Generating an URL with basic CPE device settings
If you are automatically registering a CPE device, you need to generate a URL with basic device settings. You can specify the template of the generated URL when configuring the connection of the CPE device to the orchestrator and Controller. The generated URL contains the following information:
- Network interfaces
- Settings for connecting the CPE device to the orchestrator and Controller and SD-WAN interfaces.
- Certificates
- BGP settings
- The token if two-factor authentication is being used
- Virtual routing and forwarding tables.
The maximum size of a URL with basic CPE device settings may not exceed 64 KB.
To generate a URL with basic CPE device settings:
- In the menu, go to the SD-WAN → CPE section.
A table of CPE devices is displayed.
- Click the CPE device for which you want to generate a URL with basic settings.
The settings area is displayed in the lower part of the page. You can expand the settings area to fill the entire page by clicking the expand icon
. By default, the Configuration tab is selected, which displays general information about the CPE device. This tab also displays the table of Out-of-band management tasks being performed by the orchestrator. - In the upper part of the settings area, under Actions, click Get activation URL.
This opens a window with the basic CPE device settings URL.
- Save the URL with basic CPE device settings in one of the following ways:
- If you want to copy the URL, click Copy next to it.
- If you want to save the URL as an HTML file, click Save to HTML next to it.
You need to visit the URL or open the HTML file on the CPE device that you want to automatically register.
- If you want to install certificates on a CPE device with firmware version 23.07:
- In the Version drop-down list, select 23.07.
- Click Copy next to all generated URLs.
- Save the copied web addresses.
You need to visit all of the copied web addresses in sequence on the CPE device where you want to install certificates.
