Nodes

Bonders, aggregators, and private WAN routers are different types of “nodes” in a SD-WAN environment. This section describes how to provision and manage nodes.

• Accessing a node
  • Aggregators and bonders
  • Bonders only
  • Aggregators only
• Collecting Linux kernel crash core dumps with kdump
  • Requirements
  • Usage
  • Verify that kexec is enabled and loaded
  • Provoking a kernel crash
• Controlling node services
• Node applications
  • bonding-setup
  • nodeconfig
  • bondlog
  • bondlog examples
  • bondctl
  • bondctl examples
  • legids
  • legping
  • nodessl
  • bgpenable
• Node web service
  • Configuring default bonders
  • Displaying configuration and status information
• Recovering an offline bonder
  • Recovery procedure
• Reviewing log files
  • Logs on Debian Jessie and above
  • Logs on Debian Wheezy
  • Debug logging
• Supported environments for nodes
  • Optimizing IRQ handling
  • Virtualization best practices
• System requirements
  • Management server
  • Aggregators
  • Bonders
  • Further Recommendations
• Updating hardware BIOS serial and boot settings
  • Lanner FW-7535
  • Lanner FW-7582
  • Lanner FW-7581
  • Lanner FW-7571
  • Lanner FW-7543
  • Lanner FW-7573
  • Lanner NCA-1010
  • Portwell CAR-3000
  • PC Engines Alix 2D13
  • PC Engines APU 1C
  • PC Engines APU 2C
  • Netgate RCC-VE 4860
  • Netgate RCC-VE 2440
• Deconfiguring a bonder
  • Clearing host configuration to make a clone template
  • Resetting a bonder to the default configuration
• Provisioning nodes
  • Configuring default bonder via web service
  • Creating bootable USB disks from ISO images
  • Initial Bonding configuration
  • Installation configuration profiles
  • Troubleshooting provisioning issues
  • Node installation methods
• Upgrading and replacing a node
  • Changing a bonder key
  • Replacing a bonder
  • Upgrading a node
  • Upgrading Debian on a Node
  • Upgrading openSUSE Leap on a Node