenses here.
@@arielgustavoherediaoliva8465 You will be able to use c8kv without need to bring your own SD-WAN license. 🙂
Yes the tool will take care of all steps required for SD-WAN onboarding.
@@TomaszZarski thanks!
Please make a seperate video for windows OS because it is not working for me
Please drop an email to cml-sdwan-lab-tool@external.cisco.com and provide a screen shot or an error message, which you face. Thanks!
Windows is not natively supported, the only way to run the tool on Windows is by using either Linux on Windows with WSL or a linux VM or container.
You can read more here: github.com/cisco-open/sdwan-lab-deployment-tool/blob/dev-2.0.10/README.md
Finally!
Thanks! Please let us know how it works! 🙂