• Nexus Dashboard
  • USER: admin
  • PASS: cisco.123
  • ND Web interface
  • DEV Server
  • USER: cisco
  • PASS: cisco.123
  • ssh address: 10.0.208.13
  • VNC address: 10.0.208.13:5901
  • Switch Login
  • USER: admin
  • PASS: cisco.123
  • Site1-S1: 10.3.3.11
  • Site1-S2: 10.3.3.12
  • Site1-L1: 10.3.3.13
  • Site1-L2: 10.3.3.14
  • Site1-BL1: 10.3.3.15
  • Site1-BGW1: 10.3.3.16
  • Site2-S1: 10.3.3.17
  • Site2-L1: 10.3.3.18
  • Site2-BGW1: 10.3.3.19
  • Ext-Rtr: 10.3.3.10
  • Core-Rtr: 10.3.3.20
Add Switch
NDFC

With your External Layer3 fabric created, you can import your external device for management by NDFC. Connected to your Site1-BL1 switch is another Nexus 9300v as your external device. Because it is a Nexus 9000 series device, it can be fully managed by NDFC.

Step 1 - Launch Add Switches to Fabric Wizard

Your Switches table is empty at the moment. To populate it with the switch in your ExtL3 fabric:

  1. Click Switches in the top navigation bar
  2. Click Actions
  3. Click Add Switches in the dropdown

Step 2 - Populate Seed Switch Details

The Add Switches wizard needs some information to automaticaly be able to discover and add your external device for management by NDFC.

  1. Set the Seed IP to 10.3.3.10
  2. Leave the Authentication Protocol set to MD5
  3. Leave the Device Type set to NX-OS
  4. Set the Username to admin
  5. Set the Password to cisco.123
  6. Set Max Hops to 0
  7. Click Discover Switches in the bottom right

Step 3 - Add Switches

Only one device is expected to be discovered for your external fabric in this lab; a device with the hostname Ext-Rtr.

  1. Click the checkbox beside the Switch Name column heading to select all
  2. Click Add Switches in the bottom right

    3. The import progress will start:

Step 4 - Confirm Switch Added & Exit Add Switches Wizard

The import process should be successful and the Status show Switch Added. The Progress column should show the progress bar as fully green, i.e. progress complete and successful. If you see anything different than the screenshot below, plesae notify a lab instructor.

  1. Once the switch shows added, click the Close button in the bottom right

Step 5 - Review External Router

Upon exiting the Add Switches wizard, you will be redirected back the Switches overview. You should now see your external device imported with the Config Status as showing Out-of-Sync. This is expected at the moment until you perform the Recalculate and Deploy, but first switch roles need to be set.



Continue to the next section to set the appropriate switch role for your external device in your ExtL3 fabric.