After completing the provisioning updates in Site1 for your border leaf, you must return to your External Fabric to trigger automated configuring of your Ext-Rtr.

Step 1 - Exit Site1 Fabric

1. In the top right corner, click the to close your Site1 fabric

Step 2 - Navigate Back to ExtL3 Fabric

Navigate back to your ExtL3 fabric:

1. In the Fabrics pane, double click on your ExtL3 fabric

Step 3 - ExtL3 Configuration

With the actions you took in your Site1 fabric, take note that your ExtL3 fabric now has Pending configuration. This is part of the automation enabled between the fabrics and switch types to enable and configure external connectivity for the VXLAN EVPN fabric when the external device is also managed by Nexus Dashboard. It now comes down to the user to trigger the deployment.

1. Click Inventory in the top navigation bar
2. Click Switches
3. Double Click Ext-Rtr

Step 4 - Switch Overview - Ext-Rtr

This page will provide you with specific information on your ExtRtr switch such as Management IP, Software Version, etc, but more importantly you will notice the Config Status showing as Pending. Now, we will Deploy the configuration to the device.

1. Click Actions
2. Click Deploy

Step 5 - View Pending Configuration for Exr-Rtr

The configuration deployment to your external device is relatively small and includes the sub-interface configuration mentioned before:

1. Click Deploy All

Step 6 - Exit Deploy Configuration for Ext-Rtr

Upon a successful deployment, Nexus Dashboard's Deploy Configuration wizard should look as shown in the screenshot below; all green with SUCCESS messages and each switch's expected configuration progress bar also displaying as green and fully executed. If any error occurred, Nexus Dashboard will display a notification and the status reverted back to Out-of-Sync.

1. After done reviewing the deployment progress, click Close in the bottom right

Step 7 - Review Switches Overview

Back at the main Switches overview, your Ext-Rtr should display a Config Status of In-Sync. You may need to hit the Refresh button, if the Config Status has not been updated.

Continue to the next section to create a Loopback interface on your external router that will advertised into BGP in the next sections of the lab.