Cisco DNA Center Reviews

As the number of network devices and end-points increases in the network, more centralization requirements occur. On the SIEM side, Splunk centralizes all the monitoring, visualization, and automation. Cisco DNA Center emerges on the hardware side with its automation and visibility increasing abilities.

If your enterprise needs to create internal/ operational efficiencies, you are urged for innovation and really in need of driving the revenue growth and your organization is looking for improvement for your business process agility, then this product is a star.

Where the organization doesn't want to deploy so many people to manage IT infra or small size organizations may take network services to support directly from Cisco authorized partners and to ensure smooth and customized solution DNA works well.

We are using Cisco DNA Center on clients with several branch offices like banks, oil & gas companies that need one central controller (orchestrator). You can create scripts and use API to get, put, upgrade and delete information from DNAC. You can apply the changes in any device connected to DNAC and permit integration with other vendors and Cisco Meraki.

Cisco is recognized for good products and good support on failure situations. When you buy a Cisco DNA Center you buy a SMARTnet contract that you can use to contact with Cisco Support (Cisco TAC) who are experienced engineers and solve any issue. On the other hand Cisco has a big community who will help you or you can find if your problem was presented by other.

I really like DNAC because it builds overlay fabric without problem and it is really user friendly to manage, integrate with other vendors. But two things that I do not like and for me is a 9 are you can not save or archive device's configurations and the other is you must buy physical server.

From my experience, any product you purchase has to match your environment. You need to research it. For Cisco, it was an easy call for us, as we have multiple Cisco products so getting this was easy & also cost-effective too.

Cisco DNA is well suited for those who value time. Cisco DNA cuts out a lot of additional time with troubleshooting, configuration, upgrading, and more. If a company can afford Cisco DNA Center and the devices that are needed, it can make Network Administrators' lives much easier. There will be a learning curve to Cisco DNA Center, but it is worth it.

Cisco's customer support is always top-notch. Being able to call in, provide some basic information about the product, then getting on the phone with a tech that knows the product inside and out is a great asset. Many companies fall short in providing excellent customer support. I won't name names, but you can see that many companies struggle with customer support. Cisco has one of the best approaches to customer support in my opinion. After a call with a support representative, I don't find myself wishing something would change for the better.

To guarantee safer environments Cisco DNA Center is ideal, it should be borne in mind that the issue of permissions must be very clear because it can become very complex to give the required permissions if this is not defined in time and in detail. In our case, we had extra work to define the access groups for the different environments of the institution.

We worked on the implementation with an appropriate partner, in addition to the successful inclusion of Fabrica in this deployment, which occurred successfully and with good results in terms of planning and execution of planned tasks. Due to this, we recommend the use of the factory service for its support in the implementation and in post-production.

When you have relaxed calendar for migrating to [Cisco] DNA Center, it perfectly do the automation job. As setting it up very time consuming, it requires flexibility on operations. In a tight calendar, [Cisco] DNA Center migration is a stressful process.
While it is the perfect tool as a network automation product with various vendor support, you may also need to consider is it fully compatible with your current devices on your network. As we were setting up a new infrastructure, we purchased all equipment compatible with Cisco's solution.

Zero-day deployment is something that everyone can get behind. DNA Center has made automation and assurance a second thought. The security of this program is something we took a serious look at before launching and absolutely loving the configuration options available to us. Also, being able to integrate with 3rd party devices and programs make this so incredibly versatile.

Cisco DNA Center is suited for large scale, high budget environments that primarily use Cisco products and utilize a centralized management and monitoring strategy. If you only have a couple of Cisco switches, a smaller network, or a lower budget, this may not be the most cost-effective solution out there.

The user interface is friendly and unintimidating. There has been a short learning curve.

Very likely would recommend. The goal of keeping everything in the Cisco ecosystem is ease of use. You can count on their systems to work well together and mostly "just work". You pay the premium for such but that's life. After having all these devices connected to the DNA center, it would be tough going to any other vendor, which sounds like a smart business decision by them!

Easy to use (once it's configured at first setup) and can potentially save IT managers lots of time managing devices. If a colleague was to ask for a product that did these things I can see myself recommending this to them easily. Not sure you can get all the same expansive features with another company.

Automating customers' campus networks, redesigning their networks, and giving much more visibility on traffic flows. If you plan to implement, I suggest you follow the guide step by step and do not proceed on your own, else you'll face a lot of problems and you'll need lots of support from Cisco TAC.

Cisco DNA is suited for a number of applications. It's great if you are looking to configure all of your network devices. Setup is very easy if you know what you are doing. It's a great solution if you need artificial intelligence to help you problem solve your networking issues. I would say it's less appropriate to use if you are a small business.

Used in all campus networks to make the security network more restrictive.

Many tools of DNA are not available. For example, a ISO to re-install servers.

Cisco DNA Center is a good option to gain some time in network documentation activities like with network maps or network device inventory. Cisco DNA Center is an excellent option if your network is using IOS-XE only devices, which means you will have full support for the different modules. Moreover, you can automate some of the actions by using the Cisco DNA Center API.

Support for DNA Center is okay. Cisco is trying to make sure we spend the least possible time troubleshooting, and we spend time taking care of our networks. We can see this in how the TAC solves the issues. They always try to be quick and carefully listen to the customer requests.

It is well suited for a company with campus sites where there is quite a lot of hardware to manage. DNA Center, to me, is a tool to manage a lot of hardware (with auto deployment, templates and so on). It is also great to manage SDA.

It is a young product that needs to mature. Right now a software update is a very serious thing and could take several hours and crash and need TAC support. Partners do not yet seem to be 100% up to speed to give high quality support.

Appropriate for userspace. It works really well for that, less so for use in a data center environment. I would really like to get both user space and data center space under one pane of glass to operate. There is also the core network that provides the conduit between users and data center/internet resources. I was hopeful that Cisco DNA Center would act as the primary control station for the enterprise network.

We had some challenges trying to get AVC working but took Cisco several weeks to realize their documents were wrong. And, that their existing hardware we have in operation does not support AVC as we had been told it would in presales.

Es muy apropiado para escenarios de small business y enterprise , no la remiendo para service provider aunque se podría contemplar la opción de vender a terceros desde un service provider

porque todavía no he necesitado abrir un caso con Cisco por el DNA, pero 8 va por la experiencia con el TAC de Cisco, siempre se demoran mas de lo contratado y el work-around siempre son bugs y se solucionan con parches a la solución

Because I haven't even needed to open a case with Cisco for DNA, but 8 goes for the experience with Cisco TAC, they always take longer than they state and the work-around are always bugged and are fixed with patches to the solution

con empresas muy grandes que estan migrando una red de catalyst 2960x o de la serie 3000 o tambien que se encuentran migrando los access points.

with very large companies that are migrating a network of catalyst 2960x or 3000 series or also that are migrating access points.

porque el manejo de los equipos con dna es muy sencilla y ayuda a los ingenieros a implementar de una manera mas rapida // Because the handling of the equipment with DNA is very simple and it helps engineers to implement in a faster way

DNA Center provides an extremely high level fo security, which is very important for a Data Center. The reporting is very detailed and there was lots of support for implementation. For our instance all of our campuses are monitored and linked, and controlled from the the regional offices. It's great if you need to have have full control of the teams from a single location. Also the equipment capacities are impressive, it can handle a lot.

Para Data Center es sumamente importante, A nivel de seguridad aporta toda la informacion necesaria. Los reportes son completamente sustanciosos. La implementacion se facilita. Los diferentes campus estan monitoreados y enlazados. En las oficinas regionales se tiene todo el control de los equipos desde un solo punto de atencion. La capacidad que tiene de equipos es impresionante.

I consider it the best solution in the industry, it brings a lot of value our investment. The infrastructure is easy to manage from a single access point without any inconvenience and helps us comply with international certifications such as being PCI. The Management reports are the best.

Considero que es la mejor solucion de la industria, aporta mucho valor a la inversion que se realiza, La infraestructura es facil de administrar desde un solo punto de acceso sin ningun inconveniente, Es de gran ayuda para cumplir con las certificaciones internacionales como ser PCI. Los reportes gerenciales son lo mejor.

For example, it is better suited for use in an enterprise network where you have or you want to know information about the clients or issues. This is when you need assistance from DNA Center.

The support is good when you request information about Cisco DNA.

DNA Center is more effective in the branches when you don't have IT staff, or it is limited staff, and datacenter is not is an option.

Cisco TAC delivery, which is more effective with their vendors. The information on the internet is better for support.

Centralización de la gestión de la red lan con integraciones entre plataformas de seguridad y data center

Centralization of LAN network management with integration between your security platforms and data center.

Al momento solo se ha evaluado el soporte previo a la implementación

Only pre-implementation support has been evaluated at the moment.

Being able to access, and control the entire network from anywhere is a major plus as we have many sites and aren't always in one specific location.