A retail chain approved cloud-hosted controllers and must gather everything Cisco needs to instantiate its overlay before cutover. The team owns its Smart Account, WAN Edge serials, and WAN bandwidth details. Which information and prerequisites package enables onboarding of the cloud-hosted controller overlay?
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Short Explanation
You're packing IDs and tickets before a flight. Complete entitlement paperwork lets Cisco spin up your overlay without delays.
Full Explanation
Onboarding a cloud-hosted overlay requires proving entitlement and identity so Cisco can instantiate the SD-WAN Manager, SD-WAN Controller and SD-WAN Validator (formerly vBond), which means Smart Account and subscription, WAN Edge chassis and serial authorization, certificates, exact organization name for authentication matching, and admin contacts for activation and DNS, after which templates and policies are configured by the customer. Supplying only branch running configs and SNMP strings fails by concept because those describe existing device state and monitoring, not cloud entitlement, device authorization or organization identity needed to create controllers. Supplying rack, power and hypervisors fails by concept because those are on-premises controller prerequisites that cloud delivery explicitly offloads to Cisco. Supplying email passwords and Wi-Fi keys fails by concept because endpoint credentials do not establish overlay trust, licensing or controller instantiation. For the exam remember cloud onboarding equals account plus devices plus organization plus certificates, and in practice validate serials in Plug and Play Connect and confirm organization spelling matches everywhere.