cEDGE- How to convert your Cisco ISR4k WAN router to a cEdge.

hello and welcome to a z-index forum so in this video I'm going to show you how to convert a regular Cisco IOS router to a Estevan router because if it is a brownfield deployment you must have banned routers who are using traditional I of a sexy image and now if you want to use them as a van s daemon routers you need to convert them that mean you need to run the right software on that so I have the similar requirement so in this video I'm going to do the same so let's see what we need so right now my infra is I have is our 4k which is very popular one of the van well your order the predict use it is you need enough space in the boot flash at least 1.5 gb is recommended check how much space you have and then ROM on version also so I all sexy software Steven software they require a minimum version of Raman will check into the Cisco documentation what is that and and the third thing you need to remember is not all modules are supported with the Steve and software so you need to check product documentation or Cisco documentation and see what modules are supported and if you have any unsupported module in your router please unplug them before you convert them to a seaman loader what we are going to do we are going to download the software I will show you how to download software to download and then simply upload this software to the boot flash and from there on we are going to follow the config guide so I'm not going to reinvent the wheel we will just work it together following the config guide so let's go back to the documentation okay so you can very much bookmark this Cisco Estevan getting started guide and it actually talked about a lot of components but what we are focusing is booting our when router Iser estiven order so software installation and upgrade of iOS exit out supported interface module you can see that these modules are supported on either 4k and on these audiences are supported on a cellphone case so please make sure that you have only supported modules on your router when you start this process before you begin please go to that I'm going I'm not going to read all of it but a few points like I also 4k generally they have four gigabyte of RAM some may have router have AG or indeed am so these are certain recommendation but you have this and will check on our real router what we have what I want to check here is what is the minimum ramen or ramen version so for is our 4000 series at sixteen seven no three our and from then it's like download your software from Cisco website and then upload it to the router good flash it shell itself so these they are doing a CP you can choose whatever you want to do and from there we are going to see what what to do next so let's go back and check what we have in our router ok so this is my is our which I'm going to convert so first of all let me show you version so that you can see what kind of hardware it is and what software it is running right now so you can see that it is running it is is is are 4331 k9 and it while it is running 1611 as a version let's check the boot flash show both flash the iboot flash sorry about them the airboat flash free so I have one point 2 GB free but I'll show you what I have in would flash so basically I have already downloaded the software to save some time here I have already downloaded the software and the software is available or uploaded to the board flash so if it's software loaded I have 1 point 2 GB of on-board space which is a good boot flat space which is good man let's check the ROM own version so how you can check Raman version is so platform and it is going to tell you your ramen version I have 16.9 1 R which is greater than 16.7 so I'm good but in case your ROM one version is less what you can do here can do simply upgrade nor monitor and then good flash so you can upgrade up download the ROM own package park it in the boot flash and simply use a grater or monitor command to upgrade your ROM 1 once you upgrade your normal version then you can follow follow along the process so what else we want to check here is let's take a backup and config backup okay in case you want to divert this is better to take your backup back up taken now what are you going to do we want to follow along with the country guide now because software is already available software download before I start doing this let me simply show you how to how you can download the software and what software do you need so you know the cisco software downloads of define man and see is even choose your product 4000 and you have to download iOS x CSD van software from there you can download whatever software you want based on the 3d strains we are going to run 16 12 3 all right so now download cisco savannah software image the we have done that step to upload it to boot flash I have already done that device is connected to console we are connected to console backup P I have already taken a backup now you have to undo all the boot boot parameter so right now if you want to see Showboat oh my boot variables so my boot variable is set to 16 11 which is regular io6 image what you want to do you want to just go to config and say no loot system system all right and you want to come out of it and write ma'am so basically you are negating all your would put what parameters we are going to verify that one more time show booth you see there is no boot variables board system slash now we are going to add the new boot system so let's see what is my eh name dir would flash so this is my image name what you want to do you want to apply a boot system statement slash board flash code system flash boot flash colon and then simply copy your Estevan image name you're right ma'am one more time and again verify just to make sure that you have the right software all right as a bolt variable you can see okay now what are you going to remove all existing configuration and this is an optional step but I will go ahead and do that anyways it is confirmed okay my config register is already set to - 1 0 - that means it should not go to Raman mode in next reboot I have shown you in when I did the show version but we can verify again config resistor is a - 1 0 - so I don't have to set it good where we have already identified now let's go ahead and simply reload the system so once you reload the system it is going to look at the new SD Van image and try to load itself with the new image the only catch is some time it takes to reboots to boot as a Stephen CAG router and the first it will actually load the software and in second it will load as divine related parameter and do the cleanup so two reboots may be required some time so let's see what happened in our case so I'm going to pause the video here and come back once the router has booted all right my device is back after reload let's look at the reload log now so what happened when we first issued the reload you can see here so we were here and we did a righty race and a reload what it did it located 16 12 T and 3 but before loading that image it actually started Rahman um grid so Rahman upgrade I was we were at 16:9 and what happened it actually upgraded the Rahman to 1612 so the Rahman package was combined with the Cisco as divan image and and the upgrade Ramon was upgraded first once nominal is upgraded then it will start loading the image again so the image is loaded now you can see the device is back and all the post test is run and I it has detected all the physical interfaces and everything and it looks like it is sitting for our instructions ok let's see it is trying to do a PNP right now and let's correlate it with this so we have we have done step 12 now 13 let's say some enter here username so it is asking for username you can see which is admin admin if it is sitting at the login prompt admin admin so by default you can change the password at this moment only right so router is sitting in this and what we have to do it is still trying to do PNP let's stop the PNP process and you can see we are offline one of my network module which was not supported it has been taken offline because I didn't unplug it beforehand so that is why it's important that you unplug them you can see PNP is aborted now what we are going to do we are going to do a second set of reload which is a request platform software as demand upgrade confirm there is a little busy P and peer services stopped okay and now let's look at the software info [Music] okay now we are going to issue the second set of reset which is going to clean up all the iOS XC config and boot up the router [Music] let's try to I think we have already stopped out but let me try to do it one more time because it is complaining stopping pnp discovery waiting for PNP cleanup because it is trying to do a PNP that many is trying to read the bootstrap config are trying to reach the DHCP IP address so that it can connect to the V bond and lipcolor controllers a little bit busy B&B discovery about it on CLI input should be fine now okay so the unsupported module is going into offline state and I'm going to issue the final reload console is locked down a little bit because okay okay total space use space that mean it is coming up still reading once we are seeing the output value here I'm going to issue the second set of the load started back explained package running okay still expanding the router package we should give it some time I'm going to pause the video for a moment till the time it stabilizes and then we will issue a second set of command reload ok so I'm back and you can see the logs let's read the logs we copy this command before the shoot the command yeah you have to be really patient and read all the logs what has happened during days so you can see that new admin password the warning which it was giving that divided min password got not set okay and Damon is still reading initial config so what happened you can see here successfully certain you are in password and system state is solid green that means all demons are up so this is a good sign now at this point of time we are good to go ahead and also before that I want to show you show us even software so before that we didn't have any values but now you can see I'm running sixteen twelve two and active is true all this parameter says set time with timestamp and it tells you like what is the total space how much is the use space and what is the available space I will fill the space has fallen back below the threshold that's why you have the word alarm raised but nevermind let's go ahead and issue the secondary load so this is what it is going to do it is going to do all the iOS XE clean up all the demon clean up and the router will come back as a complete SD van C edge router [Music] Nancy doesn't stop engine everything is okay and the note please take a note once you have installed the Steven image it changes to the SD van that means that regular config terminal is not supported to go to config you need to use conflict transaction and as you can this is kind of like one verification that if you can do config transaction that means the devices we are using plays divine image ok downloading to a fresh install to my old image is not supported please read this only the out including to previous existing version of old image so downloading is not supported all right and then following is our when you connect to that so we are not connecting to V manage in this video all we want to do is prepare of net network lament to behave like a CH so initializing the geometry of NVRAM that is it's going to reboot completed install activate package package is installed the locks are very important so keep an eye on log be patient with this the first time when you are converting article that I was sick 0 to 2 hours it exceeds divan a lot of things a lot of packages and ROM on upgrades are a in process so be patient with that and try to follow the logs like when the package is started and when the package is install is completed like if it is complaining that new admin password is not set don't ignore that just wait for it that password is set and system is stayed is solid green and see if you can start getting the values for your SD when software then only go ahead and report this once again it is a good time to pause the video probably there is interesting watching the router reload I'll pause the video now and I'll come back once the router has to be loaded I already voted yes now it is good time to look at the router logs he did this with after second reload so let's look at the logs what happened so it booted with the new software and what is happening here is interfaces started showing up and you can see that one of my subs Lord interface is disabled because this is not supported module and you can see a Steve Allen system in it is done alright you can see not so you see what module inserted okay on line 0 0 is on line these are the interface which will be up we can look into that by directly logging in that and what I want to show you is spa name ES 2 which is not supported on so that will be now 0 2 is supported that that's why the interfaces are online ok so one of this transceiver which is not supported that's gone and I have gotta be ACPI IP address on my management interface now let's login to the router it mean and start using the new password what you said so still it is saying taking admin admin since I have changed that admin password but it didn't come into effect so let's change it again so this is interesting alright so is the man software system is still in his lies initializing what I want to show you is if it is booted with a Steven image so if you do config T okay the command is not supported the command which is supported his config transaction and then you can see so P and P is again it will try to do PNP since we are not doing any PNP I'm going to onboard this device manually I'll show you show you that in next video let's terminate PNP I don't want it to like keep trying to PNP and block us like putting any verification commands please wait do not interrupt okay okay just trail the logs PNP discovery is dubbed discovery field good the admin password is not yet set yet all right okay you can see that new admin power sorry the software is shown here started commit packages and if we try to do conflict transaction one more time service R is still initializing please be ready all demand up so please wait for that and after that we should be able to go into conflict transaction and from there we are good to start configuring the CH router to talk to web teller controllers okay successfully set new admin password and system state solid green or lemon up so you have to be patient here and deduction action and you see we are in console of the router and if you want to see the confit show SD then so hold Estevan related commands start with show as the event unlike IO sexy again they show us the event and in config nothing configured yet any we haven't configured any as divine related parameter but still the default config some of the default config will be shown here and the username and password won't be said so default username is admin password is what you said host name is router I'm not going to change any configures of Nam we will see how with the minimal config we are going to apply minimal configuration and then from we manage it is going to get all the templates and the configuration it is going to in inherit in inherit that from we manage and V smarts so this is the by default config and now our router is ready to go and register so before that we have to do some more minimal configuration and one thing what you would like to capture here is your serial number and product ID at the same time what do you want this is handy when you try to do so V so this is a key you will need certificate serial number I will show you why it is important when we will setup the PNP for the CH routers thank you I know it was a long video but I hope you find it useful and thank you

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Length: 28min 26sec (1706 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 16 2020