DNAC & Meraki Webinar Catalyst Monitoring With Meraki-V11

DNAC Intro & Cloud Monitoring of Catalyst
switches with Meraki Dashboard
Sathish Kumar
Customer Success Specialist
Email for inquiry: catalystcloudmonitoring@cisco.com
7th July 2023
1 DNAC Intro and its Use cases
2 Unified Experience
3 Common Use Cases

Agenda
Meraki Dashboard
4
Overview
5 Onboarding Devices
6 Cloud Monitoring Demo

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Cisco DNA Center
CCO
Porta
l Cisco
Portal
Software
PnP Connect
Cloud-based device
discovery
PnP Connect
Redirects devices to
On-Prem DNA Center
Cisco AI
Analytics Engine
Benefits of DNA Center
❖ Faster Network DNA Center Appliance

Provisioning
❖ Scheduled Upgrades
❖ AI Analytics for Monitoring Physical and virtual infrastructure
and Troubleshooting Physical and Virtual Infrastructure
Cisco and third-party
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Cisco DNA Center Hardware
Secondary - 10 Gbps Cluster Port
DN2-HW-APL/DN2-HW-APL-L Secondary - 10 Gbps Enterprise Port
Secondary - 1/10 Gbps Internet Port
Secondary - 1/10 Gbps Management Port
1 Gbps CIMC (Cisco Integrated Management Controller) Port

Primary - 1/10 Gbps Internet Port
Primary - 10 Gbps Cluster Port
Primary - 1/10 Gbps Management Port
Primary - 10 Gbps Enterprise Port
• Distributed Micro Services running on 1 or 3-node Cluster

• Odd number to achieve quorum of distributed system
• 2 nodes active/sharing + 1 redundant

• Some services run multiple copies spread across nodes (e.g. databases)
• Other services run single copy and will migrate from failed to redundant node
• Seen as 1 logical instance

• Connect to Virtual (Cluster) IP
• Rarely need to access individual nodes
Faster Provisioning
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PnP Solution Components
1 DNA Center (PnP
Server)
Auto-provision device w/
images & configs.
DNA Center
Policy Automation Analytics

Customer On-Premise
SSL
PnP Protocol
3 HTTPs/XML based Open
Schema protocol
SUDI Capable devices
2 PnP Agent
Cisco® switches, routers,
andConfidential
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Scheduled
Upgrade
© 2021
Scheduled Upgrades through DNA Center
Cisco DNA Center
Analytics
© 2021
Cisco DNA Center Analytics
From Network Data to Business Insights
Correlation
Network Telemetry Issues Guided Remediation
Complex Event
Contextual Data Insights Actions
Processing
Clients Baseline
INSIGHTS
Application Network
Configuration that is Pushed from DNAC to Network devices after
Provisioning by Device Controllability
• Device Discovery
o SNMP Credentials
o NETCONF Credentials
o CDP/LLDP for topology info
• Adding Devices to Inventory
• Assigning Devices to a Site
o Controller Certificates
o SNMP Trap Server Definitions
o Syslog Server Definitions
o NetFlow Server Definitions
o Wireless Service Assurance (WSA)
IPDT Enablement
DNA Center version for deployment
Recommended Version for DNAC Setup: 2.3.3.6
Unified Experience
Your IT operating model, your way
Flexibility, choice, and simplicity
On-Premises Cloud
Management Management
Do-it-Yourself
Cloud Cloud first IT Transformation
Operational Flexibility Monitoring Operational Simplicity
Cisco Physical Appliance

DNA
Center Virtual Appliance
High-Touch Low-Touch
Better together
in cloud-
#1 managed #1 in
networks
Meraki Catalyst networking
Cloud platform Ecosystem Wireless Switches
What is Unified Experience?
Monitoring Only Full Management
Meraki
Persona
C9200
Monitoring with Management with *
C9300 Meraki Dashboard C9300
Meraki Dashboard
C9500
*Selected SKU
Catalyst Monitoring on Meraki Dashboard
C9200/C9300/C9500
Platform Meraki Cloud Dashboard -SaaS
Capabilities Monitoring Only
OS 17.3.4
License • If DNA-E, No Additional License Required for basic monitoring.

Advantage license is required for client and app visibility
Common Use Cases
Common Use Cases
Cloud Monitoring for Catalyst
Cloud-Monitored Cloud-Monitored
Core Cloud-Managed Core
Remote Sites
Cloud-Monitored WAN Cloud-Managed

Access Access
Cloud-Monitored
HQ
Cloud Monitoring for Catalyst Campus with Cloud Monitoring for

Catalyst Networks Meraki Branches Tiered Architecture
Meraki Dashboard Overview
Cloud Monitoring for Catalyst
Unified view of Cisco M

network infrastructure
Device health and

troubleshooting
Network client and

traffic information
Topology with Catalyst and Meraki switches/APs
Layer 2 and Layer 3 network diagram

Keep Your Network Healthy
In-Dashboard alerts for

switch or port issues
Port-level packet
and error counters
Remote troubleshooting
and diagnostics tools
Switch Up/Down,
List of all Catalyst and Meraki switches Model, Version
Per Switch details and
Catalyst Details (monitoring mode) users info
Catalyst Troubleshooting Tools (monitoring mode)
Ping,
Port Recycle
Know What’s Happening With Your Users
See connected devices

across your network
Detailed network usage

and traffic statistics
Application visibility
into network traffic
Top users in network
Application Traffic Top application traffic over time
Cloud Monitoring Capabilities
Centralized view of the Real time switch and Remote monitoring App visibility Network topology
entire network port health Powerful live Make it easy to Monitor devices and
Visibility of Cisco devices Monitor Catalyst troubleshooting tools understand how their connections in a
whether Meraki or Catalyst connectivity and health for identifying and valuable network unified dynamically
switches from one from the Dashboard correcting issues, even resources are being generated topology
Dashboard from thousands of miles used. (DNA Advantage diagram
away License required for full
feature set)
Supported Platforms and Software
Firmware
IOS-XE 17.3+
Models
Catalyst
9200/L
9300/L/X Licensing
9500 DNA Advantage
DNA Essentials*
* DNA Essentials will not provide application or usage data
Onboarding Your Devices
Onboarding Catalyst Switches to Dashboard
Verify devices were
onboarded
5
Download and run the
onboarding application from a
4 device with SSH access to the
switch
Obtain Meraki API key 3
Verify that the switch has

2 connectivity to the Dashboard
Configure SSH access to

Catalyst switches 1
Onboarding Catalyst switches to Meraki Dashboard
Step 1: Register a free

Meraki Dashboard
And go to
“Add devices” Step 2: Download
App
Step 3: Register
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Catalyst
Monitoring
Demo
Catalyst Monitoring through Meraki Mobile App
Health of Connected Throughput

Device Inventory
monitoring
Nwk,Devices & Clients Clients

Licenses
Available in DNA Essentials and DNA Advantage
Advantage Licensing Essentials Licensing

Traffic Analytics No Traffic Analytics
Read-only configuration
Converged client view
Port bandwidth usage
Troubleshooting tools
Firmware tracking
Unified topology
Resources
https://community.meraki.com/t5/Meraki-Community/ct-p/meraki
https://documentation.meraki.com/Cloud_Monitoring_for_Catalyst/Onboarding/Clou
d_Monitoring_for_Catalyst_Onboarding_Guide
https://documentation.meraki.com/Cloud_Monitoring_for_Catalyst/Onboarding/Clou
d_Monitoring_for_Catalyst_Overview_and_FAQ
QnA
If you need help with onboarding catalyst to
Next Steps Meraki dashboard, email
catalystcloudmonitoring@cisco.com

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DNAC Intro & Cloud Monitoring of Catalyst

switches with Meraki Dashboard

3 Common Use Cases

6 Cloud Monitoring Demo

Benefits of DNA Center

❖ Faster Network DNA Center Appliance

1 Gbps CIMC (Cisco Integrated Management Controller) Port

• Distributed Micro Services running on 1 or 3-node Cluster

• 2 nodes active/sharing + 1 redundant

• Seen as 1 logical instance

Policy Automation Analytics

SUDI Capable devices

DNA Center version for deployment

Recommended Version for DNAC Setup: 2.3.3.6

Cisco Physical Appliance

Cloud platform Ecosystem Wireless Switches

Monitoring Only Full Management

Capabilities Monitoring Only

License • If DNA-E, No Additional License Required for basic monitoring.

Cloud-Monitored WAN Cloud-Managed

Cloud Monitoring for Catalyst Campus with Cloud Monitoring for

Unified view of Cisco M

Device health and

Network client and

Layer 2 and Layer 3 network diagram

In-Dashboard alerts for

See connected devices

Detailed network usage

* DNA Essentials will not provide application or usage data

Obtain Meraki API key 3

Verify that the switch has

Configure SSH access to

Step 1: Register a free

Health of Connected Throughput

Nwk,Devices & Clients Clients

Advantage Licensing Essentials Licensing

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