Claim the Prisma SD-WAN ION and Assign to a Site

The ION will show up as

Unclaimed:Online

under the

Map > Unclaimed Devices

section of the Prisma SD-WAN web interface when connected to the Prisma SD-WAN controller.

It can take up to 10 minutes for the ION to show up in the Controller.

Claim the device. It will transition to an offline state while going through the claiming process.

Create a

Data Center

site. From the

Map

, fill out the site location details, select

Data Center

as the type, and add 1 Internet circuit.

Complete Site Name and Address (Using address search is recommended).



Select site type as

Data Center

and create

Internet Circuit

.

Select

Circuit Category

,

WAN Provider

and edit the

Circuit Name

. Review the site configuration and

Save & Exit

when ready.



From the

Site Summary

screen, select

Assign Device

, select the ION device you claimed in step one and click

OK

.





Once the device is successfully assigned, click on the device name (ion 7108v) to enter the device configuration screen.



Provide a

Device Name

.



Configure

Port 1

.

Assig the Internet WAN

Circuit Label

you created in step 2, the IP address assigned to the interface (nic1) in the Internet VPC and providing the external NAT address and port. To determine the interface and external (ephemeral) IP addresses navigate to the GCP portal and find the Public IP address provisioned for the internet interface

Compute > VM > Select VM

.





Configure

port 2

.

Select

Admin Up

as

Yes

,

Use this port

to

Peer with a Network

, and set for

DHCP

.

Configure a static default route pointing to the gateway of port 2 (the 1st IP address of the private subnet specified in the peering subnet).



Switch the site to

Control

mode and verify the VPNs are up and active.

Proceed to the next section to finalize the GCP deployment steps.