Use the following workflow to configure High Availability on a new pair of Edge 8000 devices. Refer to High Availability for an overview of the HA option. (Refer to Workflow for Initial Setup - Standalone for deploying a single, stand-alone Edge 8100 or 8300 device.)

Prerequisites

  • Login access to the following user interfaces:
    • Edge 8000 CLI, as user sysadm
    • SBC SWe Edge web-based GUI, as user admin
    • RAMP CLI, as users insight and admin

Refer to First-Time Login Passwords for the initial (default) passwords.

Workflow

StepActionUser Interface Required
1

Physically install the two Edge 8000 devices.

Install the devices and their cabling. For High Availability, also connect the HA cable between the devices. Power on the systems.

Refer to Installing Edge 8000 Hardware.


2

Configure the initial platform settings on each device.1

For High Availability, this includes:

      • Changing the default CPU assignments to decrease the number of 6WIND Fast Path router cores and increase the SWe Edge call management cores
      • Utilizing Bridge 5 as the HA bridge

Refer to Running Setup Wizard - High Availability. Perform this procedure first on one and then on the other Edge 8000 device.

Edge 8000 CLI via serial console connection or ssh client, then the Edge 8000 Setup Wizard text user interface (TUI)

3

Generate and install the SWe Edge license on each device.2, 3

Refer to Obtaining and Installing an SBC SWe Edge Production Node-Locked License. Perform this procedure first on one and then on the other Edge 8000 device.

SBC SWe Edge GUI via web browser

4

Configure the SWe Edge application on each device.1

Refer to Configuration Guides.

SBC SWe Edge GUI via web browser

5

Configure High Availability for the two devices.

Refer to Activating High Availability. This includes setting each device's local and remote IP addresses so the Standby SWe Edge instance can monitor the Active Swe Edge instance, and installing a single HA license that applies to both devices.

SBC SWe Edge GUI via web browser

6

Configure dynamic RAMP registration.3

Refer to Register an Edge 8000 Device.

RAMP CLI via ssh

Notes:

  1. Upon initial login, the system instructs you to change the password. Refer to First-Time Login Passwords for the initial (default) passwords.

  2. The Edge 8000 device comes factory-installed with an on-premise, virtual machine (VM) version of SBC SWe Edge. Follow the instructions in the document Obtaining and Installing an SBC SWe Edge Production Node-Locked License to order a production license for an on-premise VM license, then generate and install the license per the procedure given in that document.

  3. This workflow references procedures within the Edge 8000 document suite as well as procedures from other Ribbon collections, such as the SBC SWe Edge document suite and the RAMP document suite.