Configure the ION Device at a Branch Site

Select
Workflows
Devices
Claimed
and select the device you wish to configure.
From the ellipsis menu, select
Configure the device
.
The device configuration screen displays.
On the
Basic Info
screen, enter a name and an
(optional)
description for the device.
The ION device model, redundancy mode, serial number, and software version display automatically.
To
Enable L3 Direct Private WAN Forwarding
, toggle
Yes
or
No
. By default, the BGP configuration uses a bypass pair for private WAN underlay traffic, and a Layer 3 interface explicitly enables Layer 3 Direct Private WAN Forwarding for the private WAN underlay.
To
Enable L3 LAN Forwarding
, toggle
Yes
or
No
. Yes indicates that traffic forwarding to and from LAN interface, when
Enable L3 Direct Private WAN Forwarding
is enabled.
Enabled
or
Disabled
the
Application Reachability Probe
, is used to probe for application reachability or to check if an application is reachable on a given path. Devices use the controller port as the source probe interface by default. On devices running 5.4.1 and later versions, you can configure a LAN port as a source probe interface.
Click
Create an HA group
, to create an ION device cluster.
Navigate to
Device Toolkit
to enable device session access.
For
Enable Device Session Access
, toggle
Yes
.
For
Enable Outbound SSH
, toggle
Yes
, if you want to use the device CLI commands to SSH from an ION device to another device within your enterprise network. The default value is
No
.
Change values for
Inactive Interval
,
Retry Login Count
, and
Account Disabled Interval
, if needed.
You can access the device CLI from the web interface.

Navigate to
Interfaces
to configure the controller ports, internet ports, and the WAN/LAN ports.