plug and play

September 20, 2019

DEVELOPER

Fundamentals of Cisco DNA Center Plug-and-Play – Day 0 Networking

Background Network Plug-and-Play allows switches, routers, and wireless access points to be on-boarded to the network.  An agent in the device, connects to Cisco DNA center and downloads the required software and device configuration. In order for this to be truly zero-touch, a network connection is…

December 15, 2018

SMALL BUSINESS

Weekly Wrap: Cisco Live 2018

The Holidays are upon us. I hope you have at least started on the gift acquisition project. Remember, shop small… Last week we were in Cancun for Cisco Live Latin America. It was an amazing experience. Every day we had various scheduled and unscheduled partner meetings. It was good to put a fa…

July 19, 2018

DEVELOPER

See How to Use the Plug and Play API in DNA Center – Part 2

Continuing the PnP story… The first blog in this series gave an overview of network Plug and Play (PnP) and how it has evolved in DNA Center.   It showed a very simple workflow to provision a device with a configuration template with a variable called “hostname”. One of my customers had a requ…