Enabling or disabling the BFD protocol

You can enable or disable the BFD protocol on an individual CPE device or on all devices that use the CPE template. When enabling the BFD protocol, you must create a BFD peer.

To enable or disable the BFD protocol on an individual CPE device:

1. In the menu, go to the SD-WAN section.

   By default, the CPE subsection is displayed with a table of CPE devices.

2. Click the CPE device.

   The settings area is displayed in the lower part of the page. You can expand the settings area to fill the entire page by clicking the expand button .

3. Select the BFD settings tab.

   A table of BFD peers is displayed.

4. Select the Override check box to ignore the applied CPE template and make the settings in the selected tab editable. This check box is cleared by default.
5. In the BFD drop-down list, select one of the following values:
   • Enabled
   • Disabled (selected by default)
6. In the upper part of the settings area, click Save to save the configuration of the CPE device.

To enable or disable the BFD protocol on all devices that use a CPE template:

1. In the menu, go to the SD-WAN → CPE templates subsection.

   A table of CPE templates is displayed.

2. Click the CPE template.

   The settings area is displayed in the lower part of the page. You can expand the settings area to fill the entire page by clicking the expand button .

3. Select the BFD settings tab.

   A table of BFD peers is displayed.

4. In the BFD drop-down list, select one of the following values:
   • Enabled
   • Disabled (selected by default)
5. In the upper part of the settings area, click Save to save the configuration of the CPE template.