What is the role of vManage in policy management for SD-WAN?

• A. vManage centrally defines and distributes Data and Control Policies to edge devices.
• B. vManage acts as an inline firewall in traffic path.
• C. vManage only handles device firmware updates.
• D. vManage stores user credentials only.

Answer: (A)

Centralized policy management is what vManage provides in Cisco SD-WAN. It’s the single place you use to author both data-plane policies—how traffic is treated across the WAN (path selection, QoS, SLA-based routing)—and control-plane policies—how routes are advertised and learned, and how VPNs are formed. Once you define these policies in vManage, they’re distributed to the edge devices through the SD-WAN control plane so all devices follow the same rules. This isn’t an inline firewall and it isn’t just for firmware updates or user credentials; its main job is to create and push consistent policies across the network.