Prepare to Configure Your WAN (Major Prerequisites)

Complete these essential tasks to set up your organization and sites and onboard your WAN Edge devices, before you configure your WAN.

Table 1: Deployment Tasks and Links
Category	Task	More Information
Preliminaries	Gather information about your network, applications, user needs, devices, IP addresses, VLAN IDs, and so on.
Organization Setup	Before you can configure your WAN or onboard your devices, you need to complete these tasks in the Juniper Mist™ portal: Create your organization. Set up at least one site. Activate your subscriptions, including Juniper Mist WAN Assurance. Configure your firewall to allow outbound Juniper Mist traffic. Recommended, but not required before you configure your WAN: Add user accounts for other personnel who are working with you to deploy Juniper Mist. You can even enable limited access for the personnel who are installing devices. Set up various security options as needed. For example, manage certificates, disable Juniper Mist support access, or enable Single Sign-On.	Juniper Mist Quick Start Firewall Configuration: Juniper Mist IP Addresses and Ports Security Options
Additional Site Setup for WAN Edge Devices	Root Password—For each site, enter a root password to use for your WAN Edge devices. If you don't define a root password in your site configuration, then the moment you activate a device to be managed by Mist Cloud, it will receive a randomly assigned root password. Additional Licenses for SRX—For any sites where you're deploying SRX Series Firewalls, you'll also need an AppSecure and APP Track license. And you'll need to enable the APP Track license option in the WAN Edge Application Visibility section of your site configuration.	Site Configuration Settings in the Juniper Mist Management Guide Application Security User Guide for Security Devices
Device Installation	Install and claim your devices into your organization.*	SSR Datasheets, Quick Starts, and Hardware Guides SRX Datasheets, Quick Starts, and Hardware Guides Manage Your Inventory in the Juniper Mist Portal (in the Juniper Mist Management Guide)

Important:

Before you can claim a previously onboarded device into a new organization or cloud instance, it must be released from its current organization or cloud. Otherwise, the claim process returns an "Invalid Code" error.

If this error occurs, contact Mist Onboarding Support to reset the device's cloud environment. Ownership validation is required before the reset can be performed.

Once the device is released, you can proceed with the onboarding process.