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Thanks to Cisco’s push to deploy more Thousand Eyes agents, the Catalyst team has given us an easy button for deploying agents to the Catalyst 9300 and 9400 switches using Catalyst Center, formally DNA Center. The agent is deployed as a docker container using the App-hosing framework built natively into the 9300 and 9400 series platforms. Catalyst Center streamlines the deployment of the...

My latest project has been a switch refresh and a deployment of a Catalyst Center with Assurance only for a customer across all of their sites. Now the task I had at hand was how can I use Catalyst Center to automate as much configuration on the switches as possible. Because we were only licensed for Assurance we did not have access to use any of the SD-Access fabric automation that Catalyst...

Using DNA Center (Catalyst Center) LAN Automation to make your life easier.

I am currently deploying an SD-Access fabric using Cisco's DNA Center, now rebranded as Catalyst Center. As part of this project we used the LAN automation process to build the network to all of the access switches. We had about 15 different switches in 15 different IDFs so using this process made quick work of...