Learning SD-WAN with Cisco: Transform Your Existing WAN Into a Cost-effective Network

© Stuart Fordham 2021

S. FordhamLearning SD-WAN with Cisco https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7347-0_13

13. Management and Operations

Stuart Fordham¹  

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Bedfordshire, UK

 

In our penultimate chapter, we are going to look at monitoring through the use of email alerts, logging, SNMP, and setting up maintenance windows, and we will finish by exploring the REST API. We will start with the basic requirements of any good network: alerting and logging.

Email Alerts

To set up email alerts, navigate to Administration ➤ Settings. Scroll down to Email Notifications, and click Edit on the right-hand side.

Set email notifications to be enabled, and enter the details of the SMTP server (either the name or IP address and the port) and the from and reply-to email addresses. ...