Purview Integration Wireless Controller 9.21

[Michael_Kirchne]

Hi community,

has anyone integrated the wireless solution V 9.21 into Purview? I get the TopN Mirror up and running but I don't get netflow packets.

Netflow is configured in the section "VNS->Global->NetflowMirrorN"
There I configured the Mgmt IP of my Purview instance and choose esa1 as my L2 Mirror Port.

Any idea?

Best Regards
Michael

[David_Coberly]

Hello all, as soon as i enable the netflow mirror L2 port (esa1) to the purview appliance all of the wireless traffic stops. all clients are still connected to the AP's but are not able to pass traffic. NMS,NAC,Purview & WLC are virtual.. Purview configured with option 1, single interface. Any ideas?

[Peter_Chang]

Hi James. So far I implemented this yesterday, and it seems to be working. We have a vmware essentials plus license, so we can't use" distributed virtual switch". But if you have the license one above that, which I think is vmware enterprise, then you should be able to use one purview vm, and have a distributed virtual switch spanning across multiple vm hosts, for the EMC esa1 and purview etgh1 to plug into. If I remember correctly, I think this distributed virtual switch needs to be set to mirroring. This is all from what I've read, and unfortunately I can't confirm as I don't have the license.

From what I've done:
VM Host 1
-EMC1
-Analytics Purview 1 VM
-Standard Switch in promiscuous mode, using dedicated L2 port connected to our switch (EMC1 esa1, and Purview1 eth1 connected to this virtual switch)
-On our switch, I created a vlan, "analytics" to isolate traffic on this standard switch

VM Host 2
-EMC2
-Analytics Purview 2 VM
-Standard Switch in promiscuous mode (EMC2 esa1, and Purview2 eth1 connected to this virtual switch)
-On our switch, I created a vlan, "analytics2" to isolate traffic on this standard switch

On EMC1
-have netflow forward to Purview1

On EMC2
-have netflow forward to Purview 2

If you have any questions, let me know.

[Peter_Chang]

Just bumping this thread.

We have two EWCs, each on different hosts, running active/active, and I'm trying to figure out how to setup one Extreme Analytics (Purview) VM, where both controllers will forward their Netflow? We aren't licensed to use Vmware's distributed switch so we have to use standard switch. Has anyone done this before? or would it be best to setup a Analytics VM on each of VM hosts where my EWC sits, as EWC esa1 and Analytics eth1, need to sit on the same Standard vSwitch.

[Mike_Thomas]

James, I am not a VMware design expert - but the ESA port would need to be sent out a specific VLAN, probably tagged in this case, so it can get to the other sides Purview appliance VM Eth1 port. The wireless controller cannot do a Gre tunnel like the PV-FC-180 and S-Series so you will need to work around that.
Others here may have more experience in the actual configuration from a Vswitch end.