Cisco Catalyst CenterFormerly Cisco DNA Center
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What is Cisco Catalyst Center?
Cisco Catalyst Center (formerly Cisco DNA Center) is a network management system that leverages AI to connect, secure, and automate customer’s network operations. It harnesses the Catalyst family of switching and wireless through AI-enabled automation that simplifies the IT experience and streamlines complex…
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Lots of potential
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Interesting technology to automate network deployment
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What is Cisco Catalyst Center?
Cisco Catalyst Center (formerly Cisco DNA Center) is a network management system that leverages AI to connect, secure, and automate customer’s network operations. It harnesses the Catalyst family of switching and wireless through AI-enabled automation that simplifies the IT experience and…
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What is Cisco Catalyst Center?
Cisco Catalyst Center (formerly Cisco DNA Center) is a network management system that leverages AI to connect, secure, and automate customer’s network operations.
It harnesses the Catalyst family of switching and wireless through AI-enabled automation that simplifies the IT experience and streamlines complex network operations.
Offering operational flexibility, Cisco Catalyst Center can be deployed on-premises on a physical appliance or in a VMware virtual environment, or in a public cloud service such as Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Whether scaling a network or simplifying IT operations, Cisco Catalyst Center helps to harness the full potential of the enterprise network—empowering IT teams to deliver unified experiences to users and measurable value to the organization.
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(1-25 of 127)The DNA Journey DNA to Catalyst
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- Assurance
- Trending
- Backups
Cisco Catalyst Center - What works?
- SWIM - It's made easy and now when it's possible to choose which devices to upgrade in which order on a site, the upgrade does not fail as often.
- Network inventory - It's easy to get a good overview of all network devices, and especially the EoS feature is nice.
- ZTP - This takes a lot of time and effort to implement. Sometimes the templates are too long to run and you have to do several iterations.
- WLC integration - It's a little flaky when you add the WLC to Cisco Catalyst Center. Sometimes after WLC failover or upgrade you have to remove and add it again.
Cisco Catalyst Center!
- SWIM
- Inventory
- Analysis and insights
- XFSU IOS upgrade
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- Software Management
- Inventory Overview
- Integration with Cisco Security
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- Software upgrades
- Config management
- Audit
- We are using it for short time so I am not aware of any
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- Assurance to support troubleshooting
- Device details
- Version control
- Timelining
- Complicated menu options which makes finding things difficult
- License management which has option to open sync’ed smart account
- Device details require a lot of clicking through new windows to see everything
Mixed vendor environment with little to no functionality or definitions available.
The highs and lows of the Cisco Catalyst Center journey
- Onboard switches and AP’s and apply standard policies
- Visualize the network
- Push out software updates
- Provide monitoring on multiple aspects of the network function
- Price
- More integration with spaces
- Easier to rename claimed devices
- Easier to move devices between maps
- Easier to move maps within the hierarchy as the hierarchy may not solely be defined by location
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- Telemetry
- Availability
- Automation
- Scan for more subnets
- More stable updates/versions
Cisco Catalyst Center in&out
Switch management is one of the important functions of Cisco Catalyst Center, providing seamless upgrade of software. Assurance is the part of Cisco Catalyst Center used on everyday basis in monitoring campus infrastructure.
- Network Health dashboard
- Everyday Inventory activities (after LAN Automation or PnP or Discovery)
- Ability to manage and monitor infrastructure using Cisco Catalyst Center API
- UI slowness
- Task deployment failure troubleshooting
- ISE integration (fails often, troubleshooting almost impossible)
On the other hand managing access to infrastructure (host onboarding for example) is one tedious job. To set 48 access ports on a switch takes more time than it would take an engineer connected to a switch using CLI.
Cisco Catalyst Center
- Zero touch provisioning/ZTP
- Segmentation
- Software defined campus network
- Improve code/QA quality - reduce number of bugs.
Lots of potential
- Inventory
- Monitoring
- Configurations the products
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- TrustSec with ISE
- Assurance
- SDA
- ZTP
- Cli Template
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- Software management
- Automation
- Troubleshooting
- Licensing of devices means the product does not meet all its potential
- Remaining an established product is daft
Interesting technology to automate network deployment
- Zero touch provisioning
- GUI configuration
- Overview of templates and settings
- Consistent configuration deployment
- Some features are missing
- Backup / restore has had issues
- NFS share has caused the whole system to crash
- Better SD-WAN integration
SDA design
Management and deployment of large number of devices
Automatic onboarding
Software updates
Assurance
We can't think of any particular scenario where it has a negative or less appropriate use case. Perhaps in smaller scale, SOHO solutions as it would be costly.
DNAC
- Config templating
- Provisioning
- Network mapping
- Easier custom automation
- Direct ap management for wlc managed aps
- Searchable config backup database
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- Assurance
- Administration
- Operations
- The software itself, GUI
Lot of potential but it has to grow to it
- Switch management
- AP management
- Configuration of devices
- Easy to use automation for beginners
Cisco Catalyst Center made my day
- Stability
- Visibility
- Flexibility
- More integration with Meraki
- Not really another problem
Cisco Catalyst Center and its path to network automation
We are also leveraging the APIs to drag out the the information from Cisco Catalyst Center and display this information to our customers as we are a MSP.
- Very nice interface
- The documentation is easy to understand
- The inventory system with SWIM is very well made
- Telemetry gives an overview
- APIs, the rate limiting can be daunting
- Multi-tenancy support could be nice
- Option for third party devices, after the multivendor SDK was discontinued
The service containers can restart, as well leaving us with outage. This can be very annoying.
Easier and automated software upgrades with Cisco Catalyst Center
- SD-Access
- Monitoring
- Troubleshooting
- Device 360 for Sensors
Good equipment by Cisco
- Robust
- Good performance
- Strong device
- Nothing, looks good
DNA
- Assurance
- Rollout/Provisioning
- Monitoring
- Upgrade procedure
- Device support
Cisco Catalyst Center Implementation
We currently have a problem with the cleanup of the old AAA Configuration because the Cisco Catalyst Center does not allow the cleanup. But we will hopefully figure it out.
- Auto Provisioning
- Firmware Updates
- API
- Better Introduction
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- Sd-access (SDA)
- Templating
- SWIM
- Compliance Check
- Assurance
- Tools and features are not customizable as expected
- More API capabilities
- Better GUI
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- Software Management
- Compliance monitoring
- PnP for rollouts
- RMA process for LAN Automated Fabrics
- Guiding through Assurance setup