A public health clinic network must onboard a remote library WAN Edge into the SD-WAN overlay. Which onboarding requirement is essential for trust and inventory before the Edge joins?
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Short Explanation
Onboarding is the badge check at the civic door: the Edge proves who it is with certificates and shows up on the approved inventory list before anyone lets it into the overlay. Skipping trust and whitelisting is like propping the door open. Turning a library router into a vSmart is the wrong job entirely.
Full Explanation
WAN Edge onboarding in Cisco SD-WAN depends on authenticated identity—typically certificates—and authorization via controller inventory/whitelist so only approved devices form control connections. Disabling DTLS/TLS authentication undermines the control-plane trust model. Edges do not assume vSmart roles; they receive policy and OMP information from controllers after successful onboarding. Publicly publishing device secrets is never an onboarding method.