topic Re: Move / Relocate device in Cisco Catalyst Center

Move / Relocate device

scsc_tech — Sat, 09 Mar 2019 01:30:42 GMT

Is it possible to move assigned devices to another building/floor/site, or do they have to be deleted from inventory and rediscovered? When I try to assign a site to a device that is already assigned, the location is grayed out and cannot be modified.

Re: Move / Relocate device

Mike.Cifelli — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 21:05:33 GMT

You should not have to completely remove the device from your inventory. Prior to attempting to move it from one site to another ensure that you have removed it from your original fabric. You should then be able to assign it elsewhere. HTH!

Re: Move / Relocate device

scsc_tech — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 21:14:55 GMT

I currently have a switch that is in the inventory and assigned to a location, but is not added to the fabric. I am unable to relocate this switch using Actions>Assign Device to site

Re: Move / Relocate device

Ambuj M — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 21:17:07 GMT

I don't think it can be done without removing in order .. remove host on-boarding config, remove from Fabric, unprovision (delete from provision device list). What are you trying to accomplish eventually, there might be easier way

Re: Move / Relocate device

Ambuj M — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 21:19:41 GMT

you will have to delete and add again manually or through discovery.

Re: Move / Relocate device

rkhan786 — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 12:51:50 GMT

I have a similar problem of grayed out option but another DNAC let me move any device to anywhere I wants. Same soft ver of 1.3.x. on both. Did anybody have any solution?

Re: Move / Relocate device

steen.nielsen — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 23:51:56 GMT

Have the same issue, some is gray'd out some is not. Only think I can do is deleting the device, then re-add it back in.

Re: Move / Relocate device

Alexander Rauch — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 09:45:06 GMT

Can you tell me what is the impact when I delete a device from the Inventory? Device is not added to a fabric, it just got discovered and added to a site. Afterwards some config was pushed to it. I would like to understand what happens when I delete the device from inventory now. Does it just get deleted or does any config also being deleted again. I hope not the switch will be set to factory default or something.

Re: Move / Relocate device

willwetherman — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 11:48:37 GMT

When you delete a device from the inventory (that is not added to a fabric), DNAC will ask if you want to clean up the configuration which will remove any configuration that DNAC applied during and following initial discovery and provisioning such as device controllability settings and network settings (AAA, NTP etc). Any configuration that was present on the device prior to DNAC discovery will not be removed.

From my previous testing with configuration cleanup, DNAC doesn't remove any configuration that was applied using templates and it doesn't remove some settings such as the DNAC-CA trustpoint and IP Device Tracking that is pushed to the device during discovery (I have had to remove these manually). I'm not sure if this behaviour is the same in the latest release.

If you dont want DNAC to remove any configuration, simply leave the Configuration Clean-UP option unchecked and click OK.

Re: Move / Relocate device

Alexander Rauch — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 12:38:37 GMT

Great, thank you very much for your quick help!!

Re: Move / Relocate device

BenLora79498 — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 22:25:37 GMT

This is not correct... you should be able to move the device without having to delete it. I'm having the same issue but only with a few sites/devices.

Re: Move / Relocate device

eddyfonseca — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 21:56:21 GMT

I have the same issue but it seem the move option is selective to the switch or object. I am able to move with the same hardware but on another floor it does not allow me and is gray out. I do not want to remove the hardware from inventory but I do not understand what the fabric means. if you can explain that will help.

Note the hardware is Cat 9200-48 l for both devices.

thank you

Re: Move / Relocate device

eddyfonseca — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 15:10:41 GMT

If I discover a switch how does it get into the fabric, I have not done anything else with the switch other than discover it and place it on a site>building>floor. when you speak about a fabric what are you referring to so I can get a better understanding of the terms.

Re: Move / Relocate device

Julien Whitlock — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 01:21:29 GMT

Can this please be clarified by Cisco?
We are provisioning switches with DNAC, but we are not doing SD-Access.
It appears as though we cannot move a switch from one site to another if it has been claimed via PnP and provisioned with DNAC.
For switches that have ONLY been discovered by DNAC, we appear to be able to move the switch...

Re: Move / Relocate device

Preston Chilcote — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 23:10:22 GMT

@Julien Whitlock What you are observing is the expected behavior currently. I think it would be nice to be able to move devices to other sites even if they have been provisioned. I suggest opening a Make a Wish via the Catalyst Center help menu to make the product managers aware of this need.

Re: Move / Relocate device

chris.gruber — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 04:09:43 GMT

My experience is that if a devices is simply assigned to a site I can move it, but once it is provisioned the option is grayed out.

Re: Move / Relocate device

durd842 — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 15:24:55 GMT

My experience as well with CATC2.3.7.5.
If I delete a device from inventory and do not clear the pushed configuration, and then re-add the device (either through Add device or Discovery), I can't provision templates as CATC complains that there already are AAA servers and other config configured. Even if I "force" push templates the same fail happens.

Re: Move / Relocate device

Andreas Jaeger — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 08:53:37 GMT

From my view this is a bad design from Cisco if devices cannot be moved without deleting them from inventory.

Re: Move / Relocate device

patoberli — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 10:46:55 GMT

As I had this issue recently myself and this is the first google result when searching for how to move an AP between floors in DNAC, it's actually fairly easy (tested on 2.3.5.6).

Go to inventory, select the AP you want to move (not sure if this would also work with a switch) and select Actions -> Provision -> Provision Device and now here in the first screen you can select the new floor you want to move it to.

Re: Move / Relocate device

Valerio A — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 15:15:18 GMT

Actually still on the version 2.3.7.7 is not possible to move node devices between site locations (Building/Floors) after being provisioned.
I hope this will be implemented in the future versions of DNAC as this is a standard operation in a Campus, expecially given the fact that the Site Hierarchy is a logical representation of the sites only at DNAC level.