HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD-WAN

Enable SD-WAN monitoring on your HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD-WAN to view orchestrator information and use alerts and reports relevant for SD-WAN monitoring.

If you are upgrading from a previous version, be aware that in EdgeConnect Orchestrator version 9.3, all HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect Orchestrator REST API endpoint definitions changed. See the NPM 2024.2 release notes for more information. Aruba EdgeConnect was formerly branded as Silver Peak.

Monitor EdgeConnect SD-WAN edge devices

Add edge devices managed by a monitored orchestrator to get further details through the API.

You can view the following information for edge devices:

• General details, such as edge device name, model, serial number, status, or type

• All IP addresses for a specific device, enabling accurate matching of IPs received in NetFlow data

• Uplinks (WAN interfaces)

• VPN tunnels - the list of tunnels, their status, and further statistics

  VPN tunnel naming

  {Source Interface Name} → {Peer System IP / Device ID}:{Peer Interface IP}

Monitor EdgeConnect SD-WAN orchestrators

You can view the following orchestrator information:

• Status and response time, polled via REST (HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD-WAN APIs).

• A list of all devices managed by the orchestrator. You can add these in a simplified discovery as API-only nodes.

Aruba SD-WAN setup and monitoring steps

Monitored properties

SD-WAN metrics are polled via API from the HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD-WAN orchestrator. Collected data includes:

• Orchestrator Inventory and Status
• General Edge device Info
• Edge device uplinks (WAN interfaces)
• VPN tunnels​

Interface polling

• Status
• Rediscovery
• Statistics

For details, see Monitor SD-WAN interfaces.

Rate limits

An HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD-WAN orchestrator is limited to 250 requests/5 seconds for a polling engine. For details, see HPE Aruba Networking API polling limit was exceeded.

Add SD-WAN devices to SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted

To monitor SD-WAN, add the HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD-WAN orchestrator as a node, and then add edge devices.

Each monitored orchestrator uses a node license.

Add an orchestrator

1. Log in to the SolarWinds Platform Web Console as an administrator.

2. Click Settings > Manage Nodes, and then click Add a Node.

3. In Polling Method, select Orchestrators: API.

4. Under Orchestrators, select Aruba EdgeConnect Devices.

5. Select an authentication method:

   • For API Token, provide the API token.

   • For Username & Password, provide your credentials.

     You need an orchestrator user account with read-only access to get data using Aruba API.

6. Review and adjust the device properties.

   1. Review your credentials and proxy settings.

   2. To edit how often the node status, or monitored statistics are updated, change the values in the Polling area.

      

      For critical nodes, you may need to poll status information or collect statistics more frequently than the default polling intervals.
      

   3. Enter values for custom properties for the node.

      The Custom Properties area is empty if you have not defined any custom properties for monitored nodes. See "Add custom properties to nodes" in the SolarWinds Platform Administrator Guide.

   4. To adjust when the status of the node changes to Warning or Critical, edit alerting thresholds for the metric. Select the Override box and set thresholds for the node.

      

7. Click OK, Add Node.

The added node is now monitored as an SD-WAN orchestrator. Add connected devices to complete the SD-WAN configuration.

Add devices connected to the orchestrator as API-only nodes

1. In SolarWinds Platform Web Console, click Settings > Manage Nodes.

2. On the Manage Nodes view, click the added orchestrator node.

3. On the SD-WAN Orchestrator Details view, click Discover Aruba Devices in the Management widget.

4. Select that you want to monitor Aruba devices as API-only nodes and click Continue. Network Sonar Wizard will be launched automatically.

5. Complete the wizard by clicking Discover on the last tab. The wizard discovers the devices based on Aruba API

6. Discovered devices are listed in the Network Sonar Results wizard. Complete the wizard to add devices for monitoring.

When you finish the wizard, go to the SD-WAN Orchestrator Details page (Settings > Manage Nodes > click the orchestrator node). After the next poll, the page will display data not only for the orchestrator, but also for monitored edge devices.

Configure SD-WAN monitoring on devices already monitored with SolarWinds Platform

If you monitored SD-WAN edge devices in using SNMP, you can keep monitoring it via SNMP but you will not get any SD-WAN-related details. See API-based monitoring for HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD-WAN devices.

To get SD-WAN details for the orchestrator and its edge devices, start monitoring them via API:

1. Remove the node from monitoring. See Delete devices from monitoring.

2. Re-add the node and select Orchestrator: API as the polling method. See Add SD-WAN devices to SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted.

Monitor SD-WAN data for HPE Aruba Networking devices

When you enable SD-WAN polling for an HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD-WAN orchestrator node and click it, the SD-WAN Orchestrator Summary page opens.

By default, it includes widgets you can use to manage the device, view the device details, active alerts, latest events, or AppStack for the device.

Edge Devices

This widget lists device names, IP addresses, models, serial numbers and network IDs of edge devices paired with the orchestrator.

Orchestrator Inventory

This widget displays a list of devices connected to managed orchestrators. Devices managed by SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted are marked in the Managed by Platform column.

To add unmanaged devices, click the Discover Aruba Devices button and add them for monitoring.

SD-WAN Map

This widget is available on Orchestrator views. It displays connections between monitored devices on the network. For directly connected devices, you can also see used interfaces.

VPN Tunnels

On SD-WAN Orchestrator views, this widget displays VPN tunnels and their metrics for all edges paired with the orchestrator.

On an edge Node Details view, the widget displays VPN tunnels and their metrics for the edge.

WAN UpLinks

Monitor SD-WAN interfaces

Interfaces on HPE Aruba Networking devices are polled via API. Interfaces are discovered during the API discovery. Interface Type is always reported as "Ethernet".

Interface polling intervals use the polling intervals set for nodes. As a result, to force polling interface details, select the parent node in Node Management and click Poll Now. The Poll Now option for individual interfaces is not available.

Threshold limitations for API-polled interfaces

Error Thresholds are not supported because Error polling is not implemented.

Utilization Thresholds are supported but require the bandwidth setup. To make utilization thresholds work, set bandwidth on interfaces manually. Utilization thresholds use interface speed and polling interface speed is not implemented.

What is polled....

When?	What is polled?	What is NOT polled?
Rediscovery	interface index ifName MTU physical addres	interface speed duplex mode interface name interface alias
Status polls	interface index ifName admin status oper status	interface name interface last change
Statistics	interface availability sent and received bytes sent and received packets	other information on interface traffic interface errors To get information on interface utilization, set the bandwidth of the interface manually.