Welcome to the Catalyst Center Expert Insights Community! This dedicated page is your gateway to a transformative journey from beginner to expert. Here, you'll explore essential foundational topics, enhance your understanding with intermediate material, and delve into advanced topics and cross-domain integration to master comprehensive use cases.
Foundation topics
The Foundation Series offers a roadmap for Catalyst Center lifecycle management, encompassing exploration of use cases, varied installation methods, configuration basics, validating system health and maintaining SW version compliance.
Register for one or more webinars to attend.
Date: 03 October, 2024
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM UTC+1
Session Details: Join us to discover business value of catalyst center, demonstrating real customer stories and showcasing variety of use cases that fulfils ever-increasing IT demands.
Session Recording
Date: 10 October, 2024
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM UTC+1
Session Details: Explore Catalyst Center various installation options available to suit your specific needs. Join us to learn about the initial setup and configuration best practices to ensure optimal performance.
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Date: 17 October, 2024
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM UTC+1
Session Details: Cisco Catalyst Center is replacing Prime-Infrastructure so the time to migrate is now! Join us to learn more on various tools, tips and best practices that will equip you with knowledge to successfully migrate.
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Date: 24 October, 2024
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM UTC+1
Session Details: Learn more about the latest Catalyst Center version and stay ahead of the IT curve with new assurance and automation features, as well as best practices to perform a smooth upgrade.
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Please find below some links to additional useful resources that will help you with your Catalyst Center management:
Cisco Catalyst Center 2.3.7 Data Sheet
Cisco Catalyst Center 2.3.7 Release Overview Release Announcement
Cisco Catalyst Center Compatibility Information
Cisco Catalyst Center 2.3.7.x on ESXi Deployment Guide
Cisco DNA Center 2.3.5 on AWS Deployment Guide
Validated Design: Cisco Catalyst Center on AWS
Catalyst Center Upgrade Guide
Prime to Catalyst Center Readiness Assessment Tool (PDART)
Catalyst Center Virtual Airgap
Intermediate topics
The intermediate series highlights strategies for leveraging diverse Catalyst Center workflows and tools to streamline your operations, automate daily tasks, and enhance both network performance and user experience, all supported by predictive AI insights and tools within Catalyst Center.
Register for one or more webinars to attend.
Date: 07 November, 2024
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM UTC+1
Session Details: Leverage Catalyst Center to streamline network operations. In this session, you’ll gain the resources and practices to automate your daily tasks, starting with defining network standards, scaling with reusable templates, and expanding device onboarding through plug-and-play functionality.
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Date: 14 November, 2024
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM UTC+1
Session Details: Leverage Catalyst Center to maintain a consistent and secure infrastructure by easily spotting network devices that don’t meet your standards. Harness the right resources to effectively remediate any compliance violations, safeguarding your network's integrity.
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Date: 26 November, 2024
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM UTC+1
Session Details: Explore Catalyst Center capabilities to manage your wireless infrastructure (Brownfield/Greenfield).
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Date: 28 November, 2024
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM UTC+1
Session Details: Dive in and discover comprehensive assurance dashboards, master advanced troubleshooting tools, get tips and tricks and telemetry best practices.
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Date: 05 December, 2024
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM UTC+1
Session Details: Unleash the power of Catalyst Center AI to proactively optimize network performance and user experience.
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Advanced topics
The advanced series elevates this further by integrating Catalyst Center with your ecosystem and facilitating cross-domain integration with Cisco products to achieve comprehensive use cases and business outcomes.
Date: 21 November, 2024
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM UTC+1
Session Details: Integrating with Cisco Spaces leveraging it real to insights to ensure safe, smart and seamless workplace , we will focus on the initial setup for Cisco Spaces and the use cases that you can benefit from if you have Cisco Spaces Extend licenses (included with your Wireless DNA Advantage licenses).
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