Contents
Before we get into the Top 10 list, I would like to highlight a couple of new articles that have come out recently:
New Cisco SD-Access Community Articles
Cisco Software-Defined Access for Airports
This Deployment guide provides guidance for deploying SD-Access in an Airport network. It is a companion to the associated design and deployment guides for enterprise networks, which provide guidance in how to deploy the most common implementations of SD-Access...
Cisco SD-Access for Large Enterprise and Government
Cisco SD-Access is a software application running on Cisco DNA Center that helps automate and secure enterprise networks at scale. This whitepaper provides design guidance for the large enterprise space, focusing on utilizing the new innovations in Cisco SD-Access to create automated simple, secure, scalable, and flexible networks...
Cisco SD-Access for Manufacturing Vertical
This whitepaper provides design guidance for the factories and production facilities focusing on utilizing the innovations in Cisco DNA Center and SD-Access to create simple, secure, and flexible production networks for Operational Technology (OT) and how Cisco DNA Center and Cisco SD-Access help implement and integrate OT and IT Networks...
Cisco Software-Defined Access Fabric Zones play a role in enhancing network segmentation and security. Fabric Zones were introduced in Catalyst Center (formerly known as Cisco DNA Center) version 2.2.3 and refer to logical groupings of network devices within an SD-Access Fabric Site...
Layer 2 Virtual Networks with Gateway Outside of Fabric
The Layer 2 Virtual Network service enables Cisco's SD-Access to provide pure Layer 2 connectivity between wired, wireless, and virtual endpoints with no Layer 3 Anycast Gateway required in the Fabric Site....
Top 10 Cisco SD-Access Community Articles
The document covers the components of Multicast forwarding on SD-Access fabric and the configuration pushed to the network devices. The document highlights the show commands and their outputs which will help in basic understanding and troubleshooting of multicast on fabric...
2. Cisco SD-Access Fabric Resources
One stop shop for the Start of your SD-Access journey, Design, Deployment, Integration, and Learning resources.
3. Cisco SDA Design Guidance and Best Practices
Redirect posting for the Cisco SD-Access Solution Design Guide and the Cisco DNA Center & ISE Management Infrastructure Deployment Guide
4. How to do host on-boarding in SD-Access (SDA)
Host on-boarding in SD-Access enables the attachment of endpoints to the fabric nodes. The host on-boarding workflow allows you to authenticate, classify and assign an endpoint to a scalable group, and then associate to an IP pool and virtual network...
5. Cisco SD-Access Integration with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
This integration will enable customers to use common policies across Cisco SD-Access and Cisco ACI essentially to simplify policy management for customers using Cisco technology in different operational domains. We will be able to maintain common policy management across domains by providing common groups for different domain management applications to leverage. we will have consistent security policy groups in Cisco SD-Access (SDA) and ACI domains...
6. Cisco SD-Access Layer 2 Flooding
Layer 2 flooding can be used to forward broadcasts for certain traffic and application types which may require leveraging of Layer 2 connectivity, such as silent hosts, card readers, door locks, etc...
7. LISP fundamentals and Troubleshooting Basics
The Locator Identity Separation Protocol (LISP) is a new routing architecture that creates a new paradigm by splitting the device identity, known as an Endpoint Identifier (EID), and its location, known as its Routing Locator (RLOC), into two different numbering spaces. This capability brings renewed scale and flexibility to the network in a single protocol, enabling the areas of mobility, scalability and security...
8. Cisco SD-Access for Distributed Campus with IP as a Transit
Cisco DNA Center gives us the flexibility to configure multiple fabric sites and connect them using different Transits. In this paper, we are going to talk about how we can connect multiple fabric sites using IP as a transit and how can we carry SGTs over IP Transit...
9. Cisco ISE configuration for onboarding hosts in Cisco SD-Access
This document will provide details of Cisco ISE configurations for customers who are onboarding wired and wireless users via 802.1x in the Cisco SD-Access solution. This document also covers configuration in Cisco ISE for onboarding wired/wireless Guest users in Cisco SD-Access fabric...
10. How to connect IoT Extended Nodes in SD-Access (SDA) with Cisco DNAC
Starting from Cisco SD-Access 1.3, Extended Node is supported connected to Fabric Edge Nodes. Clients via Port Channel configuration. There has been lot of serviceability enhancements like IP Address change management and reload support. In the backend Autoconf has been enabled for Host-onboarding...
Helpful Resources
Cisco SD-Access Solution Design Guide
Cisco SD-Access Fabric Resources
Cisco SD-Access YouTube Channel
Cisco SD-Access Compatibility Matrix
