Catalyst Center Resource Repository

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• Get Started
• Work with Catalyst Center
• Additional Resources
• Upgrade

This repository will help you optimize resources, reduce spending, and enhance your organization's digital agility with Cisco's powerful Catalyst Center management system that uses AI to connect, secure, and automate network operations. 

Get Started

Here you'll find checklists, guides, compatibility specs, and additional resources you can use to begin the first phase of your setup.

• Start planning your Catalyst Center project - review potential use cases and the prerequisites to getting started 
• Review Catalyst Center Cisco Validated Designs for deployment planning guidance

For hardware customers:

• Review the installation guide for deployment planning details and appliance installation steps
• Learn how to manage your licenses and integrate Catalyst Center with your Cisco Smart Account

For virtual appliance customers:

• Catalyst Center virtual appliance ordering guide
• Catalyst Center for AWS deployment guide
• Catalyst Center for ESXi deployment guide
• Learn how to manage your licenses and integrate Catalyst Center with your Cisco Smart Account

After completing the installation:

• Configure system settings, such as Device Controllability, Machine Reasoning Engine, Cisco AI Network Analytics, etc.
• Activate High Availability
• Create your Catalyst Center Network Hierarchy
• Configure network settings
• Configure telemetry
• Begin adding network devices to Catalyst Center Inventory and assign them to a site
• Learn more about managing your Inventory

Work with Catalyst Center

Centralize network inventory and infrastructure security management to enable quick software image upgrades to network devices:

• Success Tip: Product Overview and Business Value: Software Image Management 
• Success Tip: Installation / Implementation Best Practices: Software Image Management 
• Learn how to automate your network configuration with Network Profiles
• Build network designs and provision network settings to WLCs, APs, and switches
• Use Plug-n-Play to onboard WLCs, APs, or switches
• Learn how to use the RMA workflow to replace faulty devices
• Review how to manage and perform upgrades with Software Images
• Utilize the Inventory page to view and manage your device inventory

Automate network configurations and provide network operational data to external applications:

• Configure Catalyst Center using APIs or API-based tools
• Troubleshoot network issues using the path trace feature
• Enable issue notifications

Assure the network, client, and application experience for improved forensic troubleshooting:

• Catalyst Center Assurance overview
• Monitor and troubleshoot the overall enterprise health
• Monitor and troubleshoot network health
• Monitor and troubleshoot client health
• Monitor and troubleshoot application health
• Work with 3D Maps
• Review and resolve open issues
• Community post: Utilize Cisco Catalyst Center Assurance dashboards

Software-defined access:

• Cisco SD-Access Solution Design Guide
• Integrate with ISE with Catalyst Center
• Provision a LAN underlay
• Provision fabric networks
• Monitor and Troubleshoot SD-Access Health

Additional Resources

• Catalyst Center discussion forum
• Catalyst Center training videos
• Catalyst Center Ask the Experts sessions

Upgrade

Learn about new software availability, features, and how to plan for your upgrade.

• Upgrade your Catalyst Center (current recommended release is 2.3.5.6)