Which component is responsible for creating and maintaining the secure DTLS/TLS connection on the vSmart controller?

The vdaemon process on a vSmart controller manages the secure DTLS/TLS control plane connections with other SD-WAN components like vManage, vBond, and WAN Edge devices. These secure tunnels are essential for the trustworthy exchange of routing and policy information across the overlay network.

OMP (Overlay Management Protocol) is the routing protocol that runs *over* the secure DTLS/TLS connections, exchanging reachability and policy information, but it does not create the underlying secure tunnels.

SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is used for network monitoring, not for establishing secure control plane connections in Cisco SD-WAN.

NETCONF (Network Configuration Protocol) is used for programmatic configuration management, but it relies on an underlying secure transport, it does not create the DTLS/TLS connections themselves.