• Nexus Dashboard
  • USER: admin
  • PASS: cisco.123
  • ND-1 Web Interface
  • ND-2 Web Interface
  • DEV Server
  • USER: cisco
  • PASS: cisco.123
  • ssh address: 10.0.208.32
  • VNC address: 10.0.208.32:5901
  • Switch Login
  • USER: admin
  • PASS: cisco.123
  • Site1-S1: 10.3.22.11
  • Site1-S2: 10.3.22.12
  • Site1-L1: 10.3.22.13
  • Site1-L2: 10.3.22.14
  • Site1-BL1: 10.3.22.15
  • Site1-BGW1: 10.3.22.16
  • Site2-S1: 10.3.22.17
  • Site2-L1: 10.3.22.18
  • Site2-BGW1: 10.3.22.19
  • Ext-Rtr: 10.3.22.10
  • Core-Rtr: 10.3.22.20
Add Switch

Nexus Dashboard

Add External Router

Import and manage external routing devices to extend your VXLAN fabric connectivity.

External Device Discovery

Add external routers (like Ext-Rtr) to your External Fabric for automated management and configuration by Nexus Dashboard, enabling seamless integration with your VXLAN environment.

VRF Lite Configuration

External routers provide VRF Lite connectivity between your VXLAN fabric and external networks, with automated configuration ensuring proper routing and network segmentation.

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 Inventory 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 Nexus Dashboard.

  1. Set the Seed IP to 10.3.22.10
  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.