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View Service Provider Connections Through the Strata Multitenant Cloud Manager

Learn how to view Service Provider (SP) Connection status through the Strata Multitenant Cloud Manager
Where Can I Use This?What Do I Need?
  • Strata Multitenant Cloud Manager
  • Commercial deployments
After you add Service Provider (SP) Backbones and connections, you can view whether the connections have finished setting up and whether they are operational.
  1. Access the Strata Multitenant Cloud Manager and select ManageService Provider Backbonesselect a connection Connections tab.
  2. Choose from the GCP or AWS tabs.
  3. This page offers the following widgets:
    Widget
    Description
    Status
    • Active — The backbone has at least one active connection, so is considered active.
    • Inactive — The backbone does not have at least one active connections, so to be considered active.
    • Pending — The SP must do the configurations for BGP peering and work with the Palo Alto Networks SRE.
    • Staging — Pending Palo Alto Networks SRE validation and approval.
    • Failed — Edit or delete the connection details and try again.
    Total Active Connections
    Displays the total number of active connections.
    Total Pending Connections
    Displays the total number of pending connections.
    Failed Connections
    Displays the total number of failed connections.
    Total Bandwidth
    Displays the total bandwidth for all the connections.
    Connections
    Displays the following, based on mostly on your entries when adding the connection:
    • Connection Name
    • Tenants
    • Bandwidth
    • Pairing Key —
    • Compute Region
    • Edge Aval
    • BGP Peer ASN
    • BGP Peer IP
    • CLD RTR ASN — Cloud router autonomous system number (ASN).
    • CLD RTR IP — Cloud router IP address.
    • Status.
      • Green check — Good.
      • Yellow clock — A partner attachment is created, but not yet configured on the partner side. Though it might take one minute to create a connection, it could take five minutes for this status to change and for the pairing key to appear.
    Actions
    Delete
    Widget
    Description
    Status
    Displays the overall status of the backbone:
    • Active — The backbone has at least one active connection, so is considered active.
    • Inactive — The backbone does not have at least one active connections, so to be considered active.
    Connections Status
    Displays the total number of active, pending, and inactive connections.
    Bandwidth
    Displays the total amount of bandwidth used for all the connections.
    IP Pool Configuration
    Displays the total number of IP address pools configured.
    Connections
    Displays the following, based on mostly on your entries when adding the connection:
    • Connection Name
    • Connection UUID (AWS only)
    • Tenants
    • Bandwidth
    • Pairing Key — for BGP (GCP only)
    • AWS Account ID (AWS only)
    • Compute Region
    • Backup Region (GCP only)
    • Edge Availability
    • Status: active, inactive, pending
    • State:
      • Green check — Good.
      • Orange clock — A partner attachment is created, but not yet configured on the partner side. Though it might take one minute to create a connection, it could take five minutes for this status to change and for the pairing key to appear.
      • Red exclamation — error state.
    Actions
    Delete