Cisco 9200/9300 Onboarding to Meraki Dashboard Monitoring

[Basha1996]

Hello Team,

We support a customer network who has different SDWAN Solution, however they have multiple Cisco 9300/9200 switches in their Network. I could see that we can onboard Cisco Cat 9K switches to Meraki dashboard monitoring, however I need to know to add these Cat 9K switches to dashboard monitoring do the customer need to purchase any license or to pay for Meraki as they don't have any Meraki devices just Cisco 9K Switches.

Thanks in advance.

[thaack]

Cloud Monitoring for Catalyst Onboarding documentation

To utilize Cloud Monitoring, all Catalyst switches that will be added to the dashboard must have an active DNA Essentials or DNA Advantage license

[Basha1996]

Thanks for the update. The switches do have the license and I have checked the eligible details in meraki documentation. In order to use the Meraki dashboard account, do we need pay additionally to Meraki support.

[aleabrahao]

Eligible Catalyst Devices

Cloud monitoring for Catalyst currently supports the following hardware and software:

• Catalyst 9200 series switches (including 9200L and 9200CX models).

• Catalyst 9300 series switches (including 9300L and 9300X models).

• Catalyst 9500 series switches.

• The full list of supported Catalyst switches is available at Supported Catalyst 9000 Series Switches (Cloud Monitoring).

• IOS-XE 17.3 - 17.10.1 (if an upgrade is needed, download is available at Cisco Software Downloads page).

https://documentation.meraki.com/Cloud_Monitoring_for_Catalyst/Onboarding/Cloud_Monitoring_for_Catalyst_Onboarding_Guide

[aleabrahao]

To utilize Cloud Monitoring, all Catalyst switches that will be added to the dashboard must have an active DNA Essentials or DNA Advantage license. From there, dashboard will configure the necessary services on your Catalyst device to enable cloud monitoring. See Cloud Monitoring Detailed Device Configurations for additional details.

[Basha1996]

Thanks for the update. The switches do have the license and I have checked the eligible details in meraki documentation. In order to use the Meraki dashboard account, do we need pay additionally to Meraki support.

[aleabrahao · Accepted solution]

Nope

[Basha1996]

Thank you so much, We will try creating a dashboard account and add one switch into monitoring. Will let you know how it goes.

[MerakiGnome]

Hi @Basha1996 , should you wish to take it one step further into Management mode then this information will help:

https://meraki.cisco.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/quick-start-migrating-switching-DNA-management-mode-to-meraki-management-mode-1.pdf

[Basha1996]

Hi @DarrenOC Thanks for sharing documentation, we will try this one too.